WordPress websites have always been a favourite for all types of clients because of its simplicity and easy of use. Since WordPress ecosystem has a very less learning curve all sorts of websites are created using this CMS.
Since all sorts of people use WordPress for their business, commercial and personal websites the need for each and everything has been driven with either a plugin in creation or a new theme in creation.
Hence we have started ending out today about membership driven WordPress themes and its needs and requirements as well as several plugins which we can use to easily have a membership based WordPress theme readily working.
**The following membership plugins have been found to be useful: **
Membership 2: WPMU Dev has created this plugin which is known to create good plugins. Although the free version is limited the paid version does pack all the goodies one might ever need from a membership website.
Simple Membership: Adds a simple membership functionality to the website which means you can restrict content for non members and have membership access levels and based on that restriction can be done. Paid membership is handled using PayPal.
As said this is a very simple membership and can be used for those who just need to restrict content for certain members.
Other 2 known and useful plugins are:
PMP Pro: Nice and advanced and very vast plugin. Unlimited levels with payment recurring as well as one time and members management area and tools provided.
WP-Members: It is also a good choice and advanced as well and likes to call itself a framework with many features but is more suitable and recommended for developers to have something built custom.
S2Member: One of the oldest membership plugin this has been a great plugin with PayPal integration also allowed so basically a subscription based membership can be easily run on your website. The Pro version packs more features like integration with several APIs like mailchimp and AWS which is for storing of exporting your members easily to a newsletter campaign.
Forums: Many users who just want to have members for interacting and asking
questions and helping each other can make use of a forum instead of having membership plugins instead.
The default bbPress from WordPress is good enough to let you have a full ?edged forum. There are however several hosted and non hosted forum which are compatible with WordPress ecosystem but bbpress for a small website should be enough/
Role Management: Many times it is just role management that is needed to block something in admin level as well as on front end level for any WordPress website and at that time there is no need for a membership plugin and role management plugin is sufficient to take care of it all because if you have a staff internal website there will be no external registration and login as well.
Multi Author with Author Cards: Multi author WordPress websites also require multiple authors to login. However there isn’t much other than the fact that authors can contribute their own articles and can edit their own articles and cannot edit or delete any article.
However if you have a popular blog then it makes sense to have a nice author bio section or author cards displayed at the bottom or start of the article to have a good feeling about the website for people to entrust upon your website.
Conclusion: Job in a free WordPress theme Show archive.org snapshot development is to create a theme which is basically compatible with all of the above conditions so that no matter what kind of a membership site the user creates it falls and easily plays well for all the conditions and circumstances.
