Patreon WordPress
Patreon WordPress
Description
Bring Patreon features to your WordPress website and make them work together. You can even easily import your existing Patreon posts and keep your Patreon posts synced to your WP site automatically! Your patron-only content at your WordPress site will encourage your visitors to become your patrons to unlock your content.
You can lock any single post or all of your posts! You can also lock any custom post type. Your visitors can log into your site via Patreon, making it easier for them to use your site in addition to accessing your locked content.
This plugin is developed and maintained by Patreon.
FEATURES FOR CREATORS
- Choose one of your tiers or a minimum pledge amount necessary to access a post or custom post
- All patrons with pledge at or above that minimum tier will be able to access your post
- Alternatively, you can set a minimum pledge amount to see all posts
- Visitors who are not your patrons can click the “Unlock with Patreon” button on the locked post to pledge to you and access content
- Visitors will be automatically redirected to Patreon, pledge to you and come back to your site to original unlocked post
- Plugin will automatically log in Patreon users
- Import your existing Patreon posts, with Video and images
- Sync your Patreon posts as you go
- Choose the post type, category which posts will be synced to
- Choose the author to be used for synced posts
- Your posts will be automatically updated as you add/update/delete your Patreon posts
- Set custom HTML that non-patrons see instead of the post, prompting them to become a patron
- Patreon WordPress is compatible with Paid Memberships Pro – you can gate your content with either plugin
- Patreon pledges are matched with Paid Memberships Pro monthly memberships – works out of the box with no changes
- Any Patreon patron or Paid Memberships Pro member who qualifies for content via either plugin will access content
You can post entirely independently on your WordPress site from your Patreon page. There is no need for WordPress and Patreon posts to correspond to one another in content or in locked status. The choice is up to you as a creator.
Got ideas? Post them on our Patreon WordPress Ideas Thread
FEATURES FOR PATRONS
- This plugin adds a “Unlock with Patreon” button to every post you lock.
- “Unlock with Patreon” takes care of everything: whether they’re not a patron yet, or they need to upgrade their pledge, or if they are already pledging enough, the plugin will guide them through the process and back to your content
FEATURES FOR DEVELOPERS
- Extend this free basic WordPress plugin with your own inter-operable plugins that install side by side.
- Rapidly develop patron-only WordPress features without initial overhead
- Immediately usable by existing Patreon creators running this plugin
Learn more in our developer portal.
PRICING
This plugin is provided by Patreon for free.
Install the Patreon WordPress Plugin
- Install & activate the plugin
- The setup wizard will kick in, helping you to easily connect your WordPress site and Patreon in only two clicks
- That’s it!
Your plugin is now set up and you can start making your posts patron only!
Gating Posts
When posting a new post or editing an existing post (or a custom post type) you will see a dropdown in the right hand column titled “Patreon Level”.
This box shows a dropdown of your Patreon tiers. When you select a Patreon tier and then update the post, visitors will need to be your patrons from that tier level or above to be able to access that post.
To make a locked post public again, just choose “Everyone” from the select box and update your post.
Protecting Videos
It is difficult to protect videos due the intensive bandwidth requirements of hosting video and having to rely on third parties such as Youtube or Vimeo. Youtube allows you to set videos to ‘private’ but Vimeo offers extra controls by only allowing videos to be played on specific domains. Visit this guide to protecting your video content with Vimeo.
Installation
- Install & activate the plugin
- The setup wizard will kick in, helping you to easily connect your WordPress site and Patreon in only two clicks
- That’s it!
Screenshots
An example gated patron-only post
Example permission screen when a site user unlocks a post
Example unlocked patron-only post
Faq
Patreon WordPress works with any theme.
Patreon WordPress should not affect functioning of any of your other plugins. Patreon WordPress sticks to WP coding standards and would play nice with any other plugin that does the same.
Yes, you can use Patreon WordPress side by side with any other membership plugin.
You can easily install and use Patreon WordPress alongside WooCommerce at the same time.
Your patrons do not get charged again if they unlock any post on your site via the ‘Unlock with Patreon’ button. The plugin just checks if they are qualifying patrons, and if so, it lets them access your content.
Not at all – you can post different content totally independently at your site and Patreon.
Nothing will be changed at your site – the plugin will just connect your site to Patreon to allow communication in between your site and Patreon.
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.
Reviews
Poorly coded mess
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This version is stable. Don't buy or try the pro plugin. That plugins code is garbage and it crashes everything.
Works as a start but doesn’t include featured images
By 
I have to go in and manually edit each post as this plugin doesn’t pull in the main image from Patreon. I would expect it to pull the image as a featured image in WP. It does pull in the images from the body of the post which is great. Also seems to use Classic editor instead of blocks / Gutenberg by default, which is not a big deal but also something I update when I go in to edit.
it doesn’t pull videos that are the main part of my Patreon posts either, so I do have to manually embed them in WP. I understand this may be a bigger development task as Patreon supports a number of different video types, but it would be nice to at least have, say, a raw URL link of whatever is in my Patreon posts either so I do t have to keep cross referencing.
It stopped working out of nowhere
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It stopped working on my 2 hostings, and support doesn't provide a solution.
It doesn't work
By 
It has conflicts with UM plugin, making it useless (page/post is visible by any means regardless tier is selected).
Perfect
By 
plugin admin in simple mode access in site! wonderful!
Does What It Needs to do
By 
Works well with a responsive developer. (Note, o)
Very useful
By 
A useful, straightforward plugin
Very basic but works, with a very annoying nag screen 🙁
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Once installed, this plugin will permanently display this nag screen in your WP Admin, no matter how often you dismiss it:
Did Patreon WordPress help your site? Help creators like yourself find out about it by giving us a good rating!
If I find an alternative plugin I'll use that, if only to finally get rid of this nag displaying on top of every page of my WP Admin.
Other than that: very basic plugin, but does what it says. Sync is very, very slow though ...
Not sure I'll ever go Pro on this plugin. Very put off by the constant nag and basic and crude functions of this plugin.
Also very confused about the 2 upgrades and what the actual difference is. Never did get a clear response.
Does the job....slowly
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As far as integrating Patreon and WordPress, it does as the package says, simply and quickly. The problem comes with the post-sync. I don't have many Patreon posts currently, yet it still takes 3-5 manual clicks of the import button to get the latest post to sync, and with each sync taking several minutes to complete/fail, the time ads up quickly.
good and simple plugin
By 
Good extension for WordPress if you want extend and manage your patreon content to your wordpress website!
Changelog
1.9.16
- Fixed: Plugin no longer attempts to fetch tier details when the connection with Patreon’s API is broken, preventing unnecessary
HTTP 401responses - Fixed: Webhook management now stops early if client credentials are invalid, reducing failed API calls
- Fixed: Post sync process no longer retries when app credentials have been marked as invalid, eliminating repeated
401errors - Improved: JavaScript assets now use consistent Unix-style line endings instead of Windows-style carriage returns