Membership & community plugin with user profiles, registration & login, member directories, content restriction, user roles and much more.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.4 (1.4K)
- Updated
- 8 days ago
Simple Membership
Simple membership plugin adds membership functionality to your site. Protect members only content using content protection easily.
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #873 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 3.6M
- 3,611,646
- Downloads, 30 days
- 58.3K
- 6.7K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5
- 475 reviews
- Last updated
- 10 days ago
- Oct 21, 2026
- Version
- 4.8.6
- 116 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 21, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | May 30, 2014 |
| Support, last two months | 8 of 10 threads resolved (80%) |
Reviews
4.6 / 5 from 475 reviews
| 5 stars | 399 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 25 |
| 3 stars | 10 |
| 2 stars | 9 |
| 1 star | 32 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
A flexible, well-supported, and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content from your WordPress site
The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members can view the protected content.
Unlimited Membership Access Levels
Set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver, gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create.
Flexible Membership Duration Options
Simple Membership supports multiple membership duration models, including:
- Fixed duration (days, weeks, months, or years)
- No expiry / until canceled
- Fixed future expiry date
- Annual memberships (calendar or fiscal year based)
- Subscription-driven access
Each membership level can be configured independently to match your access rules.
User Friendly Interface for Content Protection
When you are editing a post or page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your members.
Non-members who try to view a protected page will be prompted to log in or become a member.
Have Free and Paid Memberships
You can configure your site to offer free memberships, paid memberships, or both. Paid membership payments are handled securely via PayPal, Stripe, or Braintree.
Both one-time and recurring (subscription) payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Where can I find complete documentation for this plugin?
You can find the full documentation for this plugin on the Simple Membership plugin documentation page.
Latest changelog entry
- Fixed a login loop that could happen when the login form was submitted shortly after the member’s login session expired. The login request is now processed normally and a fresh login session is created. Thanks to freetiermorioka555 for reporting this.
- The logout request now clears any leftover (expired) login cookies from the browser, even when the login session is no longer valid.
- Fixed a grammatical error in the German translation of the password reset message. Thanks to Annika for reporting this.
Screenshots
Example of the member registration page. 
Example of the member login page. 
Example of the membership payment landing page. 
Example of the settings menu.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.