Excalibur Paywall
Excalibur is the best and most affordable content monetization software on the market. Easiest plugin to configure with the most features.
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Excalibur Paywall shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Is rated 5/5 and was last updated 7 years ago, and scores 28/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (<10 active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 7 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 5.2 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
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Rankings
Where Excalibur Paywall stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| content | >100 |
| content monetization | >100 |
| paid content | >100 |
| paywall | >100 |
| premium content | >100 |
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 2 reviews
About Excalibur Paywall
From the official readme · v1.0.0Description
Excalibur is a service that enables you to start selling your content with a free plugin that is easy to install and setup. It helps businesses monetize, manage and grow revenue into digital world. We offer a game changing highly configurable & independent platform. It is a safe and secure paywall with all the required flexibility that a digital publisher expects at the fraction of the cost of other vendors.
Excalibur is the best way to drive revenue on your site through paid subscriptions. Your visitors can either pay for individual pieces of content or purchase subscription access to your entire site. This model has been very beneficial for companies like NY Times and it could be for you too.
Any site, large or small, can use Excalibur to easily build a new revenue stream from paid content. We’ve seen that a simple paid content plan can quickly surpass what you can earn from advertising,
even if you’re only selling access to a small percentage of your site’s content. As both audiences and business models change over time, using a provider with a flexible and easily extensible architecture will be invaluable. Allowing you to experiment with new content offering and settings in the future is what we developed. We have a demo page you can check out here: https://lightbox.astroexcalibur.com/lightbox/demo/pages/sidebar-left.html
Some of the great features that are available to all clients:
- Options to adjust meter limit on the fly.
- Ip exclusion (single or range allowed with limitations) to allow free access to staff or licensing your content
- Customer dashboard where they can update their passwords, information.
- Functionality to enable/disable paywall
- Social media tracking
- Cookie-less browser content protection
- Incognito mode
- Ad Blocker/Web and referral traffic statistic
- Customer Service interface for managing customer accounts to issue refunds.
- IOS/Android SDK to power content protection for you mobile apps.
Excalibur plugin can also be used as donation tool, or user management feature to help your site keeps track of customers. This flexibility can allow you to focus on your business
and let us handle users and payments logic for you.
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins->Add New and either upload Excalibur (if you’ve already downloaded the plugin), or search for “Excalibur” in WordPress plugins, then simply click “install”.
Before you enable Excalibur, you will need to contact us so that we set you up with an account for you to log into the configuration dashboard. Once you are configured, you will be able to add your Site Token ID (found in your Excalibur account) to the Paywall plugin settings.
REQUIREMENTS
None
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FAQ
Excalibur Paywall: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 3, 2026
Is Excalibur Paywall free?
Yes. Excalibur Paywall is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Excalibur Paywall safe to use in 2026?
Excalibur Paywall shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Is rated 5/5 and was last updated 7 years ago, and scores 28/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Excalibur Paywall?
Excalibur Paywall is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 1,908 times since it launched in October 2017. It was downloaded 72 times in the last 30 days.
Does Excalibur Paywall work with WordPress 7.1?
Excalibur Paywall is officially tested up to WordPress 5.2.28, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Excalibur Paywall last updated?
The latest version, 1.0.0, was released on June 15, 2019 (7 years ago).
Who makes Excalibur Paywall?
Excalibur Paywall is developed and maintained by cpexcalibur.
What are the best alternatives to Excalibur Paywall?
The most popular alternatives to Excalibur Paywall are One Click Demo Import (1M+ installs), Advanced Excerpt (80K+ installs) and Rara One Click Demo Import (20K+ installs).
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