Membership Plugins or from memberships There are lots of them in WordPress. In this article by CourseWpress.com we explain the best ones.
To the webmasters and bloggers we are passionate about many things: organic positioning or SEO, copywriting, web security and the monetization.
And who does not?
But it turns out that when it comes to monetize a web page based on WordPress they almost always talk about:
- Monetize through advertising using Google Adsence or other web advertising sales company.
- Mount a ecommerce (we show you how you can create yours) and sell infoproducts or physical goods.
Forgetting that another effective way to monetization It is through the VIP areas or the empowerment of memberships. Yes, there is life (and possibility to monetize) beyond Adsence.
What is a membership?
A membership or membership in the world away from the keyboard, it refers to the member status that has a person or individual in terms of a certain organization, club, team. This membership grants them privileges to their owners. Those who are, enjoy certain Benefits.
Now in the world of webs and blogs: a web membership is the membership that a user has within a certain web page or Blog. This web membership gives the user who owns it certain privileges.
What privileges can I offer to users who purchase membership on my website?
In this particular the possibilities are almost endless. But what is offered in a membership will be determined by the niche. In this way, with some variants depending on the sector or the market spectrum in which you manage, with a membership you can offer.
- Items with additional training material in an exclusive area for members
- Guides, manuals and books in pdf
- Video tutorials
- Usable material: templates, documents, models
- Access to a forum or gated community
- Software licenses of your property related to your theme
If you are reading this, you have already thought about what you will offer to your subscribers. And at the same time you will be wondering what plugins can help you in the task of create a membership zone on your website.
WordPress membership plugins
The plugins listed here (as of the publication of this top) are compatible with the most recent version of WordPress.
Ultimate Member
The pluging Ultimate Member is promoted by its developers as:
The best plugin from memberships and User Management that exists. Which might sound pretentious. Although when you start using it you start to believe them.
Ultimate Member It has all the minimum necessary to create a functional membership area, on a page based on WordPress.
Highlights its section of User registration and management. At the same time, it is possible to expand its functionalities by means of extensions you pay as:
- Private content
- Enabling WooCommerce
- Incorporation with profiles Instagram
- Private messaging for members
Paid Memberships Pro
That more than sixty thousand users have created their membership sites with Paid Memberships Pro tells us something.
And is that Paid Memberships Pro it more than fulfills its mission. This plugin has been designed with additional content in mind. Highly recommended if yours is a training plan.
We like it for being flexible, powerful, safe, stable.
At the same time this beauty is completely free. Yes, it has no cost.
As if that weren't enough, its developers (the folks at strangerstudios.com) have a template special for webs of membership. The theme called Memberlite it is available in a paid version. Although the free It is good to start with, at the same time on the right foot.
Paid Memberships Pro It is one of our favorites when it comes to creating membership zones in our projects.
s2Member Framework
Another membership plugin fremium. It has the plus of integrating with PayPal Website Payments Standard.
The s2Member Framework Hide items you need to keep private from public view:
- pages
- Articles
- Urls
- Tags
- Categories
- Content portions
- Downloadable content (pdfs, audios, videos)
At the same time, facilitating user management and administration tasks: creation of profiles, logins, permissions and other procedures.
Simple Membership
The Simple Membership It stands out not only for its minimalism (which is evident in its name). But at the same time because it makes it possible to create unlimited membership levels. In other words, with the Simple Membership You can create as many membership plans and offers as you want. As an example:
- Basic
- Means, medium
- Premium
- Ninja
- Advanced Ninja
- And so on to infinity
At the same time it protects from the sight of those not members:
- Image Galleries
- Downloadable content
- Pages
- Articles
- Sections of pages or articles
Which membership plugin to choose?
There is no definitive answer to this question. Matter of tastes, needs, niches. Every webmaster you will have your favorites. As always, we invite you to try all the plugins that we list here before choosing.
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