Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin
The best WordPress membership and user role editor plugin. User Roles & Capabilities editor helps you restrict content in just a few clicks.
4.9(1,244 reviews)
·300K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Members is a WordPress roles plugin with 300K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 1,244 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.8M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 90%. Top alternative: If Menu – Visibility control for Menus.
4.9/51,244 reviews
300K+active installs
90%resolved
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
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 ro…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.91,244 reviews
5 ★
1,165
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Recent Reviews
Works great, easy to use…
by ptancsik·Yesterday
The Members plugin has been a reliable part of my workflow. It keeps role and permission management clean, predictable, and free of unnecessary complexity. Everything integrates smoothly, and the interface makes it easy to set up exactly what you need without bloat. If you want straightforward, dependable user‑role control, this plugin delivers.
Works Great
by Eva Garbo·2 weeks ago
Simple to use
Very Good
by duckula·2 weeks ago
Worked perfectly for my use case
boa
by edunucleo·3 weeks ago
atende as necessidades
Buon plugin
by mdesigntruckstyling·1 month ago
Semplice e funzionante. spero venga sempre aggiornato e funzioni tutto come si deve anche in futuro
Download Trends
Today: 1KYesterday: 2KThis week: 13KPeriod total: 810K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.2
92.9%
Other
7.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
The change log is located in the changelog.md file in the plugin folder. You may also view the change log online.
Contributors
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