WP-Members Membership Plugin
The original WordPress membership plugin with content restriction, user login, custom registration fields, user profiles, and more.
4.6(271 reviews)
·50K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, WP-Members Membership Plugin is a WordPress login plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 271 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: WPS Hide Login.
4.6/5271 reviews
50K+active installs
50%resolved
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
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
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Ratings & Reviews
4.6271 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Fantastic plug-in and tech support!
by billyd123·4 months ago
This is a great plug in that has absolutely met all our needs. But it’s actually pretty complex, and has a lot going on, so I strongly strongly recommend shelling out the very reasonable fee to get the pro version, and the fantastic tech support that comes with it. I won’t deny, we lent on this heavily as we customised the plug-in to our specific needs, often asking what I realised in retrospect were dumb questions that were well covered in the online support material already, but Chad was never less than polite and super detailed in all his responses, nailing the issue every single time. The tech support service honestly could not have been better. It’s weird to read in some of the other reviews how people had problems with the plug-in, because that just was not our experience at all. I’d recommend it 100%.
thnks to yr team
by bsrtir5·6 months ago
thank you all
plugin will not delete
by JohnDT·7 months ago·1 reply
Installed to try the plugin.
After deactivate it will not delete.
Contacted the plugin page in the forum with no response.
Not impressed.
Edit – I wasn’t aware it was a holiday weekend when I posted,
The reply was the developer tested the plug in to confirm it would delete and sugested it was not deleting due to some sort of conflict on my site.
2 other plu jins deleted ok.
- This topic was modified 7 months ago by JohnDT.
Nightmare
The plugin is an nightmare, why? Emails with HTML? Looks good? Forget it. It never saves all inputs correctly, and nothing ever displays or sends all inputs correctly. And by never, I mean that some element is always processed or displayed incorrectly. Not to mention the repeated 403 messages saying permission is missing – to the Admin of the Site. Unbelievable!
Hello Chad Butler
I really appreciate the work of developers like you! And it’s hardly possible that 250 other users would let themselves be carried away and give good 5-star reviews without any reason. But after more than six hours of frustration, I’ve just had enough. Sorry.
- This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by [email protected].
- This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by [email protected].
Nightmare
by jhowell47260·9 months ago·1 reply
This has not worked for me at all (Astra theme using Elementor); every bug has been resolved by deactivating WP-Members. A lot of time wasted 😣😣
Download Trends
Today: 271Yesterday: 306This week: 2KPeriod total: 323K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.5
61.2%
v3.4
21.9%
Other
8.8%
v3.3
8.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.5.6
- Security update to [wpmem_user_membership_posts] shortcode. Limits the “order” and “order by” options in the shortcode.
- Bug fix for checking expiration memberships that require a specific role. The bug from 3.5.5 causes a user with the role to be viewed as having access even if they are expireed.
- Improves file path update in 3.5.5 to equalize https/http when checking if a file to be moved exists. This allows it to check url paths in the attachment meta data that may have been improperly set or were set in http and not updated if the site was changed to https.
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