Sell premium archives with the Timewall add-on
Consider selling premium access to your archives with a timewall.
Our Timewall add-on automatically moves your articles and posts behind the paywall once they reach a certain age, such as 90 days, 6 months or 1 year. Only subscribers on levels you choose can read archived content. This is perfect if your older content has lasting value.
After installing the add-on, follow the steps below to set it up.
1. Set your archive messages
Go to Leaky Paywall > Settings > General and click on Content Auto Archiver.
Set a Subscribe or Login Message for visitors who are not logged in. This replaces the default Leaky Paywall subscribe message on archived content.
Set an Upgrade Message for subscribers who are logged in but whose level does not include archived content.
Both messages can use {{SUBSCRIBE_LOGIN_URL}}, which links to your subscribe page. {{LOGIN_URL}} and {{MY_ACCOUNT_URL}} also work if you want to link to your login or My Account page instead.
2. Choose what gets archived and when
Under Timewall Settings, click Add New Expiration and choose the post type to archive, for example Posts or Articles.
Then set how long content stays open after it is published, in days, weeks, months or years. Once a post passes that age, it is archived and behind the paywall. You can add one expiration for each post type.
3. Choose which levels can read archived content
Go to Leaky Paywall > Settings > Subscriptions and open a subscription level. Check Archived Content to let subscribers of that level read archived content. Levels without it see your Upgrade Message on archived posts.
Good to know
- Keeping some older content free: posts in the categories and tags you exclude from Leaky Paywall restrictions are never archived. So are posts whose Leaky Paywall visibility setting is "always be visible to", or "only and always be visible to", for the reader's level.
- Administrators and other roles allowed to bypass the paywall can always read archived content.
- Using List Builder: from Timewall version 3.5.5, archived posts show your archive message instead of the List Builder signup. On earlier versions, the List Builder signup appears on archived posts in place of your message. Update to 3.5.5 or later if that is what you are seeing.