WP-Members Membership Plugin for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Chad Butler
WP-Members Membership Plugin is a WordPress app, with a 4.6 average rating from 272 reviews, as of Jul 15, 2026.
WP-Members Membership Plugin is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Chad Butler. With a rating of 4.6★ from 272 reviews.
AppRanks data: WP-Members Membership Plugin ranks #0 in Authentication on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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WP-Members Membership Plugin is a highly rated WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Authentication category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 272 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.6★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Chad Butler — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How WP-Members Membership Plugin works
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The original WordPress membership plugin with content restriction, user login, custom registration fields, user profiles, and more.
Membership Sites. Simplified. You need a membership site, but you want to focus on your business, not mastering a plugin. WP-Members is simple to use, easy to set up, yet flexible in every way imaginable.
Simple to install and configure – yet customizable and scalable!
Features:
Restrict or hide posts, pages, and custom post types
Limit menu items to logged in users
User login, registration, and profile integrated into your theme
Create custom registration and profile fields
Integrate custom fields into WooCommerce checkout and registration (only supported by shortcode pages, not block editor version)
Create custom memberships and content restriction
Notify admin of new user registrations
Hold new registrations for admin approval
Create post excerpt teaser content automatically
Shortcodes for login, registration, content restriction, and more
Create powerful customizations with more than 120 action and filter hooks
A library of API functions for extensibility
WP-Members allows you to restrict content as restricted or hidden, limiting access to registered users.
A full Users Guide is available here. The guide outlines the installation process, and also documents how to use all of the settings.
Support There is freely available documentation on the plugin’s support site. Your question may be answered there. If you need assistance configuring the plugin or have questions on how to implement or customize features, premium support is available.
You can get priority support along with all of the plugin’s premium extensions in one cost saving Pro Bundle!
Premium Support Premium support subscribers have access to priority email support, examples, tutorials, and code snippets that will help you extend and customize the base plugin using the plugin’s framework. Visit the site for more info.
Free Extensions
Stop Spam Registrations – Uses stopforumspam.com’s API to block spam registrations.
Send Test Emails – A utility to send test versions of the plugin’s emails.
Premium Extensions The plugin has several premium extensions for additional functionality. You can purchase any of them individually, or get them all for a significant discount in the Pro Bundle.
Advanced Options – adds additional settings to WP-Members for redirecting core WP created URLs, redirecting restricted content, hiding the WP toolbar, and more! Also includes integrations with popular plugins like WooCommerce, BuddyPress, bbPress, ADF, Easy Digital Downloads, and The Events Calendar.
Download Protect – Allows you to restrict access to specific files, requiring the user to be logged in to access.
Invite Codes – set up invitation codes to restrict registration to only those with a valide invite code.
MailChimp Integration – add MailChimp list subscription to your registation form.
Memberships for WooCommerce – Sell memberships through WooCommerce.
PayPal Subscriptions – Sell restricted content access through PayPal.
Security – adds a number of security features to the plugin such as preventing concurrent logins, registration form honey pot (spam blocker), require passwords be changed on first use, require passwords to be changed after defined period of time, require strong passwords, block registration by IP and email, restrict specified usernames from being registered.
Text Editor – Adds an editor to the WP-Members admin panel to easily customize all user facing strings in the plugin.
User List – Display lists of users on your site. Great for creating user directories with detailed and customizable profiles.
User Tracking – Track what pages logged in users are visting and when.
WordPass Pro – Change your random password generator from gibberish to word-based passwords (can be used with or without WP-Members).
Get support along with all of the plugin’s premium extensions in one cost saving Pro Bundle!
Category rankings
As of Jul 15, 2026- Authentication#0of 85Top 1%
- Membership#0of 63Top 1%
- Registration#0of 67Top 1%
- Restriction#0of 8Top 1%
- Login#14of 607Top 3%
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Keyword rankings
WP-Members Membership Plugin ranks for 4 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
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Where WP-Members Membership Plugin stands in the Authentication category
WP-Members Membership Plugin ranks #0 of 85 apps in the Authentication category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is WP-Members Membership Plugin?
WP-Members Membership Plugin is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.6-star rating from 272 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Authentication category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Chad Butler.