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<h4>A flexible, well-supported, and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content from your WordPress site</h4>
<p>The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members can view the protected content.</p>
<h4>Unlimited Membership Access Levels</h4>
<p>Set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver, gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create.</p>
<h4>Flexible Membership Duration Options</h4>
<p>Simple Membership supports multiple membership duration models, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed duration (days, weeks, months, or years)</li>
<li>No expiry / until canceled</li>
<li>Fixed future expiry date</li>
<li>Annual memberships (calendar or fiscal year based)</li>
<li>Subscription-driven access</li>
</ul>
<p>Each membership level can be configured independently to match your access rules.</p>
<h4>User Friendly Interface for Content Protection</h4>
<p>When you are editing a post or page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your members.</p>
<p>Non-members viewing a protected page will be prompted to log in or become a member.</p>
<h4>Have Free and Paid Memberships</h4>
<p>You can configure it to have free and/or paid memberships on your site. Paid membership payment is handled securely via PayPal. Membership payment can also be accepted using Stripe or Braintree payment gateways.</p>
<p>Both one time and recurring/subscription payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe.</p>
<p>You can accept one time membership payment via Braintree payment gateway.</p>
<p>Option to make membership payment buttons using the new PayPal Checkout API.</p>
<p>There is also option to use PayPal smart buttons for membership payment.</p>
<p>You can enable email activation or email confirmation for the free memberships.</p>
<h4>Membership Payments Log</h4>
<p>All the payments from your members are recorded in the plugin. You can view them anytime by visiting the payments menu from the admin dashboard.</p>
<h4>Developer API</h4>
<p>There are lots of action and filter hooks that a developer can use to customize the plugin.</p>
<p>There is also an API that can be used to query, create, update member accounts.</p>
<h4>Member Login Widget on The Sidebar</h4>
<p>You can easily add a member login widget on the sidebar of your site. Simply use the login form shortcode in the sidebar widget.</p>
<p>You can also customize the member login widget by creating a custom template file in your theme (or child theme) folder.</p>
<p>Option to show a password visibility toggle option in the login form.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Read the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">setup documentation</a> after you install the plugin to get started.</p>
<h4>Plugin Support</h4>
<p>If you encounter any issues with this plugin, please visit our website to post on the support forum or contact us directly.<br />
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/</p>
<p>You can create a free forum account to ask your questions.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with any WordPress theme.</li>
<li>Ability to protect photo galleries.</li>
<li>Ability to protect attachment pages.</li>
<li>Show teaser content to convert visitors into members.</li>
<li>Comments on your protected posts will also be protected automatically.</li>
<li>There is an option to enable debug logging so you can troubleshoot membership payment related issues easily (if any).</li>
<li>Ability to customize the content protection message that gets shown to non-members.</li>
<li>Ability to partially protect post or page content.</li>
<li>You can apply protection to posts and pages in bulk.</li>
<li>Ability to use merge vars in the membership email notification.</li>
<li>Membership management side is handled by the plugin.</li>
<li>Ability to manually approve your members.</li>
<li>Ability to import WordPress users as members.</li>
<li>Search for a member’s profile in your WP admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Filter members list by account status.</li>
<li>Filter members list by membership level.</li>
<li>Site admins can save private notes about members, providing a convenient way to keep track of important information.</li>
<li>Can be translated to any language.</li>
<li>Hide the admin toolbar from the frontend of your site.</li>
<li>Allow your members to delete their membership accounts.</li>
<li>Send quick notification email to your members.</li>
<li>Email all members by membership level, with an option to filter by account status.</li>
<li>Customize the password reset email for members.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member registration form.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member login and password reset form.</li>
<li>The login and registration widgets will be responsive if you are using a responsive theme.</li>
<li>Ability to restrict the commenting feature on your site to your members only.</li>
<li>Front-end member registration page.</li>
<li>Front-end member profiles.</li>
<li>Front-end member login page.</li>
<li>Option to configure after login redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after registration redirect for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after logout redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option force the members to use strong password.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your terms and conditions before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your privacy policy before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to hide the registration/join option. Useful if you prefer visitors not to see the registration option on your site.</li>
<li>Option to automatically logout the members when they close the browser.</li>
<li>Ability to forward the payment notification to an external URL for further processing.</li>
<li>Option to configure whitelisting for user email addresses to allow registration only from specific email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Option to configure blacklisting for user email addresses to block registration from certain email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Allows you to set an active login limit for members, helping to prevent account sharing.</li>
<li>Option to enable and set failed login attempt limit, which helps to protect against brute force attacks.</li>
<li>Option to enable login event tracking, allowing you to view the history of member logins.</li>
<li>Option to reset the settings and data of the plugin to start fresh.</li>
<li>Option to configure PayPal payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Stripe payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Braintree payment buttons for memberships (one-time payments).</li>
<li>Free Social Login addon that lets users log in with their Google or Facebook accounts.</li>
<li>The plugin is actively maintained and we are working on new features for the plugin.</li>
<li>Browse the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> to learn more about the features of this plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Language Translations</h4>
<p>The following language translations are already available:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Spanish (Venezuela)</li>
<li>Chinese</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
<li>Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Macedonian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Dutch (Netherlands)</li>
<li>Dutch (Belgium)</li>
<li>Romanian</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Latvian</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
<li>Catalan</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)</li>
<li>Slovak</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Mexican</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
</ul>
<p>You can translate the plugin using the language <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/translate-simple-membership-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation documentation</a>.</p>


Simple Membership


upon reflection, the devs are doing an amazing job. They're providing an intricate piece of software to the community for free. Thanks guys.



there's a little room for improvement in terms of the docs and the core functionality. But overall, I'd recommend this software to others.


