WordPress eMember is a powerful WordPress Membership Plugin that can turn your existing or new WordPress site into a fully featured membership site easily.
Install the plugin, follow our video tutorials and within minutes you will have your own membership site ready to go!
WP eMember lets you selectively protect articles by creating various membership levels (example: Free, Basic, Premium, Ultimate etc.) and protect the content (posts, pages, comments etc) of your site. The plugin manages all the membership management side of things.
Best of all, we keep the plugin updated to work with the current version of WordPress, provide support to our customers and it doesn’t break when you upgrade.
What is a Membership Site?
A membership website will have specific content for members of the site. The content could be tutorials, videos, ebooks, digital downloads, news articles etc. Generally members have to pay a fee to become a member. It could be a one time fee or a recurring fee (billed per month/3 months/year etc) to get access to some or all of the members only content.
Membership Plugin Features
Below are just some of the notable features of the WP eMember Plugin:
Easy Installation & Setup
Easy installation like any other WordPress plugin. Upload, activate, follow our video tutorials and you will be up and running within minutes.
Fully Automated Membership System
Membership signup, profile maintenance, payments, account expiry, upgrade notification, cancellation, password reset is fully automated after you setup the plugin.
Content Protection
Selectively protect the full or a section of an article content. Create different membership levels and select what content (posts, pages, categories, comments) can be viewed by each membership level.
Bulk Protect Posts, Pages and Categories
You also have the option to bulk protect the posts, pages and categories of your site. Protecting a category will protect all posts under that category.
Unlimited Membership Levels
Create “Basic”, “Premium”, “Ultimate”, or any other levels you want. Charge more for higher levels of access all within the same WordPress site.
Use on Multiple Sites
When you buy the WP eMember plugin you can use it on as many sites as you own. There is no “Developer Option” here. One low price entitles you to use the plugin on all of your sites.
Easy Member Management
View your members, membership level, account status and much more. Easily upgrade members, move them to different membership level, pause their membership, or delete them entirely.
Manually Approve Members
You can choose to manually approve the member accounts. There is also an option to send them an email when you approved the member account.
Blacklist Users
Ability to blacklist IP addresses, email addresses or email address patterns. This can help you prevent problematic users from registering on your site.
Partial Content Display
Easily protect a section or sections of a post or page to create teaser content. Only members with the correct permission can view the protected section content. How to do it is explained here.
Assign Multiple Levels to Members
Multiple membership levels can be assigned to a member’s profile. In this setup the member will be able to access content from all the different membership levels that he has in his profile.
Automatic Membership Upgrade
Schedule automatic upgrade of your members from one level to the next. For example, after 30 days, you can automatically upgrade members from a “Silver” level to “Gold” level which will allow them to view the content of this new level.
Login Redirection
Set the first page your members see when they login. Even use a different redirection page for each membership level.
Custom Registration Fields
You can customize what fields are included in the member registration form. You can also add custom registration fields to the member registration form. More details on custom registration fields can be found here.
Ease of Design and Usage
Very easy to use the plugin and it seamlessly integrates into your existing WordPress site. No site or theme redesign necessary.
Bookmarking Feature
Your members can bookmark their favorite posts and pages on your site then view their bookmarks later. View bookmark feature details here.
Export Member Data to CSV File
Ability to export all your members profile data to a CSV file. You can open the CSV file in Excel for further processing, analysis, formatting, or printing.
Download Folder Protection
If you offer downloads for your members then you can use the folder protection feature. Users will need to provide valid login credentials to download any file from the protected folder.
Secure RSS Feeds
Secure RSS feeds allow your members to view their membership material in their favorite RSS reader (non-members cannot access the feed).
Stable Membership Plugin
Our plugin code-base is very stable. We put a lot effort into testing and developing our plugins so it doesn’t break your site after you upgrade.
Free Future Upgrades
Free future improvements and upgrades (there is no annual fee). You will always have access to the latest version of the plugin for free.
Works with HTTPS Pages
WP eMember plugin works with https pages out of the box (useful if you are using an SSL certificate on your website).
