Unlock Protocol

Unlock is a protocol for memberships which lets any creator monetize their content in a permissionless way.

You can try a demo on this site where the content of the post changes on whether the visitor is a member or not.

In order to become members, visitors need to be using a web3 enabled wallet such as MetaMask or a web browser with an embeded wallet, such as Opera. They also need a balance of crypto-currency in order to purchase the memberships.

Getting Started

If you’d like to add a lock to your site, start by deploying your first lock.

While the lock is deploying you should download this plugin from the WordPress site. Then, from the administration of your WordPress.org website, in the Plugins section, click on the Add New button and then on the Upload Plugin button to upload the plugin.

Note: To allow new users to log in using their Ethereum wallet with a single click, make sure that Settings > General > Anyone can register (for single sites) or Network Settings > Allow new registrations > User accounts may be registered (for multisites) is enabled. Your existing users can link their wallets to their WordPress user account regardless of this setting.

Writing locked stories

The plugin provides you with “Block” which can be used in the Gutenberg Editor, for posts and pages.

Unlock Protocol: This block is used to add a lock(s) to the content inside the page/post. To add the block inside the page/post please follow the below steps:

1. Click on Post -> Add New
2. To add a block you just need to click on “+” in the editor.
3. Enter Unlock Protocol in the search.
4. Unlock Protocol block will be shown. Click on the block, the block gets added.
5. You will be able to see block settings on the right side. From block settings, add at least one lock, select the right network and, enter its address.

Once your page or post includes the content you need, you can preview its content like any other WordPress post or page. We recommend the use of a web3 wallet which supports multiple accounts so that you can easily toggle between accounts which are already members and accounts which are not members yet!

Contributing

This plugin is, like all of the Unlock code, open source. You’re encouraged to fork it and make any changes you’d like! If you believe these changes would be beneficial to others, we encourage you to also open a Pull Request so that we could add these to the main branch released on the wordpress.org website!

Local Development

To setup local development environment for the plugin using Lando local dev environment, simply clone the repo from GitHub and write

lando start

About live editing, from the assets directory, when editing the main.scss, you can run:

lando npm run start

when editing any block related JS or CSS, use:

lando npm run start:blocks

when editing any admin related JS or CSS:

lando npm run start:admin

It should do the auto reload and provide you with live changes.

Publishing the plugin

In order to update the plugin, check out the current subversion state with

svn co  https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/unlock-protocol

Then, from the GitHub repo clone, inside the assets folder, write

lando npm run release

This will generate a zip file in dist directory, unzip that file and copy the content to trunk directory in svn repo and commit the changes into svn with

svn ci -m "commit message"

Then, tag the new version (replace X and Y!) to release it:

svn cp trunk tags/X.Y
svn ci -m "tagging version X.Y"

Additionnaly, please make sure you tag the version on Github:

git tag -a X.Y -m "tagging version X.Y"
git push origin X.Y

And finally create the release on Github’si UI