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Top 10 Best Free WordPress MembershipPlugins 2016

In this article i am going to list 10 most popular best free WordPress membership

plugins.

What Is A Membership Site?

A membership website will have specific content for members of the site. The content

could be tutorials, videos, ebooks, digital downloads, news articles etc.

Generally members have to pay a fee to become a member. It could be a one time fee

or a recurring fee (billed per month/3 months/year etc) to get access to some or all of

the members only content.

By default, WordPress allows all content to be “open” and viewable by anyone and

allows the site owner to restrict specific content if desired by setting a password for the

post.

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With free and premium WordPress Membership Plugins you can restrict access to all or

specific posts, pages and media by default.

WordPress Membership Plugin Features

So many free and premium Membership Plugins are available for WordPress. Here is a

list of features different WordPress membership plugins offer.

Fully Automated Membership System

Content Protection

Unlimited Membership Levels

Multi Site License

Easy Member Management

Manually Approve Members

Partial Content Display

Secure RSS Feeds

Automatic Membership Upgrade

Login Redirection

Custom Registration Fields

Download Folder Protection

PayPal and other payment gateways Integration

Autoresponder Integration

Best Free WordPress Membership Plugins 2016

1. WP-Members: Membership Framework

WP-Members: Membership Framework is another free membership plugin that is

compatible with WordPress 4.4.2. It requires WordPress 3.1 or higher. It is a scalable

plugin that provides the freedom to customize your WordPress website with look and

feel.

It is a great free membership plugin for sites and blogs offering premium content to

subscribers. With WP-Members you can allow members to login from front end of your

website.

To use WP-Members: Membership Framework, you don’t need to modify or customize

your theme. WP-Members also offers the ability to change the default plugin settings.

For those that simply want to utilize the member management features and possibly

restrict some content, the default setting can easily be toggled to block or unblock

pages and/or posts by default.

W P - M E M B E R S : M E M B E R S H I P F R A M E WO R K F E AT U R E S

Block posts, pages, both, or none by default

Inline and sidebar Login and Registration

User registration and profile integrated into your theme

Notify admin and hold registrations of new user registrations for approval

Active Installs (Feb 2016): 60,000+

2. Paid Memberships Pro

Paid Memberships Pro is one of the most popular free WordPress membership plugins.

It requires WordPress 3.5 or higher and is compatible up to WordPress 4.4.2.

With Paid Memberships Pro plugin you can set up unlimited membership levels and

provide restricted access to members-only content (including pages, posts, categories,

videos, forums and downloads).

Accepting payments is also easy because Paid Memberships Pro integrates with The

Most Popular Payment Gateways including Stripe, Authorize.net, PayPal (Standard,

Express, Website Payments Pro, and PayPal Payments Pro/Payflow), Braintree,

2Checkout, and Cybersource.

Dozens of free and premium add-ons are also available.

Integrate with Top Third Party Tools.

PMPro integrates with Mailchimp, Constant Contact, AWeber, GetResponse, Social

Login, KISSMetrics, Infusionsoft, WP Courseware, LearnDash, Post Affiliate Pro, bbPress,

WooCommerce, and many more popular third party tools.

Active Installs (Feb 2016): 40,000+

3. S2Member

s2Member Framework (Member Roles, Capabilities, Membership, PayPal Members)

S2Member is another one of the most popular, best and powerful (free) membership

plugin for WordPress. With S2 membership plugin you can protect members only

content with user roles and capabilities.

The s2Member Framework free WordPress membership plugin integrates with PayPal

Website Payments Standard (also free). You can setup a Membership access to your

site. This free plugins allows you to restrict access to user roles, Capabilities, Posts,

Pages, or anything else in WordPress.

You can even protect all downloadable files and streaming audio and video on your

WordPress website. You can store files locally, or use s2Member’s integration with

Amazon S3/CloudFront.

A pro version is also available which allows you to accept payments via Stripe, PayPal

A pro version is also available which allows you to accept payments via Stripe, PayPal

Pro and Authorize.net.

s2Member Framework requires WordPress 4.2 or higher.

Active Installs (Feb 2016): 40,000+

4. Ultimate Member

Ultimate Member is another free and up to date WordPress membership plugin. It

requires WordPress 4.1 or higher and compatible up to WordPress 4.4.2.

A lightweight yet powerful plugin that will turn your simple WordPress website into a

fully functional membership website. It allows you to add beautiful user profiles to your

site and is perfect for creating advanced online communities.

Ultimate Member is a Lightweight and highly extendible free membership plugin, that

allows you to create almost any type of site where users can join and become members

with absolute ease.

More than 15 free and premium add-ons are also available for this free WordPress

membership plugin. Google reCAPTCHA and Online Users are two free add-ons. Social

Activity, WooCommerce, Private Messages, Real-time Notifications Mailchimp, User

reviews are few premium addons for Ultimate Member.

reviews are few premium addons for Ultimate Member.

Ultimate Member has been translated into the many languages including Spanish,

French, Italian, German, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Swedish and many more.

Active Installs (Feb 2016): 20,000+

5. Groups

With 20,000+ active install Groups is an efficient and powerful membership solution for

WordPress, which provides group-based user membership management, group-based

capabilities and content access control.

According to Groups WordPress membership plugin developers, it is designed as an

efficient, powerful and flexible solution for group-oriented membership and content

access control.

With Many available add-ons you can easily enhance the functionality of this plugin.

With this free plugin you can create unlimited number of groups and assigning users to

different groups is also possible.

Groups plugin supports custom capabilities for groups: allow you to define new

capabilities for usage in plugins and web applications. Groups offers Built-in access

control that allows to restrict access to posts, pages and custom content types to

control that allows to restrict access to posts, pages and custom content types to

specific groups and users only.

