One access gate
A single decision — “may this request see post N?” — powers every surface. New surfaces are thin adapters, never their own logic, so nothing forgets to strip.
Features
Everything the paywall does
Mapped to real capabilities — no vaporware. USDC only, on Base and Solana. Items marked Pro need a Pro license; everything else is in the free plugin.
Server-side enforcement
The gate is the product. Every surface routes through one server-side check, so paid content is never in the bytes you send.
Stripped, not hidden
The locked body is removed from the response server-side. No display:none, no blur overlay, no JS gate. Inspect-element and reader mode see the teaser only.
Payment-bound access grants
Access is granted only after a facilitator confirms settlement — bound to the exact payment, replay-proof, and idempotent per payment.
Cache-safe
Per-visitor paywalled responses send Cache-Control: private, no-store so a payer's unlocked page is never cached and re-served to someone else.
Per-surface protection
WordPress leaks paid content through more than just the post body. The gate covers them all.
Posts & pages
Whole-post and whole-page paywall on the front-end render, including block content.
paywall_full_post Partial paywall shortcode
Wrap a span in [x402_gate]…[/x402_gate] to lock the rest of an article mid-way. Removed at an early filter priority so it never reaches HTML.
paywall_shortcode_partial REST API
content.rendered and excerpt.rendered are blocked or blanked for the unpaid, including ?_embed subrequests.
protect_rest_api RSS / Atom feeds
Feed and comment-feed content is stripped so subscribers can't read paid posts in a reader.
protect_feeds oEmbed, search & sitemaps
Excerpts, embeds, search snippets and (optionally) sitemap URLs respect the gate.
protect_oembed Per-surface control matrix Pro
Choose block / allow-with-payment / allow for each surface individually.
surface_matrix AI crawlers: block or charge
The differentiator no membership plugin has — content that machines can pay for.
Block AI scrapers by default
A maintained, filterable list (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, CCBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, Bytespider, Amazonbot and more) is blocked from paid content with a 403/402 and no body.
block_ai_agents Pay-per-crawl (HTTP 402) Pro
Let a verified agent present a settled x402 v2 payment to pay for a page — per-surface opt-in, off by default. Because it follows the standard x402 payment headers, any x402-compatible agent or crawler can pay, not just our bundled JS.
agent_payment robots.txt hints
A Disallow hint for paid paths complements the hard server-side block.
Payments & earnings
USDC settles straight to your wallet the moment content is paid for — no processor, no custody.
USDC on Base and Solana
Base and Solana (plus Base Sepolia and Solana Devnet testnets). Atomic-unit amounts, no floats, no volatile coins.
All networks at once Pro
Offer readers a choice of both chains simultaneously.
all_networks_simultaneously Per-post earnings
Authors and admins see settled payment counts and USDC totals for each post they own.
Design & operations
Make the paywall yours and keep an audit trail.
Custom paywall design Pro
Override the teaser/pay UI with your own HTML + CSS (sanitized to a curated allowlist). The design is customizable; the gate is not — custom markup can never contain the paid body.
custom_design Theme-friendly default
The bundled template inherits your theme's typography and colors out of the box on Free.
Advanced audit log Pro
Extended, exportable log of payments and access grants.
audit_log_advanced Rate limiting & idempotency
Built-in rate limiter and idempotent grant handling protect settlement endpoints.
See it
Screens & admin
Placeholder slots — the owner drops real screenshots here.
See the full feature split
The pricing page lays out exactly what's Free vs Pro, row by row.