WordPress Membership Plugins and Resources

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Membership sites were, up until recently, quite hard to implement. You needed a lot of tech know-how to integrate a membership software with you static or even CMS driven website.
Up until WordPress, of course. It seems that “there’s a plugin for that” whatever your needs are, just like on the iPhone.
This article covers some of the best WordPress membership plugins and tutorials available at the moment.
WordPress Membership Plugins and Solutions
1. aMember Pro
aMember is the most used membership plugin. Although it was originally a stand-alone software, it now has support for a lot of platforms, including WordPress. aMember is a PHP membership script that can handle any types of membership you can think of. One good example are premium WordPress theme providers that sell a membership along with their themes.
Some features include: many payment systems integrated, translated into 7 languages, easy web administration, protection plugins and much, much more.
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2. Wishlist Member
WishList Member is a membership script that can help you easily turn your WordPress blog into a full blown membership site.
You can create unlimited membership levels, allow for sequential content delivery, control what your members can view/access (depending on their membership), control the lenght of subscriptions and even serve secure RSS feeds only to your members.
This plugin really gives you full control and the best part is it’s very, very easy to install and get it running.
3. WordPress eMember
Another great WordPress membership solution. This plugin add membership functionality to your WordPress installation by creating various membership levels (like Free, Basic, Premium, Ultimate). It also protects your content (posts, pages etc) so that only members are allowed to view it.
WordPress eMember also integrates perfect with WordPress Affiliate Software and WordPress eStore
4. Magic Member
With a clean design, this plug-in makes it very easy to get your WordPress membership site up and running. The only thing you need is to actiavate the plugin. If you need any help, they have a wide range of video tutorials for every single function. One of the cool features I liked is the Pay-Per-Post Access function.
You can also check out Magic Affiliate Plugin, created by the same people that made Magic Member.
5. Membership Plugin
Membership Plugin is a premium WordPress plugin that will add full membership capabilities to your WordPress powered site.
Features include membership types, levels, content protection, PayPal integration, teaser pages and of course, member and subscription lenght management.
6. Memberwing
This is an advanced membership plugin that comes with some unique features like Digital Content Theft Protection and Tracing or Digital Content Automated Promotion.
It also integrates with many 3rd party services, such as Aweber or iDevAffiliate. And the best part is, they even offer a free version.
7. WordPress Membership Plugin
WordPress Membership Plugin features all the common functionality seen in membership plugins. As a plus, it comes translated in 9 languages and allows you to design the registration pages easily.
Whatever license you opt for, you’ll also get 12-month support included.
8. WP Members
WP Members is a feature packed WordPress Membership Management Plugin that allows you to turn a WordPress Blog into a fully functioning membership site which can accept payments through Paypal, ClickBank and WorldPay.
Features include multiple membership levels, control over content, several payment modules, partial content display and even a download manager.
Further reading and other resources
How to Use WordPress as a Membership Directory
Members Only – a WordPress plugin that allows you to make your blog only viewable to visitors that are logged in.
Please share any other resources you know or use (either commercial or free) in the comments below.
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November 29th, 2009 at 23:14
Thank you very much for this helpful plugin list…
May 5th, 2010 at 21:15
All membership plugins have one in common: They do not work with the double opt-in feature. So German users may not use them (law demand).
May 18th, 2010 at 12:24
I moved from Wishlist to Your Members ( http://www.newmedias.co.uk/wordpress-membership ) and I’ve been much happier with it. It can be quite technical in places, but I prefer that to it being limited.
August 31st, 2010 at 02:48
Great WP membership plugin resource.
Question for all: Has anyone found a WP membership program that allows a company to signup, which in tuen gives their employees access? (for example, a company would sihn-up (membership) which would allow their employees to access WP for training (paid for by company)
Thanks