[benecaster_listener_support]

Renders a Listener Support prompt: a Stripe donation form or button, or in link mode a link to your external donation page. No Benecaster account or license is required — available on the WordPress.org version and on all licensed plans. Any podcaster at any plan level can accept one-time listener donations. Per-show settings (suggested amounts, custom amount toggle, thank-you message, donor name and message collection) are configured in the Show Editor under the Listener Support section.

Which settings it uses. On a show page or an episode page, that show’s Listener Support settings and Stripe setup. On every other page, unless you set show_id, the site-wide settings and the site-level Stripe setup — even on a single-show site, so donations from your homepage never move to a show’s own Stripe account without you choosing it.

Stripe mode or link mode. With no style attribute, the shortcode follows the show: if Stripe is set up for it, it renders the show’s default Stripe style; otherwise it renders the show’s link-mode prompt, which sends visitors to your external donation page. A style attribute picks the mode explicitly: form, button and icon are Stripe styles; inline, floating and after-player are link-mode styles.

When you ask for a Stripe style and no Stripe keys are configured for the resolved show, the shortcode renders nothing for visitors and non-administrators. For logged-in administrators, it renders an inline notice prompting them to configure Stripe keys in Show → Settings → Payments — so the issue is visible to the person who can fix it, without surfacing anything to visitors.

Three display styles are available. form embeds a Stripe Payment Element directly on the page. button and icon each open a donation modal (Stripe Payment Element inside a WordPress dialog overlay) — button shows a styled CTA button, icon shows an SVG icon with a caption below. Output filterable via benecaster_listener_support_output.

Already using Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-fi, or something similar? Keep it. This shortcode is one option, not a requirement, and nothing in Benecaster objects to a third-party donation button living on the same page — or to you never placing this one at all. The practical difference is where the money lands and who takes a cut: donations here go straight to your own Stripe account, and Benecaster takes no fee on them.

The Blocks & Widgets Library add-on wraps this shortcode as a Gutenberg block and Elementor widget with a style-picker in the block or widget settings sidebar.