WP-Members™

WP-Members™ is a free plugin to make your WordPress® blog a membership driven site. Perfect for newsletters, private blogs, premium content sites, and more! The plugin restricts selected WP content to be viewable by registered site members. Unlike other registration plugins and WordPress® itself, it puts the registration process inline with your content (and thus your branded theme) instead of the native WP login page. WP-Members™ works “out-of-the-box” with no modifications to your theme, but it is fully scalable for those that want to customize the look and feel, or want to restrict only some content. It is a great tool for sites offering premium content to subscribers, and is adaptable to a variety of applications.

Download the plugin

The plugin is currently maintained at the WordPress Plugin Repository. You may always find the current production version there.

• Download Current Production Version

Support documents

The primary support documents I have created are the Quick Start Guide, a visual support document to get you started, and the Complete Users Guide, which documents all of the features of the plugin.

• WP-Members™ Quick Start Guide
• WP-Members™ Complete Users Guide
• WP-Members™ FAQs

Tips and Tricks

• Customize the Stylesheet
• Loading Custom Stylesheets with wp_enqueue_style
• Customizing the Plugin with Pluggable Functions
• Display different menus based on login status
• Block content in a custom template
• Disable the WP admin bar
• Filter and Action Hooks
• Filter Hook Demos (some are free)

There is a difference between Posts and Pages in WordPress. If you use WP primarily as a CMS using pages for content, you should review this post:

• Protecting Pages

Translation and Localization

If you are using WordPress in a language other than English, the plugin has been adapted for localization.  A POT file and existing translation files are available.

• WP-Members™ Translations

Plugin Name

This plugin has been named WP-Members™ since its public introduction in 2006.  Back then, it was the only plugin doing what it does.  Since then, there have been some commercial plugins that have hijacked the name.  I have released some statements with information regarding the name:

• Statement regarding the use of the name wp-Member by SmartMediaPro
• Statement regarding the use of the name WP-Members™ by Others