WordPress is a particularly flexible tool. It offers the possibility for website owners to create a members area just for their valuable users. The members area makes it possible to limit access to certain pages of a website to subscribers only. They will therefore be able to benefit from content that is specifically dedicated to them.
In this article, we will introduce the 10 best premium WordPress plugins which allow you to create an area whose access is only allowed to members of your website.
But before, if you have never installed WordPress discover How to Install a WordPress Blog in 7 Steps et How to search, install and activate a WordPress theme on your blog
Then back to why we are here.
1. PrivateContent
PrivateContent is a powerful yet easy-to-use solution for creating a true multi-level registration website. It is a plugin compatible with the new European legislation on the protection of user data.
Like most plugins in this list, it comes with a whole host of full features that are only waiting for you to install it.
Read our article on 6 premium WordPress plugins to create a forum
Protect your content with this WordPress plugin and let subscribers access it according to the role or status they have. In addition, it is one of the best selling plugins in this niche, and one that deserves special attention from you.
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2. Ultimate Membership Pro
Ultimate Membership Pro is an excellent WordPress subscription and content restriction plugin. It can manage users according to their package (free or paid) 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 ...
Consult our guide on How to add a private message to WordPress
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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3. WooCommerce Membership
The WooCommerce Membership plugin is a WordPress membership plugin that allows you to offer your visitors access to premium content and products. You will be able to create, manage and follow the subscriptions of your member area.
In addition to these powerful capabilities, you can also assign and revoke access to certain articles, certain pages, certain categories, keywords, digital files, etc ... according to the subscriptions of your users.
Read above all How to Create an Online Community with WordPress
Its features are among others: easy installation, powerful access rules, simple integration of payment gateways, works with all WordPress themes, full control over access to your content, the possibility of sell digital products securely, an affiliate program includes, a forum strictly reserved for premium members, and many others…
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4. WP Membership
The WordPress WP Membership plugin has the advantage to be multilingual and is delivered to date with almost 11 languages ​​in its directory. It will help you like the other WordPress plugins in this list to protect your content.
As main features, it offers among others: support for several payment gateways - Paypal, Stripe-, several price list models, 2 payment models pages dedicated to registration on the website, 5 models of profile section.
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But, its strength lies in the fact that you will hardly have to configure it, nor to customize it. Just install it and start protecting your content. This 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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5. User Profiles Made Easy
User Profiles Made Easy (UPME) is a WordPress plugin that manages the display of profiles as well as login and registration on your website. It adapts to all mobile devices, and works with any WordPress theme.
With this plugin, your users will no longer consult their profiles in the backend (Admin area) and your login and registration pages will be replaced by new, nicer pages that will improve the visitor experience, giving a more professional look to your strictly members-only site.
Its functionalities are among others: a user profile section, customizable profile fields, a member area, Multilingual support, control over access to content, a responsive layout, integration with WooCommerce, SEO optimized for search engines, and more
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6. Custom Login & Access
Custom Login & Access is above all a tool which offers a very large margin of personalization, and which allows you to personalize access to your member area. It focuses on the creation of a powerful form by combining optimal features dedicated to the security of this space.
Here are some of the features it puts at your disposal: the ability to edit the profile directly on the front-end of the website, mtemplate forms for login and registration,restriction of access to the public interface for users not connected, the restriction of access to dashboard pfor some subscribers, etc ...
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7. UserPro
UserPro is an all-in-one WordPress plugin that allows you to create a website complete and functional community. But if it appears in this list it is because it offers a powerful content management and restriction feature that you can use to create a website of e-learning.
It comes with features like registering on the website via social media accounts, viral marketing support, user badge management, account certification, public / private activity flows, etc.
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It is simply an all-in-one plugin, which you will have to try.
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8. Youzer
Youzer is another WordPress plugin packed with features and perfect for creating any website that wants to restrict its content. But it's not just for that, it can also help you turn your website into a true community platform.
Its features are plethoric and list them here would be to simply write an article dedicated to this plugin. Also note that at the level of the layout and overall appearance of this WordPress plugin, you will be seduced by its maturity and robustness.
See also How to restrict WordPress pages by user role
Simply check out his demo and make an opinion that will be specific to what you expect from any WordPress plugin this niche.
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9. Edivently LMS
The WordPress Edivently LMS plugin will help you easily create a LMS learning management system-, in order to give your website the power that an online academy must have.
Among other things, your instructors or teachers will be able to create and easily sell their courses on the internet, keep track of registrations, send a message to the whole class or to students separately, manage certificates and sale of courses via a single dashboard. As for the students, they will be able to follow their courses, and their progress via everyone's account.
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The other features available are: lesson planning, the ability to create quizzes and exercises, managing course expiration dates, a profile section for each user, support for several popular WordPress themes, easy management of sound and video and much more.
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Other recommended resources
We also invite you to consult the resources below to go further in the grip and control of your website and blog.
- How to disable the right click on your WordPress blog
- The key points to know that a WordPress theme is qualityHow to get links that point to your blog without much effort?
- How to create a custom layout with Elementor
- How to display a YouTube channel subscription button on WordPress
Conclusion
So ! That's it for this list of best WordPress plugins premium designed to create a member area strictly reserved for subscribers to your website. You can also use these WordPress plugins to block access to certain content on your website and much more.
If you already use a premium WordPress plugin that we omitted from this list, so suggest 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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