Not there yet; but impressive nonetheless 👏

Simple Membership is an excellent plugin that delivers exactly what it promises. The setup is straightforward, and it offers all the features needed for content protection and membership management. Its flexibility and compatibility with other plugins are particularly impressive. Highly recommended!

Excellent plugin - highly recommended


The plugin is simple to set up and use. It is necessary to read the documentation, but it clearly explains how to set it up and use. Well done!


Simple, yet powerful

Simple membership plugin adds membership functionality to your site. Protect members only content using content protection easily.

Daniel Iser

Code Atlantic

<p>Content Control is a transformative plugin, allowing you to fine-tune every aspect of your WordPress website’s content. Decide who gets to see what, where, and when – be it pages, posts, widgets, or individual block visibility using our handy shortcode. Your content, your rules, executed perfectly!</p>
<p>Content Control is intuitive and powerful, designed for all users—whether logged in, holding specific roles, or even guests. Need top-tier content restriction or a dependable access manager for your site? Look no further. We’ve expanded our controls to include Gutenberg and Full Site Editor, giving you unmatched command.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p>Discover what Content Control brings to your table:</p>
<ul>
<li>Full control over your site’s content, restrict user access with ease!.</li>
<li>Create a <strong>Paid Membership</strong> sites using your favorite or existing ecommerce plugins.</li>
<li>Set up a seamless paywall for your content, providing teasers for users and prompting them to purchase access.</li>
<li>Per block controls for Gutenberg and Full Site Editor, including user roles, device type, and more.
<ul>
<li>Responsive block controls with customizable breakpoints.</li>
<li>Control block visibility by user status, roles, device type & more.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Restrict access to pages, posts, widgets, and individual blocks based on user status, roles, device type & more.</li>
<li>Offer membership tools for crafting membership access and members-only content.</li>
<li>Provide responsive block designs that adapt to varying device sizes.</li>
<li>Lockdown content selectively for improved user experiences.</li>
<li>Implement role-based redirections to guide users effectively.</li>
<li>Unlock the power of subscription content and monetization strategies.</li>
<li>Safeguard specific categories, tags, custom post types, and custom taxonomies.</li>
<li>Manage access to <a href="https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-attachment-pages/" rel="nofollow ugc">media attachment pages</a> for logged in/out users or specific user roles.</li>
<li>Display a custom message to users who do not have permission to view the content.</li>
<li>Display specific content on a page or post to logged in users only, specific user roles, or logged out users.</li>
<li>Redirect users without access permission to a login page, website homepage, or a custom URL.</li>
<li>Highlight subscriber-only content for premium users.</li>
<li>Use the <code>[content_control]</code> shortcode to protect content inline and cater to subscriber preferences.</li>
<li>Control widget visibility by selecting the user type that can view each widget.</li>
<li>Conditionally show coming soon or maintenance mode pages based on various rules.</li>
<li>Restrict access to your site’s REST API endpoints.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://contentcontrolplugin.com/docs/?utm_campaign=plugin-info&utm_source=readme-description&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=documentation-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Content Control Documentation</a></p>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
<p>Content Control Pro, with advanced features like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Content Teasers for Paywalls, giving your users a sneak peek, leaving them wanting more.</li>
<li>Optimize your WooCommerce & Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) & Paid Memberships Pro experiences with advanced rules.</li>
<li>Schedule blocks, controlling content visibility timings using customizable scheduling rules.</li>
<li>Dive deeper with advanced block rules and a boolean editor.</li>
<li>Customize login, registration & recovery page urls. Custom login urls give a more personalized user experience.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://contentcontrolplugin.com/pricing/?utm_campaign=plugin-info&utm_source=readme-description&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=upgrade-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Content Control Pro</a></p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Content Control handles media access via content on media attachment pages but won’t restrict direct server-level access to media files.</p>
<h4>Passionately Crafted by Code Atlantic</h4>
<p>At <a href="https://code-atlantic.com" title="Code Atlantic - High Quality WordPress Plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Code Atlantic</a>, we’re passionate about crafting tools that empower your digital journey. Content Control is a testament to our commitment to quality.</p>
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Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More

What can I say, everything about using this plugin is super easy ... thanks to the developers.

Awesome Plugin

Efficient Plugin


Excellent plugin for fine tuning who can see the various parts and pieces of your website. 


Awesome Plugin For Custom Content Access Experiences


Does what it's supposed to, very good support. 


Great plugin


Very happy with this plugin. It provides the exact functionality I was looking for! Thank you!


Exactly what I needed

Works perfectly

Restrict content based on login status, user roles, device type & more. Monetize your content with a paywall or members-only content.

Simple Membership vs Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More