10+ Great WordPress Membership Plugins

With WordPress membership plugins you can easily set up subscription based business and start earning recurring income.

The subscription based business model is extremely popular and potentially the most profitable for online entrepreneurs. Companies in the Telco industry have used this model for centuries with great success and it works perfectly for online businesses as well.

One of the recent and very strong trends is to sell software and infrastructure as a service. WordPress theme clubs are great examples of this. Membership websites is another popular example of the subscription based business model where customers sign up to get access to premium content. With a WordPress membership plugin, you can set up websites really fast that take care of all aspects of membership websites such as payment integration, members management, subscriptions /membership levels, protection of premium content etc.

Some WordPress membership plugins are simple and work well e.g. if you only want to restrict access to a few WordPress pages to registered members. Other plugins are fully featured membership suites with all the membership capabilities you will need. It is also possible to use hosted membership solutions

I have collected some of the best membership plugins for WordPress in this article to help you get an overview of the options and get your online membership business started. Please share your experience with running this kind of websites and if you worked with any of the WordPress subscription plugins before.

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WishList Member – MORE INFO

Wishlist is one of the most popular and feature rich membership plugins for WordPress. Many membership sites have been build using this plugins and there is a pretty large community supporting it and even consultants with dedicated focus on creating Wishlist Member solutions. This Membership plugin have most of the features you will need such as Unlimited Membership Levels, custom log-in pages, Sequential Content Delivery, Seamlessly integrates with the most popular shopping cart systems and much more.

WP-Membership Plugin – MORE INFO

This WordPress plugin that helps you sell your content. You only need to install the plugin, create a category for your private content, setup the prices of your memberships and your Paypal account. You don’t need to modify your template to have your premium content showed only to active members. You can setup unlimited membership, a dashboard that shows your sales monthly and a built in filter for monthly subscribers and membership.

Magic Members – MORE INFO

Magic Members is a premium WordPress membership plugin the seamlessly integrates secure payment processors (PayPal Standard, PayPal Website Payments Pro, PayPal Express Checkout, 1Shoppingcart, 2CheckOut, CCBill, ClickBank, Authorize.net, WorldPay, MoneyBookers, iDeal, Epoch, AlertPay, Ogone, SagePay, eWay, PagSeguro, Manual Pay) into your WordPress website. It is a flexible plugin that also allows you to have the ability of allowing free membership to purchase content articles on a per post basis. This plugin can also integrate with autoresponders, has an easy member management that will help you see all of your members, their status and other information in one easy read location.

Your Members – MORE INFO

Your Members is one of the most comprehensive membership management systems for website member management. It allows you to setup your site so users can register to get access to content. It supports several payment providers including PayPal, PayPal Pro, Stripe, Braintree, 2Checkout, Skrill, HSBC CPI, Zombaio, CCBill, Authorize.net and WorldPay. Users management is a breeze thanks to a well constructed and user friendly management interface. You can create several account types, user profiles and also to update and export user accounts.

S2 Member – MORE INFO

s2Member is a plugin for professional WordPress membership management. It is a robust plugin, pre integrated with additional payment gateways. Several other features include on site card processing, an integrated PayPal Pro form generator, Authorize.net form, Google checkout button and Clickbank button integration. Build your own WordPress membership site with unlimited paid membership levels using this plugin. It allows customization of almost every aspect of the membership site starting from the login page to the members page.

Amember – MORE INFO

aMember is the perfect membership software for selling digital products and downloads. It is a flexible and user friendly membership software that allows unlimited membership levels and items, an incremental content delivery, a payment systems integration and all the other bells and whistles you need to have in a membership website. This plugin is multilingual and supports up to 6 languages. An email management system and built in affiliate program functionality is also included.

Members – MORE INFO

Members is a plugin that extends your control over your blog. It’s a user, role, and content management plugin that was created to make WordPress a more powerful CMS. The foundation of the plugin is its extensive role and capability management system. This is the backbone of all the current features and planned future features.

WordPress eMember – Easy to Use WordPress membership Plugin – MORE INFO

WordPress eMember is a powerful WordPress Membership Plugin that can turn your existing or new WordPress site into a membership site easily.

Memberwing – MORE INFO

MemberWing-X  is an advanced WordPress membership plugin. It helps you build any kind of membership site: from personal membership blog to self-help and health educational website, from spiritual development portal to premium investment advisory newsletter. You can launch your own membership website in minutesand add online store selling access to digital downloadable materials such as e-books or podcasts. The plugin also supports autoresponders such as Aweber and Mailchimp.

WordPress Premium Content – MORE INFO

Jigowatt’s WordPress Premium Content plugin allows you to easily set up a web site with content which is only accessible to users registered with an active PayPal subscription. You can easily manage your subscribers, change subscription prices and set up custom membership renewal options (annual, bi-annual or just month by month). Your premium content can be split into as many tiers as you like, allowing for easy creation of “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” memberships, each of which given access to different levels of your premium content. The plugin includes a front-end subscription page with built in registration and there is IP based security to prevent subscription sharing.

Suma Plugin – MORE INFO

Suma is a plugin that’s purpose-built for WordPress and is designed specifically to run membership-based sites. Suma manages which visitors and members may view which Posts and Pages according to the privacy settings you specify. enforces the terms of subscription plans you define and automatically revokes access privileges of user accounts who’s subscriptions have expired or who’s payments are late. It even handles the accounting involved when a user decides to upgrade their subscription plan.

WP Premium Members + Pre Advertisements admin – MORE INFO

WP premium members is a membership plugin that not only displays your premium content to your paying members but also manages pre post advertisements. Subscription payments are made using the Paypal IPN . The users can choose either to subscribe for recurring payments so there Premium membership will be updated every month automatically or to buy a single Premium membership which will expire. This plugin is super easy to install. You just upload it to WordPress, add your Paypal email address and your ready to go.

Lars

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