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LoveShack

The ultimate self-hosted 🏠 micro-publishing theme for creators 🧑‍🎨 – Newsletters ✉️, paid subscriptions 💰 and a direct relationship with your audience 🫂 without the middlemen 👨‍💼

Publishing

Activity stream

Posts, status updates, images, and videos in one stream on your homepage, newest first.

Short and long form

Quick status updates sit next to classic long-form posts, each with its own archive.

Markdown editing

Write stream posts in Markdown with a live preview and Markdown-aware teasers.

Link previews

Links in status updates turn into preview cards with title, image, and domain.

Reactions

Readers react to posts with emoji, right below the post.

Import your archive

Bring your posts over from Twitter/X and Ghost exports.

Subscribers and newsletters

Passwordless sign-in

Subscribers sign up and sign in with a one-time email link. No passwords to forget.

Email digests

New posts arrive by email instantly, daily, weekly, or monthly, as each subscriber prefers.

Private RSS feeds

Every subscriber gets a personal feed with exactly the posts their tier can read.

Gated content

Reserve posts for subscribers or paid tiers and show everyone else a teaser.

Emails you design

Edit every email in the Customizer with a live preview and test sends.

Spam protection

Built-in honeypot and timing checks, with ALTCHA support for stronger protection.

Paid subscriptions

Stripe and Mollie

Take payments with Stripe, Mollie, or both. Subscribers choose at checkout.

Tiers in WordPress

Create tiers with monthly and yearly prices in Loveshack. Stripe is kept in sync.

Discounts

Codes or automatic offers for one payment, a number of periods, or forever.

Self-service

Subscribers upgrade, downgrade, cancel, resume, and change their payment method on your site.

Receipts and grace periods

Receipts for every payment, and access continues while a failed renewal gets fixed.

Friends & Family

Give people free access by hand, with an optional end date.

IndieWeb and fediverse

ActivityPub

Your site becomes followable from Mastodon and the fediverse. Paid posts stay private.

IndieWeb markup

Microformats throughout, ready for the IndieWeb plugin suite.

You own it

Your posts, subscribers, and payments live in your own WordPress, not on a platform.

Running your site

Dashboard and analytics

Subscribers, followers, recurring revenue, and growth at a glance.

One-click updates

Update Loveshack from the Dashboard, with stable, beta, and alpha channels.

Light and dark

A dark and a light look that follow your visitors’ system setting.

Creator

Recurring

€5.00 / month

A creator subscription grants theme access with GPL license.

Theme access (perpetual license)
Exclusive content

Patron

Recurring

€10.00 / month

Patron grants theme access with GPL license and complimentary plugins.

Theme access (perpetual license)
Exclusive content
Typefully plugin