No, I imagine you should
Minimal plugins and make sure they are supported with a large user base and updated frequently. Do not upload plugins just cause they sound sexy. Abandoned sexy is tomorrows doorway for hackers
Two plugins mandatory:
1/ Wordfence will protect you from hackers and they are very very good at it. Premium edition if you can afford it, otherwise free works well too.
2/ Updater by BestWebSoft. This will automatically update all your plugins, themes and wordpress itself whenever a new version is posted. That will keep you ahead of the hackers.
-Set up more than one admin ID and enable two factor authentication if you can.
-When setting up the admins use two separate email addresses for recovery if needed.
-Do not post any information beyond your user name/email when you set yourself up in the user section as admin
-When setting up user ID's wordpress will generate you a 24 digit password. Use it. Change it every 3-4 months. Use a 24 digit on your email too.
Use those long 24 digits on your hosting account password also. Once you're into the hosting account most offer ways into the site from the back door.
Go to ""GFY.com, that is the main adult webmaster site. Programs, cams you'll find everything there.
Banner ads and pops are soooo 2000 ish. Surfers are blind to them.
So adult...what can I say. It built the internet and yes, I was there. Two decades ago ALL our traffic went to adult because they were the only ones paying $$$. We used to be unhappy with 1/50 or 1/200 conversions. I dropped out when it started to hit 1/50,000. 1/5000-6000 is common now although I haven't stayed on top of it for the last 3-4 years.
Own your own site. Domain and hosting. I can't emphasize that enough. All those big social media sites are subject to public and political pressure. Never build your business on someone else's land.
It sucks to spend years building a blog or site up with traffic and then have the supplier decide to get out of the adult biz and shut you down. If you own the site and domain you can just switch hosting companies.
The advice about WordPress stands, your real risk is the cheating that goes on with the adult suppliers. The programs cheat. They'll scrub conversions, traffic and pocket the $$$. Probably in the 20% range or worse. A lot make their money reselling your traffic out the backend. Read through the threads on GFY to get some idea of good companies and the problem ones. Ignore the "these guys are new and wonderful" bullshit. Most of it is planted. See the scrub comment above.
Nowadays the stuff that sells is the real fetish stuff. Find a small niche and make it yours.
I've given a lot of thought to this myself. I set up a fetish site a couple of years ago for an experiment. It's now second page on Google results and climbing. I've been writing stories for it and intend to sell them along with other books for that fetish. I've been giving free samples and have been gratified that readers are emailing me and asking when they can buy the book.
All the porn sites I see are focused on videos and pics. I think there's a market for stories and books and good author for a particular fetish should do well.
PS: use the Google adwords traffic tool to estimate the traffic in a niche. Plug the term in and see if there is any advertising for it. Those are good tells before launching something and finding out no one's buying or interested in that fetish.
PPS when I refer to WordPress I mean the software installed on your own site, not the pre-done ones.
Good luck.
