136 – WordPress Membership Plugin Comparison
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Chris Reed (chrisreedtech.com)
I came across this tool while I was working on images for my portfolio page to automatically take screen shots of webpages by entering the URL and the site will provide a link to download the image of the webpage. Just thought I’d share.
Listener Feedback
Tim R
Do you ever use the custom css boxes that come with themes like WooThemes and other premium themes?
Matt
What’s the difference between VPS and CDN?
WordPress Membership Plugin Comparisons
Paid Membership Pro
- PaidMembershipsPro.com
- Free & Paid ($497 for Configuration)
- 20 Add on extensions, plugins and extra code
- Content Dripping
- Supports Stripe
- Great Support
Members – Justin Tadlock
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/members/
- Free
- Role Manager, content permissions, short codes, private site
- Don’t lock yourself out!
Restrict Content – Pippin Williamson
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/
- Free
- http://pippinsplugins.com/restrict-content-pro-premium-content-plugin/
- Also have a one time membership fee for pro account
- Content Dripping
- Supports Stripe
- Great Support
S2Member
- http://www.s2member.com/
- Free
- One Time Fee ($69 or $129)
- Content Dripping
- Lots fo add-ons, mostly for pro accounts
WooCommerce Groups
- http://www.woothemes.com/products/groups-woocommerce/
- Free (http://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/)
- One Time Fee
- Supports Stripe
Digital Access Pass (DAP)
- http://digitalaccesspass.com/
- One Time Fee ($167 or $297)
- Content Dripping
Wishlist Member
- http://member.wishlistproducts.com/
- One time fee of $97 or $297
- Recurring Cost to continue to get updates
- Content Dripping
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I’ve used s2Member for a couple sites, and have been impressed by its functionality and documentation. In both cases I upgraded to the pro version for additional features.
For those interested in membership plugins, I recommend this post by Chris Lema: http://chrislema.com/finding-the-best-membership-plugin-just-got-a-little-more-complicated-in-a-good-way/. This post links to a couple of his other excellent posts. Chris talks about memberships frequently; look at the “memberships” tag on his site: http://chrislema.com/tag/memberships/. You can also watch his WordPress.tv video: http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/03/chris-lema-the-100-hour-work-week-to-passive-income-the-inside-scoop-on-membership-sites/.
Also, check out WinkPress’s detailed info on membership plugins: http://winkpress.com/membership-plugin/
Jul 11, 2013Hi, Dustin,
Jul 12, 2013Thanks so much for covering Paid Memberships Pro in your membership plugin roundup. Our goal really is to make a “community solution” for adding paid memberships to WordPress sites, which is why we make all of our code (including addons) available under the GPL license and free download from our site or the WP repo.
Everyone is encouraged to try it out for free in the WP repo. PMPro is best for sites that want to charge for access to certain content on their site. It works great out of the box (for free) but is easy for smart WP developers (like us) to customize to fit any specific needs you might have one your site. And that’s where PMPro really shines: it’s flexibility.
Thanks again.
JasonColeman Thanks for stopping by Jason! I’ll definitely be trying it out!
Jul 12, 2013Dustin,
Great podcast, i like to listen during lunch and the 20 – 30 minutes works just fine. See you in Columbus!
John Parkinson
Jul 16, 2013Hi Dustin,
Oct 6, 2013Thank you so much for including DigitalAccessPass (DAP) in your list. Appreciate it!
If you would like a review copy of DAP, just let us know and we’ll be happy to hook you up! And if you want a discount for your readers, we can work something out there too.
Cheers,
– Ravi & Veena
Co-Founders & Co-Developers
http://DigitalAccessPass.com
RaviJayagopal You are welcome! I wouldn’t mind having a review copy so I could learn more about it. If I feel that it’s a solution that would work for my audience, then we could workout a discount code or something. Email me at Dustin@YourWebsiteEngineer.com. Thanks!
Oct 6, 2013I can vouch for s2Member. I’m using it on many client sites to add paid membership together with PayPal and AVChat 3 video chat.
Mar 17, 2014Here’s a tutorial that I put together:
http://nusofthq.com/blog/how-to-build-a-paid-video-chat-membership-website-with-wordpress-avchat-3-and-paypal
Such a nice collection of membership plugins i found here.really great
Aug 24, 2014<a href=”http://www.themesrefinery.com/top-wordpress-membership-plugins-2014/”>WordPress Membership Plugins 2014
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Hello ,
I have already your article and comment.Wow, I got the lot of thinks from there. This article and every comment is very helpful.However, I want to add something, and recently I just released the membership plugin in the wordpress repository who is called “rs-members”. Before developing I just studied existence all membership wordpress plugin.I got many problems from the those.As a result; I just tried to include many useful features.Without programming skill any guys can easily maintain this plugin. I hoped this plugin will be helpful fill up your all demand. .Guys you can visit my “rs-members” from wordpress repository.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rs-members
Jul 19, 2015Thank you gentleman for patiently reading.