s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions
❤️ Excellent membership plugin! Easy, quick, flexible. Monetize your site with memberships and subscriptions. Protect content instantly and securely.
4.1(233 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, s2Member is a WordPress membership plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 233 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2+ and PHP 5.6.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 65% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Ultimate Member – User Profile….
4.1/5233 reviews
9.0K+active installs
100%resolved
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
❤️ Excellent membership plugin! Over 15 years of experience, development, releases… Still going and growing!
Start your membership profits! Build your tribe, gather your followers, enroll your students, bring in your clients!
💵 Enjoy the benefits of getting paid repeatedly for access to your site!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant “So glad I found this. It works brilliantly for our needs… love the seamless integration with PayPal. Everything we need. Thank you so much for creating this!” –zarverk2000
The best way to make money from your WordPress site!
🤩 Sell unlimited memberships, turn free subscribers into members (subscriber to member → s. 2 member → s2Member), with a single payment or recurring payments subscriptions.
Easy and quick to use. Protect your membership conten…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.1233 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Support in 2026 is still great
by leoravera·1 week ago·1 reply
The plugin is still working very well, you can do almost anything, especially using shorcodes and the “if” function.
Cristian is actively working on the plugin, and provides a great support. Other plugins I used have become more expensive and the support is a nightmare, while is so easy to get in touch with Cristián Lávaque.
5 star for me, I’m happy I discovered this plugin many years ago and that it’s still supported and woking very well!
Absolutely fantastic support
by paul16f1·1 month ago·1 reply
Cristian got back to me super quick and resolved my problem.
Unusual to have such great customer service.
It is a great plugin and so versatile.
thanks Cristian
This plugin and support are awesome
by kemmieg·5 months ago·1 reply
I have been using this plugin for a couple of my websites and it’s a great plugin. The support for this plugin is A1. They have been more than helpful in getting me pointed in the right direction and getting my issues resolved in a timely manner.
I would recommend this plugin to anyone looking for a very robust membership plugin.
Great product, great support!
by diegomane·7 months ago·1 reply
Highly recommended!
Quick response, very helpful
by ollyw·7 months ago·1 reply
Had an issue where s2member PayPal buttons were causing a strange intermittent error. Cristian responded promptly to my s2member Pro support request and with his help we sorted the problem.
Very grateful :).
- This topic was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by ollyw.
Download Trends
Today: 195Yesterday: 149This week: 1KPeriod total: 90K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.2+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 5.6.2+ required |
Version Adoption
Other
48.4%
v260325
25.1%
v260312
7.7%
v251005
7.5%
v260215
5.9%
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Changelog
v260325
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(Framework) Fix: Improved PayPal Checkout webhook idempotency to prevent duplicate processing during repeated/concurrent webhooks, while preserving normal behavior.
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(Framework) Fix: Resolved a PayPal IPN issue where some
subscr_cancelnotifications were ignored because the cancellation handler failed before it had fully identified the recurring subscription. -
(Framework) Improvement: Added IPN Signup Var lookups for missing PayPal cancellation IPN values like
period1,period3,item_number,item_name, andpayer_email, preventing validsubscr_cancelnotifications from being ignored. -
(Framework) Improvement: Moved s2Member’s translation files to
/languages, following the WordPress standard, and updated.moloading to support that directory while continuing to support the standard and legacy WordPress locations. -
(Framework) Improvement: Hardened PayPal Standard IPN endpoint response handling and added debug logging for hosts/security layers that incorrectly return HTTP 403 after successful processing.
…and 13 more changes
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