Paid Memberships Pro
Membership and subscription management plugin for WordPress sites.
Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress plugin for building membership sites. It restricts access to posts, pages, categories, and custom post types by membership level, registers users, collects custom profile fields, and processes recurring payments through gateways such as Stripe and PayPal. The core plugin is free and open source under the GPL, with paid plans adding premium add-ons, support, and managed hosting.
Key features include unlimited membership levels, flexible pricing with trials, coupons, proration, and variable pricing, content dripping, member directories and profiles, customizable member dashboards and registration forms, and admin reporting on sales, signups, cancellations, and member activity. Integrations cover WooCommerce, LearnDash, LifterLMS, BuddyPress, bbPress, Mailchimp, Zapier, and others. PMPro Max adds managed WordPress hosting, membership-aware caching, transactional email, daily backups, Cloudflare CDN, Redis object caching, WebP image optimization, SSL and DDoS protection, site migration, and AI skill libraries.
PMPro is suited to creators, associations, nonprofits, course providers, communities, and content publishers running WordPress sites. It is packaged as a free self-hosted edition, a Standard plan for one site with premium add-ons and support, and Max plans for managed hosting, with monthly and annual billing options.
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