Easy PayPal Integration
Can be easily integrated with a hosted or standard PayPal button. Both one time and subscription/recurring payments are supported. View details here.
Braintree Payments Integration
WP eMember plugin can be easily integrated with the Braintree buy now buttons (onsite checkout) to accept membership payment via Braintree gateway.
WooCommerce Integration
WP eMember plugin can be integrated with the WooCommerce plugin to accept membership payment via WooCommerce.
Autoresponder Integration
It can be integrated with Autoresponders (AWeber, MailChimp, MailPoet). This way the members automatically get signed up to your list/campaign for email marketing purpose.
bbPress Forum Integration
Can be integrated with bbPress forum plugin. This allows you to apply protection to the forum topics and replies. You can also make certain forums for members only.
WordPress Affiliate Software Integration
Can be integrated with the WordPress Affiliate Software Plugin. So if you decide to boost your membership signups by introducing an Affiliate Program later (award affiliates that redirect visitors who become your member) then all you have to do is activate the other plugin.
WP eStore Integration
Can be integrated with the WordPress eStore (WordPress Shopping Cart) plugin so you can create any type of payment buttons for your paid membership content.
Detailed Documentation
Scared of getting worthless product documentation after you purchase the product? Checkout the membership plugin documentation before you make a purchase.
Great Support
One of our strong features is the support we offer to our customers. We always keep the plugin updated to work with latest version of WordPress. We guarantee that software bug (if any) will be fixed within a reasonable amount of time.
View the full list of WP eMember plugin features.
WP eMember Plugin Demo
Click on the button below to view a demo membership site created with this plugin
- (use username: free123 and password: testpass to log in as a free member)
- (use username: silver123 and password: silverpass to log in as a silver member)
Free WP eMember Addons
You also get access to the following WP eMember addon plugins with your purchase of our WordPress membership plugin.
Members Profile Display
The Members Profile Display Addon lets you display your member’s profile on a WordPress page so other visitors can view it. Easily show off your members list.
Captcha Addon
Using Captcha on the registration form is a great way to stop spam signups (if you offer free user registration). This plugin has a variety of captcha options that you can use on your member registration form.
Capture Affiliate Leads
This addon allows you to capture each WP eMember user signup as affiliate leads if the user was referred by an affiliate. This can be helpful if you are using our affiliate plugin.
Membership Pricing Table
This addon gives you the ability to create pricing tables for your membership levels. You can summarize the benefits of your main membership levels and how much it costs.
Email Broadcast
This addon gives you the ability to send an email broadcast to your members (all or a few selected members) from within the WordPress dashboard.
Documentation & Technical Support
- Documentation page (Contains all the documentation of our membership plugin)
If you are having any issue with this plugin then feel free to post it on the customer only support forum.
Please visit the demo and the documentation page to make sure you understand the capability of this plugin. You can also watch the video tutorials. If unclear let us know and we will try to clarify it for you.
Customer Feedback
We won’t waste your time with fake testimonials! Checkout the customer feedback page and see what some of our customers have to say about us.
A huge shout out to the team at Tips and Tricks HQ for providing the most fantastic, easy to use, plugins for WordPress. I highly recommend WP eMember product – simply awesome!
Lawrence Snow
http://www.sjcwebdesign.com/
You can also check the comment section below for more customer feedback.
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WP eMember Questions (F.A.Q)
Please leave a comment below if you have any questions
@Wendy, Yes the eMember can do this. The following FAQ will explain more about this.
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/wp-emember-frequently-asked-questions-faq-66
I need my members to be linked to the WordPress user roles, can this be done with the eMember?
I love the eStore and the affiliate plugins, they were relatively easy for me to install. I think I will grab this now.
@Adega,
I believe this maybe what you are looking for.
Section Protection for a Specific Member
This allows you to protect a page based on member id so only that member can view the page. You can see all the section protection here: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-protect-a-section-of-a-post-or-page-88
Hi,
I want to know if with this plugin is possible to build a Custom member profile so that i upload invoices (pdf files) to specific users and when they log in they see/download the .pdf from their profiles/download area.
Thanks!!
