Harder, Better, Stronger, Faster
The best membership plugin for WordPress just got even better – meet Membership 2. We completely rewrote Membership from the ground up to create a completely new, faster, more
intuitive and beautiful membership system.
Transform WordPress into a fully functional membership site. Provide access to downloads, online content, videos, forums, support and more through a flexible membership system. It’s simple to use and yet if you dig in, it’s incredibly adaptable. Membership 2 even includes set-and-forget automated recurring payments, so you can focus on providing value while getting income from your members.
Simpler, More Powerful Controls
With Membership 2 there’s no guesswork and no messing around with confusing settings. Our setup wizard will guide you through configuring your membership site for the best results.
Choose one from one of four base membership options, then configure the perfect system to fit your site’s goals.
- Standard Membership
- Dripped Content Membership
- Guest Membership
- Default Membership
Use Membership 2 to protect all things WordPress – pages, posts, comments, content below the “read more” tag, categories, menus, URLs, special pages, content by user role, media files, forums, downloads, videos, support...you name it
Put Your Content Behind a Paywall
Get paid with PayPal, Stripe,
Authorize.net, or good old fashioned manual payments. And, using automated processing and you can get paid without any hassle at all.
Membership 2 even includes 25 currency options out-of-the-box so you can take payments from just about anywhere in the world.
Membership 2 Pro
Need even more? Upgrade to
Membership 2 Pro and get access to all the features available in Membership 2 plus these premium add-ons:
- Fully integrated coupon system – offer special promotions and attract new users
- Admin-side protection rules – protect elements inside the WordPress Dashboard
- Custom post-type protection – protect post-types not native to WordPress core
- Advanced media protection rules – more control when protecting media
- Network Wide Protection – manage membership on your entire Multisite network from one place
Upgrade to the full version now »
Download Membership 2 today – the new standard in WordPress and Multisite membership systems.
To install
- Download the plugin file
- Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
Standard WP/WPMS (for blog by blog access)
- Upload the membership folder and all it contents to /wp-content/plugins folder on your site
- The path to the main plugin file is wp-content/plugins/membership/membership.php
To activate it on a blog by blog basis
- Log into the blog dashboard that you want to set up membership on.
- Go to Plugins > Installed
- Click on Activate under Membership lite system
Enabling your membership plugin
By default, the membership plugin is disabled when first installed and when you go your Membership Dashboard you will see it says Disabled.
You need to leave this as disabled until you have at least:
- Set up your categories
- Created and activated a basic level to use for strangers
- Assigned the stranger level in Membership > Edit Options panel
If you are running a live site and enable the plugin in your Membership dashboard all content will be automatically protected until you have set up the stranger level.
The Admin user
The membership system can initially be administered by the admin user and is always disabled on the front end of your site for this user, you can add other users to the membership administration group by editing them in WordPress and ticking the Membership admin box at the bottom of the User Edit page.
More Instructions on setup
More instructions and screenshots on how to configure the Membership plugin can be found on the
WPMU DEV site.
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