WordPress is an incredibly versatile CMS. You can use it to create a blog, an online store, a photo gallery and more. While that's probably not its main feature, you can also easily turn WordPress into a secure member's area.

In order to create a member area site with WordPress, you need one of the many plugins, free or paid, to extend the functionality of the WordPress members area. You can't say that one plugin is better than another, because after all, it depends on your needs. We therefore suggest you have the choice with this list of the best premium plugins.

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1. Ultimate Membership Pro

Ultimate Membership Pro is a great WordPress Plugin subscription premium and content restriction. It allows users to be managed according to their package (free or premium) by creating exclusive access levels.

It will therefore be possible to protect all the content of your website, or just part of it. It will be for example a course, a lesson, a page, a product, a category, an image, etc ...

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Its main functions are, among others: content protection, multiple access levels, support for multiple payment gateways -PayPal, Authorize.net, Stripe, 2CheckOut, Bank Transfer-, partial content protection, and much more…

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2. Opt-In Content Locker

Opt-In Content Locker is another WordPress Plugin premium which offers a fairly innovative content restriction system. It actually uses a popup to hide the content you want to restrict access to.

The popup is used as an e-mail collection form, and requires the user who wishes to access the content to provide their contact details. After that, the content becomes visible to the user in question.

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It is a very simple plugin to use. You just need to frame the content to be hidden with the shortcodes [ulplocker id = "POPUP_ID"]… [/ ulplocker].

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3. ARMember

ARMember is a WordPress Plugin content protection premium. It is a unique solution that allows you to sell subscriptions on any website. It has a whole range of tools that allow you to protect completely or partially its contents.

Another of its features is the fact that it offers a free option that is a bit limited in terms of features. Speaking of features, this powerful WordPress plugin offers among others: The possibility of plan its contents, support for several subscription plans, easy configuration, migration between different subscription plans, WooCommerce support, several models of forms, and more.

It is also a reference in this niche.

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4. WP Membership

The premium WordPress plugin WP Membership has the advantage to be multilingual and so far comes with nearly 11 languages ​​in its repertoire. He will help you as others do WordPress plugins from this list to protect your content.

Its strength lies in the fact that you will hardly have to configure or customize it. Just install it and start protecting your content. This premium WordPress plugin also has a free version that does almost everything. Except that the creation of the number of levels is limited.

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As main features, it offers among others: the support for multiple payment gateways - Paypal, Stripe-, several price grid models, 2 models of pages dedicated to registration on the website and 5 profile section models.

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5. Restrict Content for Visual Composer

Restrict Content for Visual Composer is a WordPress extension premium which allows you to very easily provide premium content to your subscribers, or display content adapted to users' access levels. It's a Visual Composer extension so you won't have to worry about potential shortcodes to use.

It is a very easy to use WordPress plugin. You just have to select the content you want to display or the one you want to limit access. No coding skills are required.

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Spend 30 seconds restricting your content to Visual Composer and make the rest of your time profitable for more important work.

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Conclusion

Here is ! That's it for this list of the best premium WordPress plugins which will help you improve your members area. If you are already using a premium WordPress plugin which we have omitted from this list, then submit it to us.

However, you can also consult our resources, if you need more elements to carry out your projects of creation of Internet sites, by consulting our guide on the WordPress blog creation or the one on Divi: the best WordPress theme of all time.

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