Groups for WordPress plugin is also multisite compatible, all features are supported

independently for each blog in WordPress multi-site installations.

Active Installs: 20,000+

6. Membership 2

This WordPress Membership plugin is another popular and free plugin from WPMUDev.

Membership 2 is a free plugin to transforms your WordPress website into a fully

functional membership site.

4.0.0.7 is the latest version of membership 2 is completely rewritten.This plugins

provide access to downloads, online content, videos, forums and support. The new

plugin is easy to use and it adapts to the situation very well.

Membership 2 even includes set-and-forget automated recurring payments, so you can

focus on providing value while getting income from your members.

The plugin provides interactive setup wizard that will guide you through each and every

step to install it. The special features that membership pro provides its customers with

are as follows fully integrated coupon system. Coupon system helps to attract new

customers.

Membership 2 allows you to easily accept payments via PayPal, Stripe and

Authorize.net. You can even get paid via good old fashioned manual payments. A

premium version is also available, which offers more advanced features.

There are four Kinds of membership packages available

Standard Membership

Dripped Content Membership

Guest Membership

Default Membership

Admin-side protection rules: This plugin gives it users the power to protect the website

from different dangerous attacks.

Custom post-type protection: This plugin also provides protection to the post types

that is not native to WordPress

Advanced media protection rules: Provide much more strong rules to protect media

files

Network Wide Protection: You can handle your site while sitting anywhere in the world.

Active Installs (Feb 2016): 10,000+

7. Simple Membership

Simple Membership was last updated few weeks ago, it requires WordPress 3.1 or

higher and compatible up to WordPress 4.4.2.

Simple membership WordPress plugin allows you to add membership functionality to

your site. With this free plugins you can easily Protect members only content using

content protection feature.

With this free plugin you can set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver,

gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create.

Protecting your content is very easy because, when you are writing or editing a post or

page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your

members.

You can configure it to have free and/or paid memberships on your site. Paid

membership payment is handled securely via PayPal. Simple Membership plugin

records all the payments from your members, you can view them anytime by visiting

the payments menu from the admin dashboard.

Active Installs: 10,000+

8. Memberful WP

An easy to use plugin that would require very less time and effort to convert your

simple website into a membership website. It will make easy for your community to

support your work through this simple membership software.

Sell memberships and restrict access to content with WordPress and Memberful. This is

a very simple WordPress membership plugin that integrates your site with Memberful.

Memberful is a service for selling subscriptions to your website with Stripe.

Memberful.com offers three pricing plans to get started. Starter plan is free, which lets

you create 2 subscription plans. Pro plans will cost you $25/month and ENTERPRISE

plan $100/month.

Memberful WP features

Your content. Your brand: As an independent business, you own your content, your

website, and your brand. It’s your critical link to your audience.

Fast: it is a light plugin thus it doesn’t make our website heavy. The loading time of the

website is very less as compared to other site.

Safe and Secure: Security is important and it has been specially taken care of. Members

love website which have good security so this plugin will provide your members with

good and healthy security.

Easy Management: Your admin will be able to manage the data without any hassle.

Active Installs (Feb 2016): 1,000+

Best Premium WordPress Membership Plugins

9. Restrict Content Pro

Restrict Content Pro is premium WordPress plugin to create a membership website.

With this plugin you can easily lock away your exclusive content and only premium

members will be able to access your content.

Restrict Content Pro fulfils all basic requirements of a membership site. The plugin is

light and easy to install and provides some best features that your members are going

to love.

With Restrict Content Pro you can create unlimited number of subscription packages

and view all active, pending, expired, canceled, and free users. It allows you to easily

create free, trial, and premium subscriptions.

Accepting payments is also very easy, Restrict Content Pro offers support for

Stripe.com, 2Checkout, Braintree, PayPal Standard, PayPal Express, and PayPal Website

Payments Pro.

Restrict Content Pro offers 30 Day Money Back Guarantee. For single site you can start

with personal plan ($42). Plus plan ($86) is available for 2 to 5 websites and if you are a

developer you can choose professional plan ($132) for unlimited sites.

Add-ons: More than 20 free and premium add ons are also available including

Download monitor, job manager, mailchimp, braintree paymeny gateway and more.

Following are some exclusive features that this plugin would provide your site.

Reports: Elegant and easy-to-use reports to show you exactly how well your

membership site is performing.

Data Export: Members would be able to export data to CSV

Live Demo: To let you know about the features the plugin is going to provide you.

Members Management: helps admins to manage members without a hassle

Member Emails: Send welcome emails to new members, email payment receipts,

and remind members before their account expires automatically.

Buy Restrict Content Pro

10. WP EMember

WP eMember is a premium WordPress plugin to create free and paid membership

sections on your WordPress based websites or blogs.

It is an up to date WordPress membership plugin, which is compatible with WordPress

4.4. WP eMember also have the option to use the new Google Captcha.

WordPress eMember is a powerful WordPress Membership Plugin to turn your existing

or new WordPress website into a fully featured membership website easily.

With WP eMember you can create different membership levels ( e.g Free, Basic,

Premium, Ultimate etc). With different membership levels you can selectively protect

articles (blog posts) and other content (including posts, pages, comments etc) of your

site.

A detailed getting started documentation is also available for WP eMember.

WP eMember membership plugin provides many great features, including Fully

Automated Membership System, content (posts, pages, media) Protection, multiple

Membership Levels, member management, Automatic Membership Upgrade and more.

Buy WP eMember

Final Words

I have listed 10 most popular and best membership plugins for WordPress, there are so

many other plugins available, which plugin do you use, share your views with us in

comments below.

I will keep updating this article.

I will keep updating this article.

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February 26, 2016 at 2:10 am

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February 26, 2016 at 10:14 am

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