Comment posted on Are PayPal 1.4.3 released by Aurimas
ledom> The only thing you can do with this plugin is to have swf files hidden somewhere in your site tree and to add swf into a hidden area of your post. after user pays he can see the url and swf movie . The only disatvantage he will be able to share it with his friends who are not registered as payed users.
I am thinking about extending my plugin to be able to protect any type of wordpress posts. Unfortunatelly for now it can only protect text information.
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- patrick> Are you talking about new user registration form? If so we cannot change it as this is standart new user registration form provided by wp. New user will appear as reader user in your wp blog…
- bobber > I am considering implementing native paypal recurent payment. For now you can use plugins field expiration where you can set number of days till purchase expires. After it expires user is asked to pay again.
- ledom> I validate manualy each user that make a payment … This sentence is not clear for me. This plugin replaces text with login link. After user is logged in it replaces text with paypal button. After user pays paypal pings are-paypal-ipn.php script and provides post id + user id. after this are=paypla-ipn.php enables the content for the user.
- Chuck>
This plugin works like this. User must be registered on the blog to be able to Pay for content. After user is connected and payment is performed and IPN notification packege successfully rEaches your blogs are-paypal_ipn.php script he is exposed with content. In order to view payed content next time user must to log in only. By the way google agent can see the content but it is set not to cache the whole site of yours. - Emile>
Number … Number is one of the fields in PayPal button html form and it travels around. Actually it stays for product number in paypal based e-shops … I’ve added it only because it was possible to add it Are PayPal plugin do not need it to function. It is only plain information field. You can use what ever there it is only for your reference – to make it easier to identify transactions in paypal transaction list and inside your blog administration. Check PayPal IPN documentation for exact purpose of this field in case you want to use it togather with some other external PayPal tools or what ever.
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- FAQ
paypal sends ipn posts to the blog and everything what comes from paypal gets registered in there.
Yes csv or txt export of the data could be a good thing. - FAQ
Content will be hidden if you will have no price for it – no 0, but compleately empty – try to clear it using clear button next to post price. this is my bug I should check if its 0 or empty before sending it to paypal. I will put this to be fixed for next version. - Features
If plugin is activated it ads metatag into header and tells the google to index the content but prevents it from caching. You can check sites header and metatags to understand how it works.
Plugin is also able to detect googlebot and if googlebot comes to the site content is exposed to it as if it was user who purchased the content. As google is not allowed to cache the sites contetn it will never show the content under cached version
So you blog can still be indexed by google your users can find it by keywords residing in a hidden area and they still has to pay for it … - Are PayPal 1.7.7 version was released
try to click the button “restore defaults” or similar (I do not recall the label of the button) under templates. It should be ok. - Are PayPal 1.7.7 version was released
Check generated html for buttons maybe you will notice something unusual. Try to reset button templates if so. Try to identify if this is not due to your paypal account configuration.
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hello are,
sorry for my english, but i have a question
how to use the Number in post price configuration and blog price configuration
what is the utility of this ?
thanks
Comment by emile — September 30, 2008 @ 8:22 am
Emile>
Number … Number is one of the fields in PayPal button html form and it travels around. Actually it stays for product number in paypal based e-shops … I’ve added it only because it was possible to add it Are PayPal plugin do not need it to function. It is only plain information field. You can use what ever there it is only for your reference – to make it easier to identify transactions in paypal transaction list and inside your blog administration. Check PayPal IPN documentation for exact purpose of this field in case you want to use it togather with some other external PayPal tools or what ever.
Comment by Aurimas — September 30, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Hello, I just uploaded the version 1.4.4.
I did a test payment with my own account to see how it works but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Is this plugin integrated with the registration to the site as I had to do to leave comments? Is that the login and password they’ll have to use to get access?
Comment by Chuck — September 30, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
thanks a lot for the quick answer
Comment by emile — October 1, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Chuck>
This plugin works like this. User must be registered on the blog to be able to Pay for content. After user is connected and payment is performed and IPN notification packege successfully rEaches your blogs are-paypal_ipn.php script he is exposed with content. In order to view payed content next time user must to log in only. By the way google agent can see the content but it is set not to cache the whole site of yours.
Comment by Aurimas — October 1, 2008 @ 9:51 am
Hi and thanks for this plugin!
Something I don’t understand, does this plugin need I validate manualy each user that make a payment? IPN is active but on my sandbox acount.
Thanks
Comment by ledom — October 6, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
ledom> I validate manualy each user that make a payment … This sentence is not clear for me. This plugin replaces text with login link. After user is logged in it replaces text with paypal button. After user pays paypal pings are-paypal-ipn.php script and provides post id + user id. after this are=paypla-ipn.php enables the content for the user.
Comment by Aurimas — October 6, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
Ok thanks, you understand my question. It seems I have a problem with the ping, because after I pay (as sandbox user) nothing happens…I’ll verify parameters.
Comment by ledom — October 6, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
Finaly it works fine! Thanks. I made a mistake (activate IPN for per and not biz….). This plugin is really an excellent idéa! Thank you. If I sell something with it i’ll make a donation
Best regards
Comment by ledom — October 6, 2008 @ 6:05 pm
Euhhhh, just another question Aurimas…
I want my users pay to view a flash file (swf), is there any solution with you plugin? Because I don’t want they can see or download the file without to pay, if they can extract the swf url from the html source? thanks for your help.
Comment by ledom — October 6, 2008 @ 9:42 pm
ledom> The only thing you can do with this plugin is to have swf files hidden somewhere in your site tree and to add swf into a hidden area of your post. after user pays he can see the url and swf movie . The only disatvantage he will be able to share it with his friends who are not registered as payed users.
I am thinking about extending my plugin to be able to protect any type of wordpress posts. Unfortunatelly for now it can only protect text information.
Comment by Aurimas — October 7, 2008 @ 10:29 am
Ok. I found a great plugin that may interest you if you want to extend your plugin. It’s drain hole: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/drain-hole/. This excellent plugin give a mirror URL to a file. Access to files can be define from user status. May be it is possible to add paypal check. What do you think about that?
Comment by ledom — October 7, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Are you considering a monthly subscription service option?
Comment by bobber — October 15, 2008 @ 1:27 am
bobber > I am considering implementing native paypal recurent payment. For now you can use plugins field expiration where you can set number of days till purchase expires. After it expires user is asked to pay again.
Comment by Aurimas — October 15, 2008 @ 9:24 am
Hello, I have your plugin, first, congratulations, is too good. Second, i have a question. I want that when a username is new, only enter his name and e-mail. I was trying to modify the plugin but i dont see how.
Comment by patrick — October 30, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
patrick> Are you talking about new user registration form? If so we cannot change it as this is standart new user registration form provided by wp. New user will appear as reader user in your wp blog…
Comment by Aurimas — October 31, 2008 @ 10:41 am