Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin vs Simple Membership

Members is a roles and capabilities based WordPress membership plugin. It gives your users the ultimate member experience by giving you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users. Members allows you to set permissions to restrict content on your site by providing a simple user interface (UI) for WordPress’ powerful roles and capabilities system, which has traditionally only been available to developers who know how to code this by hand. Plugin Features Role Editor: Allows you to edit, create, and delete roles as well as capabilities for these roles. Multiple User Roles: Give one, two, or even more roles to any user. Explicitly Deny Capabilities: Deny specific capabilities to specific user roles. Clone Roles: Build a new role by cloning an existing role. Role Import / Export: Export all roles and Members settings to a JSON file, export selected roles from the roles table, and preview imported roles before choosing whether to import, skip, overwrite, or rename each one. Content Permissions / Restricted Content: Protect content to determine which users (by role) have access to post content. Shortcodes: Shortcodes to control who has access to content. Widgets: A login form widget and users widget to show in your theme’s sidebars. Private Site: You can make your site and its feed completely private if you want. Administrator Rescue (Magic Link): If you lose access to the WordPress admin (e.g. after editing roles), you can request a secure, time-limited link by email to restore your Administrator role and Members capabilities—no support ticket or database access required. Plugin Integration: Members is highly recommended by other WordPress developers. Many existing plugins integrate their custom roles and capabilities directly into it. Seamless MemberPress Integration If you’re looking to build a business out of your membership site by creating paid memberships there’s no better way than to use MemberPress. Members and MemberPress work together to provide the ultimate member experience and will help you start and profit from your amazing WordPress membership sites! All Add-ons are now included Members now includes ALL of it’s add-ons completely free of charge! Here are some of the awesome features they add to Members: Block Permissions: Allows site owners to hide or show blocks based on user logged-in status, user role, or capability. Privacy Caps: Creates additional capabilities for control over WordPress’ privacy and personal data features (GDPR). Admin Access: Allows site administrators to control which users have access to the WordPress admin via role. Core Create Caps: Adds the create_posts and create_pages caps to posts/pages to separate them from their edit_* counterparts, providing more flexible editing capabilities. Categories and Tag Caps: The Category and Tag Caps add-on creates custom capabilities for the core category and post tag taxonomies. This allows site owners to have precise control over who can manage, edit, delete, or assign categories/tags. Role Levels: Exposes the old user levels system, which fixes the WordPress author drop-down bug when users don’t have a role with one of the assigned levels. Role Hierarchy: Creates a hierarchical roles system. ACF Integration: Creates custom capabilities for the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin for managing with the Members plugin. EDD Integration: Integrates the Easy Digital Downloads plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager. GiveWP Integration: Integrates the GiveWP and GiveWP Recurring Donations plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager. Meta Box Integration: Integrates the Meta Box plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager. WooCommerce Integration: Integrates the WooCommerce plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager. For more info, visit the Members plugin home page. Like this plugin? The Members plugin is a massive project with 1,000s of lines of code to maintain. A major update can take weeks or months of work. We don’t make any money directly from this plugin while other, similar plugins charge substantial fees to even download them or get updates. Please consider helping the cause by: Adding MemberPress. Rating the plugin. Documentation Read the full documentation Support If you need plugin support from us, you can visit our support page. Plugin Development If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s GitHub repository.

