September 8, 2010 
We’d like to announce the release of Membership 1.0. Our developers have been hard at work for months and have created the most versatile and easy-to-use membership plugin currently available. WordPress users everywhere now have the ability to create sites like GigaOm, Izzy Video, or PSD Tuts, with the same powerful membership engine!
The Membership plugin lets you easily provide members-only news, support, tuition, downloads, private communities, videos and more!
Features of Membership 1.0
- User-friendly yet highly advanced drag-and-drop interface for assigning membership levels and subscriptions
- Built in ability to create free or paid subscriptions or any combination of multiple subscriptions
- Easy-to-use shortcodes for allowing users to select subscriptions at registration
- Customize shortcodes directly in the dashboard for use in restricting inline content
- Administration level rules – add rules that run on the administration side of the system, ie. hide menus, favourite actions, dashboard widgets, blog creation and plugins
- Multisite and BuddyPress compatible – install it on one site or make it available network-wide!
- BuddyPress Aware – control the visibility of blogs and groups, control group creation and private messaging access as well as control access to the standard BuddyPress menus
- BuddyPress signup and profile fields – if BuddyPress is detected the plugin will mirror the BP signup form, complete with extra profile fields
- Attractive signup statistics in the dashboard to help you monitor your membership
- Fully integrated with PayPal for single payments or ongoing automatic payments
- Powerful extensible Rule and Gateway APIs
- Unparalleled support for usage and customization, and ongoing development you can depend on
This plugin will turn your site into a money-making machine. It’s completely flexible so that you can build any kind of membership site you can imagine:
You can control access to all areas on your website with unique selections for each membership level:
- Downloads
- Categories
- Pages
- Posts
- Comments
- ‘More’ tags
- Galleries
- BuddyPress groups
- BuddyPress blogs
- And *any content or functionality* (like forums!), via multiple different shortcodes
The Membership Plugin is Flexible and Easy-to-Use
You select what to offer to different membership levels. You know your business. Don’t let some other inflexible plugin limit you in structuring your membership site. Our Membership plugin can be customized through the smooth drag-and-drop interface in unlimited combinations, ranging from free to multiple paid levels, tiered exactly the way you envision it.
Best of all, you can change and rearrange the levels to suit your business as it grows, without having to hire a programmer to wade through messy code anytime you want to make edits or offer a promotion.
Want to run an entire network of membership sites where each has the ability to set its own membership levels? This plugin can do that, and it’s all easily integrated with your chosen payment gateway. Multisite support allows any site in your network to be a membership site. You can even charge for this feature using our Supporter plugin.
Keep track of how well you’re doing with attractive signup statistics right inside your WordPress dashboard:
Fine Tune Your Subscriptions
- Offer free memberships that turn into paid subscriptions after x days
- Finite or indefinite subscriptions
- Serial renewing subscriptions
- Subscriptions that renew every 5, 10, 30, 90 etc. days
- And plenty more…
Highly Extensible Rule and Gateway API
Developers rejoice! You can basically do anything you want with this plugin. Easily integrate it with other plugins and custom solutions to suit your site’s needs. The Membership plugin is full of hooks, actions and filters, used liberally throughout the system. They’ve been added everywhere we thought they could be useful to enable any competent developer to be able to enhance or completely change parts of the plugins functionality and flow.
Want to try our Membership plugin for Free?
Membership comes in a Lite version, available at the WordPress.org repository. Grab your free copy and give it a test drive! Or head on over to our demo site and have a look at the plugin in use there.
No other WordPress Membership plugin can even come close to the level of support and ongoing development that you’ll get with this plugin. With our Upgrades and Support Guarantee you’ll never have a problem using this plugin with the newest versions of WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress. Get your hands on the Membership plugin today and start building the site you could only dream of before!
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Nice! Looks good guys.
Is there a comparison chart for Membership Lite vs. Membership 1.0?
Wow this looks pretty cool.
Nice very nice :))
It’s hard to make a decision between this and S2Member.. I still have not decided :D
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I’ve been looking for a plugin like this to manage paid subscription to my multisite and am considering a switch from S2. I’m wondering how this plugin works with protecting subdomains on the multisite. ex. if I have an article publishing subdomain associated with my main site, is there a way to protect the subdomain as well and not just pages within the main site?
How would this be done?
Thanks for the support. Seriously considering signing up for this plugin.
Cheers,
-Brant