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Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin

A free, fast, and friendly way to accept donations and memberships (recurring payments) from your visitors.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version4.4.10
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 3.0.1 · PHP 5.2
Directory statusactive
Last directory update24 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations6K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.8 / 5 from 18 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin version 4.4.10 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

The Buy Me a Coffee WordPress plugin makes it easier for you to accept donations from your blog, website, or project visitors and encourages them to become your paid supporters.

It takes just a few minutes to setup the plugin and to place your Buy Me a Coffee buttons or widgets anywhere on your site. The widget allows your supporters to make payments then and there without having to leave your site, and the button takes them directly to your BMC page from where you can accept one-off donations as well as sell extras and memberships (yearly/monthly) to your visitors.

Create your free page at Buy Me a Coffee in just a few minutes and link your Stripe or Bank account to start receiving donations via credit cards, debit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay options. So, add a Buy Me a Coffee widget/button to accept direct payments from your website visitors, without having to wait for your ads/affiliate revenue to come in.

BMC is used by 200,000+ creators online to accept donations as well as sell memberships, making it the number one patreon alternative. Whether you’re creating: videos, images, podcasts, or original songs you can share them exclusively via the locked posts option, to which only paid members will have access to.

Buy Me a Coffee is ultimately a free fast and friendly way for creators to accept donations from their audience. Here’s how our creator Alex Tech describes Buy Me a Coffee to be.

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Plugin tags

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  • apple pay
  • buy me a coffee
  • donate plugin
  • donation
  • members
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.0.1 · PHP 5.2
Update activity24 Aug 20262mo ago

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