Paid Membership Subscriptions Pro helps WordPress sites manage membership plans, payments, member accounts, and access to premium content. It can support paid services, courses, coaching, consultancy, content hubs, private stores, associations, clubs, directories, and online communities.

How do visitors join and manage a membership?

Create hierarchical plans for free or paid memberships, with custom durations and one-time or recurring payments. PayPal and Stripe support recurring payments. Plans can include a free trial or sign-up fee, or end after a set number of billing cycles. Discount codes can apply percentage or fixed-amount reductions to selected plans.

Front-end shortcodes and blocks can provide registration, login, account, payment history, and password recovery forms. Visitors can select a membership during registration. Members can edit account details and manage their subscriptions, including renewing, upgrading, cancelling, or abandoning a plan. Administrators can review member entries, payment statuses, and payment logs.

How do membership plans control content and products?

Restrict full posts, pages, custom post types, or portions of content according to login status or subscription plan. Gutenberg blocks and Elementor sections or widgets can also use access rules. The Global Content Restriction add-on extends rules to post types, taxonomies, and terms; other listed add-ons cover forums and topics. Navigation Menu Filtering can show menu items according to login status and selected plans.

WooCommerce integration can limit shop or product viewing and purchasing to members, set member discounts by plan, and let clients buy membership plans through WooCommerce Checkout. Automatic refunds from the WordPress dashboard, automatic login, admin bar hiding, account-sharing prevention, default page redirects, and reCAPTCHA v2 or v3 for forms are also listed tools.

Which settings extend billing and subscriptions?

Pro add-ons listed for Agency and Pro versions include gift subscriptions, pausing recurring subscriptions, multiple currencies, pro-rated upgrades and downgrades, tax and EU VAT controls, group memberships, content dripping, multiple subscriptions per visitor, order bumps, invoices, file restriction, Mailchimp, Brevo, and Authorize.Net. Availability depends on the listed license tier.

The add-on catalog also includes Email Reminders, Advanced Subscription Toolkit, LearnDash, bbPress, Global Content Restriction, Navigation Menu Filtering, Fixed Period Membership, and Pay What You Want. These are listed for Agency, Pro, or Basic versions. Fixed Period Membership can set a specific end date, while Pay What You Want can accept donations or flexible subscription payments.

How do you set up the member journey?

Install and activate the add-on in WordPress, then create subscription plans and the pages members need. Add the relevant registration, login, account, content restriction, and payment history shortcodes or blocks. Configure WooCommerce, Elementor, or any add-ons used by your website, then test registration through subscription access.