Finally, we are here! After such a long development stage, WPB-PAYPAL reaches its awaited 1.0 release. This highly anticipated software is finally done. None of this would ever have been possible without the John Simeonidis [Don’t tell me that I did not mention you ].

General working features

• The user registers normally on your blog, and after is asked to make payment for ammount specified in the configuration panel of WPB-PAYPAL.
• The user must register with same email as his paypal account [this is for verification purposes] after the user made the payment he will receive confirmation email [administrator also getting confirmation email] and he can login normally into your blog
• For the moment you must use any of the available free plugins to provide some categories of your blog only to registered and logged in users
• WPB-PAYPAL emails you when the new payment has been proccessed or if there are any pending payments
• WPB-PAYPAL email reminders to buyers to reminding to make their payments.
• User’s account expire after X months [configure that on WPB-PAYPAL options tab] . User account becomes enabled again after payment is made.
• Plugin will change your default Wordpress installation to a full members only site and only the registered users will be able to get access to the site and potentially the download area.
• Uses automatic PAYPAL payment and user account Activation and Deactivation if the Registration Period Expires!
• Can be used for many web applications and its one of the first for the Wordpress CMS/Blog System.

I really don’t know what to say about this. I think the cost is too great for what it does, but I think that there is a market for pay-to-use plugins for WordPress, especially for things expanding WordPress into the e-commerce realm. I still would love to know more about the plugin and about anyone interested in the plugin.

One other thing that killed me was reading:

After buying the software once, it is only 10 USD per upgrade as newer versions are released

I guess we wait and see what happens with such things.