You can embed your videos on a WordPress post or page then protect that post or page with eMember so only your members can see the content of the page (which is the embedded video). You probably should check vimeo’s terms and conditions first though. I am not sure if they allow you to host videos that you are going to sell. Most users prefer to host their videos on amazon S3 then embed the video on a WordPress page.
My membership site will allow user to watch educational videos. I was planning to have Vimeo house my videos, with password only access for members. Would this setup work, or would you suggest an alternative.
Thanks
@DesignGirl, Yes this can be done. We just added this feature not to long ago so if you already have the plugin all you need to do is get an update and you should have this option. This also works good with the section protection option to protect a page for a specific member id.
With eMember can I have it so when a member (in this case a client) logs in it redirects them to a page specifically for them? This way I can set up a page where the client can view the work I am doing for them (only they can see it).
@Vince, The short answer is yes but to be more specific I need to know if you are going to use a WordPress Multi-site install or just install 3 copies of WordPress in 3 different directories.
Will this plugin work if blogs are installed in sub directories of the main site? For example, 3 blogs – all in a unique sub directory of the main domain.
Thanks
I just like this plugin. It is simple and does what I want it to do.
Awesome product! Just bought the bundled eMember & eStore.
Still in the process of creating and setting everything with the plugin. I’m having fun! 🙂
it is so good and thanks for that
@Sean, Yes this has been added and tested. Please see the following post:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/wp-emember-and-clickbank-integration-470
Have you tested or got this running with Clickbank? Just curious…
It basically means that you only allow logged in user to be able to purchase goods from you. If someone is trying to checkout without being logged into the site then the plugin won’t let them checkout instead it will send them to the URL specified in the “Redirection URL for Anonymous Checkout” field. Most admins simply use the URL of the login page in that field. You can also redirect to another page where you explain why the customer cannot checkout without logging in and what they can do next to continue checkout (for example log into the site or register for a free membership account then log in).
Hi,
Thank you for your last answer. I wanted to know how to integrate your Affiliate Plugin with Wishlist, and your answer was helpful. But… I’ve just bought several plugins here, and desactivated Wishlist to use eMember 🙂
So I have one question about using eMember with eStore : in a setting box, I can read :
“(Only use these options if you are using the WP eMember Plugin)
Only Logged In Members Can Checkout
When checked the plugin will not allow an anonymous user to continue shopping cart checkout unless the user logs in or registers for an account in eMember.
Redirection URL for Anonymous Checkout
When an anonymous user clicks the “Checkout” button in the shopping cart, the user will be reditected to this URL requesting him/her to log in or register for an account.”
So what about his Checkout ? Do I have to put a button on the redirection page to let him finish his payment ? Or is it already done ?
Thank you.
@Anne, you can use the section protection for this. You can read more about this here:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-protect-a-section-of-a-post-or-page-88
Hello, does emember allow protecting just one multimedia file, for example an mp3 file, while leaving another file free to be accessed.
One file would be a free or teaser version, while the protected file would be the premium file.
Thank you
Tank you for this fantastic easy to use WordPress membership plugin. I was able to setup my membership site with this plugin fairly quickly… very happy with it.
Glad to hear that you like the eStore plugin. The item selling for member will work the same way it does now. I just want to be sure as to what you mean by “all static pages”. These are WordPresss pages right? You can use both your posts or pages to deliver the membership content (eMember can protect the content of both your posts and pages). The eMember demo site will help you see this better.
Hello,
My website has all static pages and I use your e-commerce plugin (great by the way) for the store. I would like to set up a members area for articles and images and audio downloads, would I use the membership plug in and have all that content in a blog type area (ie using posts rather than pages)?.
And if so, if there were some items for sale in the membership area, as well as those already in the site now, would the e-commerce shopping cart widget work across both of those areas (for example if a member added an item to the cart from the membership area, and then continued shopping in the existing shop, would that all be one seamless process?)
Hope I’ve been clear enough!
Thanks
@David, the plugin should not slow down your site.
Hi there,
I need to offer users on a site a way to create a profile page and wondered if this plugin would suit my needs. I just need them to be able to login, add a profile and possibly have access to certain pages not accessible by normal users.
