Set Up Memberships and Paywalls on Your Blog (No Plugin)

Paywalls and paid memberships usually mean a pile of plugins, a payment processor to wrestle with, and a weekend you'll never get back. On VeloCMS, they're already built in. I'll create a membership tier, lock a post behind it, and show you exactly what your reader sees when they subscribe.

Start under Settings, then Membership. I'll add a new tier — call it Studio Members, nine dollars a month, plus a discounted yearly price if you want one. That's the whole setup: a name, a price, done. No shortcodes anywhere.

One honest detail — the money goes straight to you, not through us. So you connect your own Stripe account right here. Your payouts, your customer list, your terms. VeloCMS just handles the plumbing between your blog and the checkout.

Now the paywall itself. Open any post, open its settings, and flip visibility from Public to Paid members. Free readers get a preview and an invitation to join; members get the whole thing. That's it — no plugin, no code.

Here's your reader's side. They land on the locked post, read the free preview, and hit a clean subscribe wall with your tier and your price — right on your own site, in your own theme, not some third-party checkout that looks nothing like you.

Readers sign in with a magic link — no password to forget — and the moment they're a member, the post unlocks and stays unlocked across your whole site. That's a real membership business, running on your blog.

Memberships, paywalls, and reader logins — all built in, no plugins to maintain. Set yours up at velocms dot org.