If you want to build a membership website with WordPress, there are many free and premium plugins available. With these plugins, You can easily create your own membership sites to make passive income.
1. 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.
Many available add-ons, you can easily enhance the functionality of this plugin. With this free plugin you can create an 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 use in plugins and web applications. Groups offer Built-in access control that allows restricting 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.
Groups have many powerful addons, you can download more plugins for Group here.
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Active Installs: 20,000+
2. Simple Membership
Simple Membership was last updated a 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.
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Active Installs: 40,000+
3. 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 another site.
Safe and Secure: Security is important and it has been specially taken care of. Members love website which has 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.
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Active Installs: 1,000+
4. 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 the 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 log in from the 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.
WP-Members: Membership Framework features
- 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
5. ProfileGrid
ProfileGrid is new and very easy to use plugin for membership and community websites.
It is a free plugin with a lot of features, the good thing about this plugin is that it offer advanced integration with WooCommerce, BBPress and BuddyPress.
The Basic plugin is free but you can download the premium add-ons to make powerful paid membership websites to easily manage members and payments.
You can read our ProfileGrid review to learn more about this plugin.