Hi, WordPress enthusiasts and welcome to our
channel.
My name is Robert and in this video, I will
show you some of the best and free WordPress
membership plugins.
These plugins are great for content restriction,
paid member subscriptions as well as complete
user management.
Let's start with Ultimate Member
#1 ULTIMATE MEMBER
This plugin comes with a lot of features in
the free version.
You need to click on this button to automatically
create nice looking pages for the user profile,
user registration, login and anything you
need.
I think it could be perfect for creating advanced
online communities with lots of users.
Ultimate Member will enable you to create
almost any type of site where users can join
and become members with absolute ease.
On its dashboard, you can view data like the
number of users, approved, rejected, pending
review and so on.
The settings menu is filled up with lots of
useful settings for general things, access,
email, appearance and so on.
Forms can be designed in a drag-and-drop interface
where you can create separate forms for registration,
profile, and log in.
This plugin also has advanced user role management
where you can set administrative permissions,
general, profile access, homepage options,
registration options, log in and logout options
as well as delete options.
The member directories shortcode will help
you display all of your members or specific
members basically anywhere on your site where
you can use shortcodes.
Let me show you how it looks when using it
on a full-width page, for example.
It looks great, right?
These are the pages used by the plugin, and
you can control what you want to display on
the account page over here.
Cool.
The following membership plugin is Paid Member
Subscriptions.
#2 PAID MEMBER SUBSCRIPTIONS
This plugin offers a complete membership solution,
allowing you to accept member payments, manage
members, create subscription plans and restrict
access to premium content.
Once the plugin is active on your website
remember to check the anyone can register
box under general settings, and save your
changes.
Paid Member Subscriptions integrates seamlessly
with WooCommerce, allowing you to restrict
product viewing and purchasing to members-only
as well as offer special discounted product
prices based on subscription plans.
This plugin seems so easy to use.
I like it.
In its latest version, you can choose to create
the necessary pages automatically and then
activate some of these settings.
Payments can be easily accepted through PayPal
so you need to enter your PayPal email over
here and then click Continue.
Before doing that you need to select the currency
you want to accept payments in, by using this
drop-down.
In the following steps, you just need to create
some subscription plans and set up content
restrictions.
To add subscription plans access this menu
and click add new.
This would be the Premium plan which allows
people that buy it to access your premium
content.
Remember to click save subscription when you
are done.
To restrict content, go to pages or posts.
Edit the page you want to restrict and in
the content restriction meta-box set up display
options based on the plans created earlier.
You can also add custom messages to each piece
of content below.
The account, log in, password reset and register
pages need to contain specific shortcodes
that are provided in the description of the
plugin.
This could be useful if you want to create
those pages manually with Elementor, for example.
The last membership plugin in this video is
WP-Members
#3 WP MEMBERS
Looks like it was updated pretty soon which
is a good sign.
With WP-Members you can restrict premium content,
create custom registration fields, and more.
Let's see how it works after it has been installed.
The plugin settings can be accessed on this
menu and it seems that the allow anyone to
register feature of WordPress is not recommended.
So, let me uncheck this box and let the plugin
do the magic for me.
Also, I need to change some default settings
in the discussion tab.
Just check this box and you are good to go.
Follow all of the recommendations carefully
and then go-ahead to set up everything below
according to your needs.
Log in, register and user profile pages need
to be created before moving on, I guess.
I already have some pages from the previous
plugins but I am not sure they will work as
it should.
This plugin seems to be a little bit more
complicated and I won't go through all of
the settings in this video.
I would like to create a full tutorial on
the plugin you guys will pick, so let me know
in the comments which one should appear in
a step by step video?
Keep up the good work and see you in the next
one.
God bless you guys and be safe.
