In January I published some code that connects a Buttondown newsletter to Eleventy to create a Patreon-like "soft paywall" for your free and paying Buttondown subscribers and encourage more subscriptions. Now you can do the same for Wordpress, with this WP Buttondown plugin.
Eleventy is fantastic and still my current go-to for making websites, but ya gotta be pretty nerdy, love to write JavaScript, and know your way around a terminal. As of this year around 43% of websites are Wordpress sites, and the process for making plugins is well-documented, so it was sort of a no-brainer. Creating the plugin settings dashboard was the most complex part.
Anyway, check it out here!
GitHub - scottandrewlepera/wordpress-buttondown-plugin: Connect your Buttondown newsletter to your Wordpress website and encourage subscriptions with subscribers-only content.
Connect your Buttondown newsletter to your Wordpress website and encourage subscriptions with subscribers-only content. - scottandrewlepera/wordpress-buttondown-plugin
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PS: there's a new version of the Eleventy/Buttondown code that adds the ability to put whole pages behind the subscribers-only gate. Eventually this will work its way into the Wordpress plugin, but I have other priorities.
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