My only concern is that this plugin does a lot more than I need it to & am a little worried it will slow parts of the site down. Is this a valid concern? 🙂
Btw, I use your eStore plugin which is superb.
@Alex, I have sent you a few emails regarding the questions you have about our plugins. You may want to check your spam email if you are not receiving these emails.
why do you ignore my questions?… i do not get i…You’re nr.1 in my list of buying this plug in, the aff plugin and e-store and you ignore me… why’s that?
@Daniel, just to let you know our Affiliate Platform has s2 member integration:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/integrating-s2member-plugin-with-the-wp-affiliate-software-368
Also eStore/eMember is integrated with the Affiliate. The Affiliate integrates through the payment processor in this case the eStore.
I want to setup a WP MU membership site where members will be able to setup their own landing and sales pages that will have an affiliate program for members to promote the site. I am looking at S2member for the member management. S2member does not have an affiliate capability. Is emember and estore compatible with this concept?
@John, drip content in eMember is delivered using a feature called Auto Upgrade. Please review the documentation here to see if it will work for you:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-use-auto-upgrade-feature-to-drip-content-194
Does this allow for dripping content to members? I have a course that I want to deliver content weekly instead of all at once.
@Alex, We obviously cannot give you a definitive answer on that since we cannot predict the future but we have been doing this for quite some time and have no reason to stop in the near future. we actively work on all of our plugins and keep them upto date. Take a look around our site and follow the comment trail.
How long are you going to update the plugin?
@Jason, we don’t have a video tutorial for exactly what you asked for but this might help.
WP eMember has shortcodes that can be used to protect the content of a post or page for a particular member. So if you embed the gallery on a page then protect that gallery content for a particular member then only that member can view that gallery and purchase items from there.
This documentation has more details:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-protect-a-section-of-a-post-or-page-88
Do you guys have a video tutorial that shows how a photographer can use both WP eStore and WP eMember to put together a fully functional, free-standing WordPress photo store where each photo album of a client’s is fully password-protected and also allows selling of the hi-res digital photo files to the individual client? It sounds like half the equation is there with WP eStore but the other side of that is the password protection so that each client who wants to preview their photo proofs can do so without the public seeing their photos. It sounds feasible to do with both WP eStore and eMember but it would help to see a detailed video tutorial on integration. Thank you very much! -J
Hi, I believe this is the option you are looking for:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-use-public-profile-listing-276
Is there a way to display all users with a picture, bio and other basic information?
This plugins is working. And service is very good
great work..you have well defined features and functionality of this plugins
I am not sure about what you mean by customer registration form but you can place the registration form for membership signup anywhere on your WordPress site.
For user profile you create a WordPress page then place a shortcode there. You can see how it works by going to the demo site here and access the “Edit Profile” page from the “Members Home” drop down menu:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/eMember-demo/
Hi,
does your eMember plugin allow to a) insert a custom registration form anywhere on the site / main content area, and b) create a user profile page that is handled like a normal wordpress page and can be reached via the regular menu?
Thanks,
best regards,
Georg
wow great piugins.
I purchased both the eMember and eStore plugin and I love them! I’m currently working on partially integrating eMember with Mingle which seems to be going well.
Thanks for the great plugins!
When you create an account from the admin it doesn’t require any confirmation as it is a manual override. The membership account is created right then so it doesn’t send a “Complete Your Registration” email.
Hi,
How to prompt user to complete registration when I create a membership manually?
I once created a member through admin page but only email registration complete that sent to the member. How to send email for prompting user to complete the registration.
Thanks
I like this plugin and am looking forward to when I have enough money to purchase it for Leet Link (http://leetlink.com/). Can’t find a use for it on my blog, but on a community site, I found the perfect use for it!
@Séamus, The payment is once off (no recurring payment)
Is there an annual recurring fee of €49.95 for using eMember or is it a once off payment?
Hi Dene, If you are using the eStore and eMember then yes. There is a option that makes it so you have to be logged in as a member before you can make a purchase.
Hi is it possible to have a person become a member first or login before buying a digital file like pdf to record all transactions?