MemberPress 1.9.27

MemberPress

MemberPress is an easy to use WordPress Membership Plugin. It will help you to instantly start charging your users for access to your content. For full details and features, check out the sales page.

Managing a membership site not only lets you share your passion and expertise with an audience with the same interests as you, but it can also lead to a recurring monthly income. It requires a lot of dedication and hard work to develop your extensive knowledge into content readers will pay for – whether it be blog pages, video collections, webinars, podcasts, online courses, or ebooks.

There are a lot of considerations you’ll have to keep in mind when choosing a membership site platform: content delivery methods, integration tools, ease of use, available support, and payment gateways, among others. So it helps to use a plugin that can offer you assistance with all these different factors.

That’s where comes in! Given the breadth of features, it offers that this article will discuss in detail, it’s your best choice for a membership site plugin. Whether you’re just starting to learn what a membership site is, or you’re ready to monetize your existing WordPress blog,  will get you moving in the right direction.

Why Choose MemberPress?

WordPress membership site plugin that makes it easy to charge users for access to your content and digital products such as software, ebooks, and online courses.

In addition to these powerful features,  allows you to grant and revoke access to posts, pages, categories, tags, feeds, communities, and digital files based on what products your users have purchased or subscribed to.

Since  is built on top of WordPress, you can create powerful and compelling membership sites that leverage all the tremendous features of WordPress and WordPress plugins, including content management, forums, and communities.

Additionally, the  Courses add-on is an excellent learning management system (LMS) designed to make building online classes incredibly easy – no coding required!  Courses is built right into to seamlessly create and sell your online curriculum.

MemberPress Plugin Review

Installation and Configuration

You can install the  plugin on your WordPress site either automatically or manually.

Automatic Installation

After purchasing , log in to and download the zip file for the plugin. Next, follow these simple steps to quickly install and activate:

1. Login to the WordPress dashboard on your site
2. Head to Plugins → Add New → Upload
3. Choose the.zip file you downloaded earlier
4. Click “Install Now”
5. Click “Activate Plugin”

You should now have a new menu item in your WordPress dashboard titled. You’ll use this menu to configure your membership site.

Manual Installation

After purchasing , log in to and download the zip file for the plugin. If for some reason you are unable to automatically install the plugin, you can follow these instructions to manually install the plugin via FTP.

1. Extract the.zip file you downloaded earlier, somewhere on your computer.
2. Contact your web host for instructions if you are unsure how to connect to your site using FTP
3. Using your favorite FTP Client (FileZilla is our favorite), connect to your website server.
4. Copy the extracted // directory from your computer to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory on the remote server. There are a lot of files so give it some time to complete.
5. Once it’s done, log in to your WordPress dashboard.
6. Head to the Plugins page and click “Activate” below the plugin.

You should now have a new menu item in your WordPress dashboard titled . You will use this menu to configure your membership site.

Note: A common mistake made here is extracting and uploading the plugin with too many folders. The final directory structure should be /wp-content/plugins/memberpress/. Some users will accidentally install it with an extra folder, like /wp-content/plugins/memberpress/memberpress/. The latter is incorrect and may cause the plugin to not function properly.

Configure 

You can set up your newly purchased  plugin in as little as five minutes. Get started by watching this short video clip: