WordPress has emerged as not only a leading blogging platform but also a content management system for many Web publishers. Now there is a simple plugin available that will turn your blog into a paid membership site.

The WP-Membership plugin allows publishers to collect membership fees for WordPress blogs via PayPal, Authorize.net, and YourPay, with additional payment gateways in development. Membership fees can be collected via recurring payments, with multiple subscirption levels, various subscription lengths and pricing options. Free and paid trial options are also available, as are page-by-page options so that certain content can be free while other, “premium” content can be fee-based.

WP-Membership is available for $35

Features

• Responsive & Ajax
• Translatable
  • 11 language files can be found in language directory inside the plugin. Files: Russian, German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, Swedish
• Payment Gateway
  • a) Paypal [Express Checkout]
  • b) Stripe [ Full synchronize with Stripe Plan ]
  • c) Woocommerce Payment
• Mailchimp to store Email for new registrants
• Membership Type
  • a) Free Account
  • b) One time Payment
  • c) Recurring Payment
  • d) Free Trial
  • e) Paid Trial
  • e) Variable Payment Package
• 7 Pricing Tables
• 2 Signup styles
• My account
  • User Setting
  • User Social Profile
  • User privacy setting
  • User Change Password
  • User All Post
  • User Post: Custom Fields
  • User Insert Post
  • User Edit Post
  • Subscription upgrade
  • Subscription downgrade
  • Subscription Cancel
• Coupon
• User Role creation by Package
• Overriding templates
• Page Redirect
  • User Public Profile Page Redirect
  • User My Account Page Redirect
  • User Registration Page Redirect
• Page Setting
• Email Templates
  • User Welcome Email template
  • User Forget Password Email template
  • User Order Email template
  • Admin Order Email template
• 5 User Public Profile
• Payment History
• Report
  • 3D Pic charts
  • Line Chart
• User Public Profile Page Redirect:
  • Hide Admin Bar
  • And Lots of other settings..
• 2 type of User Directories
• Content Protection Setting
• WP User Setting Module for Admin
• Subscription Reminder Email Module

Membership plugins/scripts for WordPress paid and free we will review them here today.

Ultimate Membership Pro

Ultimate Membership Pro is the #1 selling membership plugin on Codecanyon(Envato Marketplace)

Features: Protect certain pages our content, Restrict Access, Private Content, Redirect/Replace Content, Membership Site, GDPR Compliant, Multiple Subscription Plans Simultaneously, Members Management( from one dashboard), Easy Setup, Infinite Subscription Packages, Content Access Management, Partial Content Restriction, Multi Levels, Free/Paid Memberships, Recurring Payments, Social Logins, Menu Protection, Coupons, Free/Paid Trial’s, Drip Content, Email Verification, content locker, any url restriction, custom fields, special fields, conditional logic, verify code field, email marketing, Taxes (by buyers countries), Predefined templates included, custom currencies(currency exchange), smooth dashboard, support, synced WP Users, Translation Ready, Members List, Search Members by Field, Country Field, Flags, Bulk Coupons, Membership Card, Invitation Code, Cheat Mode( no sharing accounts), Download Monitor, all post restricted with a click, Lock Files, Levels Restriction, Payment Restrictions, Membership Gift, WordPress Social login, Woo Account Page, BuddyPress, Invoice on Order, List Acess Posts, Pushover Notifications, User Reports, Level Dynamic Price, Subsciption Delay, Security Login, WordPress Restrictions, Membership Badges, MyCred Points, API Gate, Integration with (Paypal, Stripe, Checkout, MailChimp, Aweber, Braintree, Zapier, Bank Transfers, Authorize.net, Payza, 2checkout, Mollie, Pagseguro, iContact, AWeber, GetResponse, Constant Contact, Mailster, Mad Mimi, ActiveCampaign)

Membership Pro main Features:

• Multi-Levels
• Unlimited Paid/Free Membership Levels
• Content Lockers protect
• Payments Gateway: PayPal, Authorize.net, Stripe, 2CheckOut, Braintree, Payza, Bank Transfer
• Sell Subscriptions via WooCommerce platform
• Trial Free/Paid period
• Drip Content protection
• Restrict Pages or any URL
• Subscriptions Plan
• MultiPayments option
• Login Predefined Templates
• Register Predefined Templates
• Menu Protection
• 9 Email Marketing Platforms integrated
• Visual Composer Integrated
• Keywords Restrictions

• Social Login with 7 Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Instagram, VKontakte, Tumblr
• 5 Predefined Social Buttons Layouts
• Double Email Verification
• Dashboard Stats
• Unlimited Registration/Profile Fields
• Restricted Fields based on Levels
• Redirect, or Replace Content Page
• WordPress Users Synchronize
• Members List Showcases
• Search Option into Members List
• Pagination settings into Members List
• Custom Currencies
• Coupon Codes discount
• Bulk Coupons builder
• Customizable Email Notification Templates

• Custom Inside Content Locker
• Special Custom Fields: Profile Image, Upload Files, Multi-Select
• Conditional Logic Register Form
• Verify Code/Question field
• Professional Account Page – Custom Content, Subscription actions (Renew, Cancel, Delete)
• Custom Redirect Links
• Multiple Predefined Shortcodes
• Custom Dashboard Access
• Taxes related to user Country
• Country special custom field
• BuddyPress Account Page Integration
• WooCommerce My Account Integration
• Download Monitor AddOn
• WP Social Login Integration

• Invoice on Orders with custom Templates
• List of Access Posts available for current Users
• Individual Page for each Users Account once is created
• Pushover Notifications for Mobile notifications besides the regular Emails
• User Reports available only for Admins for a better user tracking
• Subscription Delay lets you set when the Subscription will start, also.
• Level Dynamic Price – the user decides the paid price between some specific limits
• Security Login to avoid brute-force attacks.
• Membership Badges with custom Images.
• WordPress workflow Restriction based on Levels/Subscriptions.
• Filter & Search options into Members Directory
• Pagination into Members Directory
• Predefined Templates for Public Profile Page.
• Gravatar and BuddyPress Avatar synchronization.

• MYCred Integration for rewards points based on Subscriptions.
• API Module for external Calls
• Custom Account Page menu tabs
• Predefined Templates for Public Profile Page.
• Limit Comment submission based on assigned Subscription
• Limit Post submission based on assigned Subscription
• Integrated with Ultimate Affiliate Pro
• Flat&modern Design
• Ready-to-User once is installed
• Multiple reminders Notifications
• Provides Discount for Woo Products based on purchased Levels/Subscriptions
• Drip content Notifications
• Import Users&Levels via CSV file
• Sell SubSites based on Levels/Subscriptions into WP MultiSite environment

User Pro

UserPro is a Social Media Membership plugin, with over 19,000 customers this is one of the top membership scripts and boast a lot of features as well as of today’s date

It comes packed with amazing features like,

+  Customizable login and registration forms
+  Social connect and integration
+  User badges
+  Multiple member list displays
+  Viral marketing
+  Content restriction
+  Public/ private feed
+  Verified accounts, and much more.

It is simply an all-in-one plugin to help you create a complete community site.UserPro offers beautiful front-end profiles, login, and registration for WordPress. Besides these, UserPro comes with loads of other features like social connect and integration, viral marketing, user badges, verified accounts, content restriction, public/private activity feed, and more. It is simply an all-in-one plugin!

With UserPro, you can do just about anything you need for your WordPress Community website

+   Build your own community with searchable members directory
+   Give each user a custom and elegant profile
+   Add front-end, customized registration, and log in to your website

UserPro – All You Need To Setup A Community Website

Follow/Unfollow FeatureFollow, unfollow feature that lets your user follow/unfollow other community members. Ready shortcodes can be used to display Followers and Following		Social Activity StreamA stream showing recent activities by users on the site like new registration, new post, new comment, new followers, etc. Available in two types – Public Activity Stream and Private Activity Stream
Member Listing LayoutsDisplay members in standard table format or collage layout. You can also show customized member’s list		Member Directory SearchEnable members directory with standard search and filter options. Use custom filters to showcase your members in Enhanced Members Directory
Front End PublisherDoes’t send your regular members to the backend, let them publish directly from the frontend. It supports all custom post types and post categories.		Posts Made By UserShow posts made by user/author on the wide content area as well as on sidebar. Show posts by author dynamically. These fully responsive posts by the user can be included in the User’s profile as well.
Badges & AchivementsManually or automatically assign badges to user roles and display the same on the profile page. Supports custom badge upload feature.		Content RestrictionRestrict full page/post per user roles or for Verified Accounts. Lock entire site/specific page for logged out users.

Essentials

Intuitive drag and drop administration panel	Compatible with all properly coded WP themes and plugins!	Fully responsive and looks perfect on any screen size
5 ready-to-use skins	Unlimited CSS Support – Easily create and apply custom CSS and styles	RTL supported
350+ FontAwesome Icons & Unlimited Google Fonts	Translation Ready and available in 12 languages	Auto Update feature available

PrivateContent

PrivateContent has over 10,000 satisfied customers, with complete user management and a modern framework a unique engine for restricting any part of your website, is the solution for turning your WordPress site into a complete multilevel membership platform, offers support it is GDPR compliant.

Features list

• Users membership:
  • Unlimited user levels
  • Unlimited levels assignment per user
  • Admin manual insertion
  • Unlimited and flexible registration forms
  • Fast and intuitive list management
  • Sorting and simple + advanced search
  • Multi status: active / disabled / pending approval
  • Google Analytics integration tracking users action
  • Export and import systems
  • Direct WordPress users bulk import
    
    
• Contents restriction systems: (based on user categories + custom through API)
  • PrivateContet shortcode with optional warning box containing login/register buttons
  • Advanced restrictions wizard + restrictions helper included in any public post type or taxonomy
    • Pages/posts/custom post types / categories / custom taxonomies total restriction through redirect
    • Pages/posts/custom post types contents replacing with warning box or excerpt or also nothing
    • Comments form hiding
    • Persistent modal lightbox on page’s opening to force user’s interaction
      
      
  • Custom (URL-based) restriction with regular expressions support
  • Menu items
  • Widgets
  • Complete, 1-click, website lock (optionally leaving menu visible)
    
    
• Form framework:
  • Flexible fields structure
  • Form pages to split fields into sections
  • HTML5 client-side validation
  • Text blocks
  • Custom categories assignment (through shortcode)
  • Custom redirect (through shortcode)
  • Password strength setup
  • Anti-spam systems: honey-pot or invisible reCAPTCHA
  • Two layouts: one-column / fluid
  • Three preset styles + custom skin builder
  • Field and buttons icon + fields placeholder
  • Bottom border + no-label field styles
  • Registration and login forms alignment
    
    
• Lightbox engine showing forms (or any content) clicking any site’s element
• Login form and logout button with custom redirects
• User self-deletion box
• Users reserved area with preset contents and private comments
• WP users sync to allow WP-based systems usage + WP roles emulator
• User frontend registration and management through any form (using WP user sync)
• Native Visual Composer, Elementor and cornerstone integration
• Customizable messages
• 100% translatable + 23 frontend languages ready to be used + WPML or Polylang ready
• Dev-friendly API structure + hooks
• GDPR Compliant
• Modular structure (check add-ons)

Ultimate Affiliate Pro

Ultimate Affiliate Pro – is no Membership site plugin, however, we all know for a membership site to be successful it needs members and to get members the best way is to leverage your site with your own affiliate program.

Ultimate Affiliate Pro – main features

• Ranks with Achievements
  Classify your affiliates into separate ranks and assign a different commission level. Each Affiliate can be promoted to the next Rank once reached the Achievements
• Unlimited Affiliates
  There is no limit for your number of Affiliates that can promote your products and services
• Custom Amount
  Set a Percentage or Flat Amount for each Rank, Offer or custom commission, such an MLM rewards
• Special Offers
  Affiliates can earn different commissions based on which product/s are purchased. Offer can be limited by a Date Range.
• Multi-level Marketing
  Turn On your Affiliate platform into an MLM system that will boost your own affiliates to recruit new leads.  Based on your needs there can be set a UniLevel Plan, Force Matrix or Binary Matrix system.

• Lifetime Commissions
  Allow your affiliates to receive a commission on all future purchases by the customer. No worries anymore about Cookies or different browsers
• Performance Bonuses
  Set bonus commissions when one of your Affiliates touches a specific Rank or when he signUp for the first time. Each Rank may have a different Bonus.
• Banners Management
  It provides different Banners that will help your Affiliates to promote your products and services on any website with an embedded code.
• PayPal Payouts
  Pay Affiliates earnings via PayPal directly from the Ultimate Affiliate Pro dashboard with just a few clicks. Choose to pay specific Referrals or the entire Deposit.
• Stripe Payouts
  Pay US Affiliates earnings via Stripe directly from the Ultimate Affiliate Pro dashboard with just a few clicks.

• Recurring Referrals
  Award Commissions for recurring subscriptions into Membership systems with a custom amount and a different one from one Rank to another.
• Allow Own Referrals
  Allow for your Affiliate to earn commissions from their own referrals
• Signup Referrals
  Available for Membership system awarding a flat commission when referred user sign Up
• Social Share
  Integrated with Social Share&Locker provides Share button options for your Affiliate to share their Affiliate Links on Social Network.
• OptIn Integration
  10 Email Marketing Platforms integrated where you can store your Affiliates Emails for further Newsletter campaigns.

• Landing Commission
  Special module to cover any desired workflow by reward the affiliates based on a Landing Page, such a successful register or complete payment stage.
• Wallet
  Affiliates will have the option to spend their Earnings directly into the Website during further purchases based on Generated Coupons with a specific flat discount.
• Affiliate Coupons
  Correlate an Affiliate with a WooCommerce, Easy Digital Download or Ultimate Membership Pro coupon code to be rewarded when a customer use that Coupon into your systems.
• Affiliate Custom Slug
  Provides Personal slugs besides the default username or ID so Affiliates can hide their identity or company name behind a Custom slug.
• Friendly Affiliate Links
  Affiliates will be able to use friendly links instead of the default one with a better-looking structure when the link is shared and much easier to read

• Fair Checkout Reward
  Customers decide who affiliate will be rewarded during the Checkout process.
• BuddyPress Account Page
  Integrate the Affiliate Account Page section directly into the BuddyPress Account page as a regular tab.
• WooCommerce Account Page
  Integrate the Affiliate Account Page section directly into the WooCommerce Account page as a regular tab.
• Custom Currency
  If your Currency is not available into the system, you can add your own currency for further use.
• Top Affiliates
  Provides a public list with your top affiliates ordered by Earning, Referrals or Visits with 10 predefined templates

• Custom Fields Form
  Multiple Custom Fields types that will provide a fully customized Register Form.
• Account Page
  Over 15 Menu tab with different options and fully customizable based on 3 predefined Templates and specific sections.
• Affiliate Info
  There are many shortcodes that may help you to display for each logged Affiliate personal Info all over the website.
• Translation Ready
  Ultimate Affiliate Pro is ready to work into any language being fully translation ready.
• Reports
  Detailed Affiliate reports or payments stats for Admin and each Affiliate into Account Page.
• Notifications
  Email Notifications for different actions or stages to Affiliates and system Admin

In the Future

Ultimate Affiliate Pro plugin is already in use on some of our regular client’s websites and we know that the next thing they want is to have nice new features.

Ultimate Affiliate Pro is the newest and most complete Affiliate WordPress Plugin that allows you to provide a premium platform for your Affiliates with different rewards and amounts based on Ranks or special Offers.

You can turn on your Website into a REAL business and income machine where you just need to sit down and let the others work for you!

Each Affiliate can create his own marketing Campaign and brings more Affiliates via the “Multi-Level-Marketing” strategy.

Requirements

If you want to use the Ultimate Affiliate Pro plugin, you will need:

• WordPress v.4.0+
• PHP v.5.6+
• cURL enabled

User Profiles Made Easy

User Profiles Made Easy (UPME) is a full-featured front-end profile, log in and registration plugin for WordPress. It is user-friendly, fully responsive and works with any theme. With this plugin, you can stop sending your users to the ugly back-end profile, registration, and login pages, and instead give your users a seamless front-end experience on pages that match the rest of your website.

UPME takes your profiles to the next level, allowing you to create unlimited custom profile fields and to completely customize the registration form. You control which fields are required, which fields users can edit, which fields are private and much more. You can even display your users in a beautiful, searchable member directory, or just show one or two specific users on any page or post you want using one of the many included shortcodes. The possibilities are endless!

Includes many easy to use shortcodes with loads of options and is fully customizable.

UPME is not fully compatible with WordPress Multisite

Latest version: 2.3.09 – 2019.02.12

Note: You need PHP version 5.4 or higher to use User Profiles Made Easy.

If you like this plugin, please remember to rate it  

Giving UPME a five-star rating really motivates us to continue making it even better!

UPME is Packed with Features:

General Features:

  Elegant, responsive front-end profiles with unlimited custom fields
  Beautiful front-end Login & Registration forms with shortcodes
  Compatible with all (properly coded) themes
  SEO Friendly profile permalink options (see example)
  Integration with Yoast SEO for SEO features. (View More)
  Support for sharing profiles on Social networks.
  Enable/Disable third-party script and styles
  Works automatically with any existing user metadata and user meta fields from other plugins
  Show/promote a specific user or group of users anywhere with a shortcode
  Fully responsive adjusts beautifully to any screen size
  Easy to use shortcode generator
  Fully translatable to any language using .po files
  Import/Export custom fields.
  Import/Export UPME settings.
  Export UPME users.
  Custom actions and filters for adding more features using other plugins
  UPME Developer API for retrieving UPME data for other plugins and themes
  New features added regularly!
  Dedicated support forum!
  Enable/Disable third-party script and styles

Login and Registration:

  Add/Remove fields to registration form through filters. (View More)
  Multiple registration forms with different fields using filters. (View More)

  1-Click social login and registration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ (View More)

Force different user roles on each registration form through filters. (View More)

  Enable user role selection on the registration form

  Users may set a password when registering

User Profile Approvals allows admin to manually approve users before they log in

  Compatible with Invitation Codes Add-on for enabling registration through invitation codes.

Login with email or username

  Add/Remove fields to login form through filters. (View More)

  Built-in login form templates with a wide range of designs

  Role-based login redirection support.
  Multiple social login icon packs for a selection
  Customize the login and registration header through filters. (View More)
  Custom validations on Login and Registration using filters.
  Password strength meter and support for forcing password strength level
  Two-Factor authentication with email allows users to improve the security of login credentials.
  Sidebar Login Widget/Shortcode
  Image uploading in registration forms

Profile Features:

  Awesome profile header designs.

  Display profile picture inside the profile in custom dimensions and design. (View More)
  Customize profile header through filters.
  Create multiple user profiles with different fields using filters.(View More)
  Trigger profile field updates and notify the admin. (View More)
  Custom validations on profile updates using filters. (View More)

  Automatically works with Gravatar or users may upload custom profile pictures and avatars
  User-uploaded avatars work everywhere on WordPress (comments, bbPress avatars, etc.)
  Standalone profile page, link to user profiles, or current user profile automatically
  Lightbox Avatar Cropping for profile image
  Users may easily View/Edit their profiles
  Private profiles that user can decide to make the profile public or private
  Ability to delete profiles after confirmation by the user.
  Newest Members Widget
  Link user display names to UPME profile pages or author archives
  Display profiles based on User Role
  Restrict Viewing of Other User Profiles based on user role
  Open user profiles in awesome popup windows
  Cover image for user profiles
  Multiple profile header and cover image designs
  Latest members widget and shortcode
  Automatic profile image resizing

A few more for you to check out

Youzer – Buddypress Community & WordPress User Profile Plugin

ARMember

Ultimate Learning Pro – This one is a great niche(education) membership site plugin.

Good LMS – Learning Management System, another niche(education) membership site plugin.

WP Membership – This one is one of the original membership plugins for WordPress and one of the best.

WPGYM – WordPress Gym Management System – Another niche(Gym Management) membership site plugin

Frontend User Pro – Multi-level Membership Free/Paid

Fitness Trainer – another Niche(Fitness Training) membership plugin

I’ll add more options later

I recently posted a comment in response to a post on Justin Tadlock’s WordPress site about custom taxonomies. Then was asked by a reader how I integrated my custom taxonomies with one of Matt Mullenwegs “tagging” plugin.

1. Community Tags
2. Matt’s Community Tags

Anyway, I tried to install and use both plugins before with no luck. But decided to download Community Tags and try my luck again. With some hacking, I got it working. For a demo you can check out and tag (someone you know or recognize only, please) a picture over at my photography site, http://thefrosty.com.

Anyway, before I get carried away, I had a reader email me and ask how I integrated the plugin. And I thought I would ask you if you would be interedted in a re-re-release of the plugin.

At present time I do have some array errors, but everything works just fine as is.

Your comment feedback would be great! Thanks!