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SatoshiPay

by satoshipay · Payments

Adds SatoshiPay to your site, allowing you to charge small amounts for posts, images, audios, videos or downloads using micropayments.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 65 average across 1,092 Payments plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.26, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 15/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2597 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+104% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

51

now · peak 81

5130d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

SatoshiPay · #37388 you WooCommerce PayPal P · #81 Payment Plugins for · #515 Donations via PayPal · #1211

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

5.1Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

7.1y ago

latest release · v1.11

23

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.11 · 7.1y ago2.0 · 7.2y ago1.9 · 7.6y ago1.8 · 7.7y ago1.7 · 7.7y ago1.6 · 7.7y ago1.5 · 7.9y ago1.4 · 7.9y ago1.3 · 7.9y ago1.2 · 7.9y ago1.1 · 8.0y ago1.0 · 8.0y ago0.10 · 8.0y ago0.9 · 8.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.11 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2016-05-27 · 1,376 observations

10Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
1.11
Last updated
7.1y ago
Added
2015-11-14 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4.5
Tested up to
5.2.26
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. worldtravellerxx
    7.7y ago

    I started using SatoshiPay recently and it works really well. I can just add a paywall to my travel blog posts and ask my readers to pay a little amount. I can even sell my travel guides as downloads and collect donations for local charities. I love it!!!

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  2. marcelcure
    7.7y ago

    We run the sketching and watercolour tuition website roisincure.com. Before we installed SatoshiPay 6 months ago, we used Patreon to monetise our content. Patreon was difficult to use for content on our website (easier if you put content on their website) and we had a ton of support issues with people having trouble accessing our content. We never liked asking for patronage anyway – we just wanted to charge a small price for our articles. This was not really possible until SatoshiPay, since making credit card transactions for small payments was really slow and expensive. SatoshiPay works very well for us. At last we can get a fair deal for a small publisher like ourselves. Once the web wallet is topped up, it is just one click to open up an article on our website. It works perfectly. A few times I have contacted their support team – usually because I wanted an enhancement. They always respond within a couple of hours and they are very encouraging, with tips etc. This is the future of small publishing. I thoroughly recommend SatoshiPay.

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  3. bluebirdstuff
    7.7y ago

    I really love how easy it was to implement the plugin, and how well it converts when asking your readers for donations or small payments for certain articles. I’d love to give an extra star for the fact that all this even runs on the blockchain, how cool is that!!

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  4. reneoelke
    10.5y ago

    Finally you can use a simple way Bitcoins in WordPress. Not only as a blog owner, but also as a visitor. In addition, you also get another great Ad Blocker detection.

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  5. kiwizza
    10.6y ago

    finally bitcoin for wordpress When a lot of people like me pay a few satoshis (everybody can afford that!) for good research, maybe these ugly click bate pages turn into real quality content delivering

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  6. tothemoongirl
    10.6y ago

    and it’s so simple. You guys are awesome. I think I’ll even start to post more just of what I think and experience in my daily and professional life. I mean I know that for a lot of people my personal knowledge is helpful and now I even think of making an additional business just out of that. Finally, I hope a lot of websites will get rid of these nasty ads and write some valuable content. When a lot of people like me pay a few satoshis (everybody can afford that!) for good research, maybe these ugly click bate pages turn into real quality content delivering sites. Here is for wishful thinking. Some clever geeks surely will come up with more clever ways. I am looking forward to you to release the option to paywall individual text passages on a single page.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

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Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

French (Canada) 46%
German 20%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-01-30 20+ → 10+ down after 34 days in tier
  2. 2023-12-27 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-12-26 20+ → 10+ down after 284 days in tier
  4. 2023-03-17 30+ → 20+ down after 59 days in tier
  5. 2023-01-17 40+ → 30+ down after 73 days in tier
  6. 2022-11-05 50+ → 40+ down

Competes with

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