A flexible, well-supported, and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content from your WordPress site The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members can view the protected content. Unlimited Membership Access Levels Set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver, gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create. Flexible Membership Duration Options Simple Membership supports multiple membership duration models, including: Fixed duration (days, weeks, months, or years) No expiry / until canceled Fixed future expiry date Annual memberships (calendar or fiscal year based) Subscription-driven access Each membership level can be configured independently to match your access rules. User Friendly Interface for Content Protection When you are editing a post or page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your members. Non-members who try to view a protected page will be prompted to log in or become a member. Have Free and Paid Memberships You can configure your site to offer free memberships, paid memberships, or both. Paid membership payments are handled securely via PayPal, Stripe, or Braintree. Both one-time and recurring (subscription) payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe. Both one-time and recurring/subscription payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe. Use the subscription payment feature to offer memberships that renew automatically on a regular basis (for example, every month or every year), or offer one-time payment memberships that do not renew automatically. Braintree supports one-time membership payments. Option to make membership payment buttons using the new PayPal Checkout API. For free memberships, you can enable email activation or email confirmation during the registration process. Membership Payments Log All the payments from your members are recorded in the plugin. You can view them anytime by visiting the payments menu from the admin dashboard. Developer API There are lots of action and filter hooks that a developer can use to customize the plugin. There is also an API that can be used to query, create, update member accounts. Member Login Widget on The Sidebar You can easily add a member login widget on the sidebar of your site. Simply use the login form shortcode in the sidebar widget. You can also customize the member login widget by creating a custom template file in your theme (or child theme) folder. Option to show a password visibility toggle option in the login form. Documentation Read the setup documentation after you install the plugin to get started. Plugin Support If you encounter any issues with this plugin, please visit our website to post on the support forum or contact us directly. https://simple-membership-plugin.com/ You can create a free forum account to ask your questions. Additional Features Works with any WordPress theme. Ability to protect photo galleries. Ability to protect attachment pages. Show teaser content to convert visitors into members. Comments on your protected posts will also be protected automatically. There is an option to enable debug logging so you can troubleshoot membership payment related issues easily (if any). Ability to customize the content protection message that gets shown to non-members. Ability to partially protect post or page content. You can apply protection to posts and pages in bulk. Ability to use merge vars in the membership email notification. Membership management side is handled by the plugin. Ability to manually approve your members. Ability to import WordPress users as members. Search for a member’s profile in your WP admin dashboard. Filter members list by account status. Filter members list by membership level. Site admins can save private notes about members, providing a convenient way to keep track of important information. Can be translated to any language. Hide the admin toolbar from the frontend of your site. Allow your members to delete their membership accounts. Send quick notification email to your members. Email all members by membership level, with an option to filter by account status. Customize the password reset email for members. Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member registration form. Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member login and password reset form. The login and registration widgets will be responsive if you are using a responsive theme. Ability to restrict the commenting feature on your site to your members only. Front-end member registration page. Front-end member profiles. Front-end member login page. Option to configure after login redirection for members. Option to configure after registration redirect for members. Option to configure after logout redirection for members. Option force the members to use strong password. Option to make the users agree to your terms and conditions before they can register for a member account. Option to make the users agree to your privacy policy before they can register for a member account. Option to hide the registration/join option. Useful if you prefer visitors not to see the registration option on your site. Option to automatically logout the members when they close the browser. Ability to forward the payment notification to an external URL for further processing. Option to configure whitelisting for user email addresses to allow registration only from specific email addresses or email domains. Option to configure blacklisting for user email addresses to block registration from certain email addresses or email domains. Allows you to set an active login limit for members, helping to prevent account sharing. Option to enable and set failed login attempt limit, which helps to protect against brute force attacks. Option to enable login event tracking, allowing you to view the history of member logins. Option to reset the settings and data of the plugin to start fresh. Option to configure PayPal payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments). Option to configure Stripe payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments). Option to configure Braintree payment buttons for memberships (one-time payments). Free Social Login addon that lets users log in with their Google or Facebook accounts. The plugin is actively maintained and we are working on new features for the plugin. Browse the plugin documentation to learn more about the features of this plugin. Language Translations The following language translations are already available: English German French Spanish Spanish (Venezuela) Chinese Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Swedish Macedonian Polish Turkish Russian Dutch (Netherlands) Dutch (Belgium) Romanian Danish Lithuanian Serbian Japanese Greek Latvian Indonesian Hebrew Catalan Hungarian Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Slovak Italian Norwegian Mexican Arabic Czech Finnish You can translate the plugin using the language translation documentation.