Simple Membership vs Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin

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.

User Profile & Membership Plugin for WordPress The ultimate user profile & membership plugin for WordPress. The plugin makes it a breeze for users to sign-up and become members of your website. The plugin allows you to add beautiful user profiles to your site and is designed for creating advanced online communities and membership sites. Lightweight and highly extendible, Ultimate Member will enable you to create almost any type of site where users can join and become members with absolute ease. Features of the plugin include: Front-end user profiles Front-end user registration Front-end user login Custom form fields Conditional logic for form fields Drag and drop form builder User account page Custom user roles Member directories User emails Content restriction Conditional nav menus Show author posts & comments on user profiles Developer friendly with dozens of actions and filters Read about all of the plugin’s features at Ultimate Member Paid Extensions Ultimate Member has a range of extensions that allow you to extend the power of the plugin. You can purchase all of these extensions at a significant discount with one of our paid plans or you can purchase extensions individually. Zapier – Allow to integrate the Zapier popular apps with Ultimate Member Stripe – Sell paid memberships to access your website via Stripe subscriptions User Notes – Allow users to create public and private notes from their profile Profile Tabs – Allow to add the custom tabs to profiles User Locations – Allow to display users on a map on the member directory page and allow users to add their location via their profile Unsplash – Allow users to select a profile cover photo from Unsplash from their profile User Bookmarks – Allow users to bookmark content from your website User Photos – Allow users to upload photos to their profile Groups – Allow users to create and join groups around shared topics, interests etc. Private Content – Display private content to logged in users that only they can access User Tags – Lets you add a user tag system to your website Social Activity – Let users create public wall posts & see the activity of other users WooCommerce – Allow you to integrate WooCommerce with Ultimate Member Private Messages – Add a private messaging system to your site & allow users to message each other Followers – Allow users to follow each other on your site and protect their profile information Real-time Notifications – Add a notifications system to your site so users can receive real-time notifications Social Login – Let users register & login to your site via Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, Instagram and Vkontakte (VK.com) bbPress – With the bbPress extension you can beautifully integrate Ultimate Member with bbPress MailChimp – Allow users to subscribe to your MailChimp lists when they signup on your site and sync user meta to MailChimp User Reviews – Allow users to rate & review each other using a 5 star rate/review system Verified Users – Add a user verification system to your site so user accounts can be verified myCRED – With the myCRED extension you can integrate Ultimate Member with the popular myCRED points management plugin Notices – Alert users to important information using conditional notices Profile Completeness – Encourage or force users to complete their profiles with the profile completeness extension Friends – Allows users to become friends by sending & accepting/rejecting friend requests Free Extensions JobsBoardWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the job board plugin JobBoardWP. ForumWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the forum plugin ForumWP. Terms & Conditions – Add a terms and condition checkbox to your registration forms & require users to agree to your T&Cs before registering on your site. Google reCAPTCHA – Stop bots on your registration & login forms with Google reCAPTCHA Online Users – Display what users are online with this extension Theme Our official theme is purpose built for websites that have logged in and out users. The theme has deep integration with Ultimate Member plugin and the extensions, different header designs for logged-in/out users and works alongside the Beaver Builder and Elementor page builders. Our other plugins In addition to Ultimate Member, we also have two other plugins: ForumWP and JobBoardWP. ForumWP ForumWP is a forum plugin which adds an online forum to your website, allowing users to create topics and write replies. Forums are a great way to build and grow an online community. JobBoardWP JobBoardWP is a job board plugin which adds a modern job board to your website. Display job listings and allow employers to submit and manage jobs all from the front-end. Development * Translations If you’re a developer and would like to contribute to the source code of the plugin you can do so via our GitHub Repository. Want to add a new language to Ultimate Member? Great! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org. If you are a developer and you need to know the list of UM Hooks, make this via our Hooks Documentation or Hooks Documentation v2. If you are a developer and you need to know the structure of our code, make this via our Documentation API. Documentation & Support Got a problem or need help with Ultimate Member? Head over to our documentation and perform a search of the knowledge base. If you can’t find a solution to your issue then you can create a topic on the support forum.