Jekyll Subscriber Only

Monetize your Jekyll site with paid subscriber-only content.

Subscriber Only allows you to monetize your Jekyll site with paid subscriptions. Make selected content available only to paid subscribers by adding a single line to the post's front matter. Leave subscriptions, payment processing and access control to us and focus solely on making great content. Go to https://subscriber-only.com for more details.

First, you need to sign up on Subscriber Only -- it's easy, it takes 10 minutes!

Then, add the jekyll-subscriber_only gem to your application's Gemfile, in the jekyll_plugins group. Make sure it comes after jekyll-feed, if you're using it:

group :jekyll_plugins do
  # gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.12"
  gem "jekyll-subscriber_only"
end

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Finally, copy your tokens to your site's _config.yml:

subscriber_only:
  public_token: MY_PUBLIC_TOKEN
  secret_token: MY_SECRET_TOKEN

If you want to make a particular post subscriber-only, add subscriber_only: true to the post's front matter:

layout: post
title: My premium post
subscriber_only: true

That's it!

Note that your posts will only be paywalled when building with JEKYLL_ENV=production. I.e.

$ JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/subscriber-only/jekyll-subscriber_only.