Best Crowdfunding Solutions for WordPress

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Crowdfunding websites Kickstarter and Indiegogo have become really popular in recent years, with many projects from all areas being born through the funding obtaining from these websites. What if you want to obtain funding for your own project? What are your options?
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Crowdfunding websites KickStarter and Indiegogo have become really popular in recent years, with many projects from all areas being born through the funding obtaining from these websites.

What if you want to obtain funding for your own project? What are your options?

Apart from signing up with Kickstarter or Indiegogo, you also have the option to use WordPress plugins to host the crowdfunding process on your own site.

Here are the best plugins I’ve found for that.

IgnitionDeck

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IgnitionDeck is the most complete and well-rounded WordPress crowdfunding plugin, and it now also comes with a specially-tailored theme you can use for crowdfunding projects. It integrates with all your favourite services, as the MakerKit offers multiple extensions, payment gateways, and campaign tools.

Download IgnitionDeck

CrowdFunding WordPress Plugin

WordPress › Crowdfunding by Astoundify « WordPress Plugins

Crowdfunding by Astoundify is a funding platform for WordPress. An extension that seamlessly integrates with Easy Digital Downloads, the Crowdfunding plugin lets you crowd source everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology.

“Backers” can pledge specified amounts of money towards a project and receive rewards for their contributions. Pledge amounts are only collected if a campaign reaches its goal in the time specified.

Run your own crowdfunding website for anything you can imagine.

Download the CrowdFunding WordPress Plugin

Fundify Theme for Crowdsourcing

fundify theme

Fundify is the first WordPress theme that lets you create your own crowdfunding website. If you have wanted a site like KickStarter or Indiegogo for your own projects, now you can have one using Fundify, the crowdfunding theme for WordPress.

Download Fundify theme

Franklin WordPress Crowdfunding Theme

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Franklin is a WordPress crowdfunding theme, lovingly crafted from the ground up to be 100% responsive, elegant and bloat-free.

Built on top of Easy Digital Downloads and Crowdfunding by Astoundify, Franklin gives you the ability to crowdfund your latest project in style. Franklin is designed to work both for single-campaign websites and community oriented crowdfunding websites.

Note: Franklin requires Easy Digital Downloads and Crowdfunding by Astoundify for its crowdfunding features.

Features

  • Supports Crowdfunding by Astoundify and Easy Digital Downloads
  • Single campaign OR community campaigns
  • 100% responsive design, built with a mobile-first approach
  • Crisp retina graphics
  • Unlimited colours
  • 6 preset colour palettes
  • 8 optional textures, and the ability to load your own
  • 5 custom widgets: Campaign Updates, Campaign Video, Campaign Pledge Levels, Campaign Backers, Sofa Posts
  • Widgetized campaign page
  • Full-featured blog, with support for every post format: video, gallery, image, audio, aside, status, chat, link, quote
  • Allow anonymous backers
  • Contact page template
  • Supports Ninja Forms
  • Demo content included
  • Multilingual ready (.mo/.po files included)

Download Franklin WordPress Crowdfunding Theme

What do you think about these plugins/themes? Have you used crowdfunding for your projects?

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Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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6 Responses

  1. Another good solution is using Thrinacia. They have a Orion WordPress plugin that comes with a full website UI.

  2. Ignitiondeck is very good…buti f it does not turn multilingual-ready, soon it will stop being relevant and suitable for most global projects out there. Any news on this front that I might have missed? Thanks

  3. I have used two external crowdfunding sites this year and researched many others. Had I known about these plug-ins the chances are I would have used one of them and saved myself a lot of bother. Neither of the sites I’ve used met up with my expectations – or their claims – and few of the many, many others out there are really geared to individual needs, more to a business plan which works for the owners and not their customers.

    Perhaps, next time, I will look at hosting the campaign on my own site rather than farming it out to someone else and, perhaps, save a lot of the bother and the expense too.

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