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Best WordPress Plugins

With the increasing number of plugins in WordPress, it becomes difficult to select a particular plugin from the trove. To solve this, we are going to take a look at some of the important features of each plugin against a standard set of criteria. However, no two plugins are alike. It depends on the demand of to which plugin to choose. Below are some common features that are present in all plugins across WordPress:

Unlimited Membership Levels:

In the incunabula of the membership, you think of having a membership of only 2-3levels. However, gradually, you will think of expanding your membership numbers.

Content Protection

Talking about content protection, it is the core of plugins. You can sell specific piece of content by depending upon pay-per-view basis.

Restrict Downloadable Content

While providing content to the members, make sure only the members are able to download the content and not the non-members. Most of the plugins restrict content download for non-members but not all.

Content Drip

If you have a lot of content to upload, you can drip the content. Talking in other words, content drip will allow you to upload your content slowly over a period of time.

Affiliate Program

You can ease the new member acquisition by offering the affiliate program. However, this is not available with all the plugins. But third-party plugins takes care of this feature.

Total Payment Gateways

If you will to charge for any access to your content, it is very important to not just access to “any” payment gateway, but go for those payment gateways that you need to make your business work.

Premium Support

Premium Support becomes handy at times. Premium Support will make your experience quite easier while you are learning using your new membership.

eCommerce Features

If you opt for other courses like ebooks, eCommerce features might prove to be of some importance to you. Some restrict digital products while some allow for physical products.

After covering the features of the plugins, here we are to have a look at different membership plugins:

Restrict Content Pro

This is a plugin that offers you everything you need, keeping it all simple. You can create unlimited membership packages as well as restrict access to posts and pages.

Apart from these, there are additional features like discounts and promotional codes, member management, full reporting and more. Custom membership pricing page can also be created by RCP.

Price: $42

Unlimited Membership Levels: YES

Content Protection: YES

Restrict Downloads: NO

Content Drip: NO

Affiliate Program: NO

# of Payment Gateways: 3

Premium Support: YES

eCommerce Features: NO – but integrates with WooCommerce

MemberPress

MemberPress is that plugin that aims at the ease of use. Membership and digital products can be easily managed by this plugin. Ability to set up reminders for various triggers like payment card expiry, approaching membership renewal dates are a new feature of MemberPress.

Price: $99/$199 developer

Unlimited Membership Levels: YES

Content Protection: YES

Restrict Downloads: YES

Content Drip: YES

Affiliate Program: YES

# of Payment Gateways: 3

Premium Support: 12 Months

eCommerce Features: NO

WooCommerce Memberships

Multiple membership rows can be created by WooCommerce Memberships. It can be paid or free. Members can even upgrade, downgrade, pause or cancel their membership. Discounted and trial memberships can be offered by you to those who are members. You can even sell items as a part of physical product purchase.

Price: $149 / single site license

Unlimited Membership Levels: YES

Content Protection: YES

Restrict Downloads: YES

Content Drip: YES

Affiliate Program: YES (Affiliates Pro extension)

# of Payment Gateways: MANY

Premium Support: YES

eCommerce Features: YES

MemberWing-X

Free evaluation version and other ample of features are offered by MemberWing-X. “3 minutes to fast-start membership site” is also featured by this plugin in which set up your membership site and gets it running in very less time.

Content drip, unlimited membership levels and ability to sell digital products are all included features of MemberWing-X. It lacks the feature Stripe Integration and the ability to mail the users before the expiration.

Price: $89 / $129 / $199

Unlimited Membership Levels: YES

Content Protection: YES

Restrict Downloads: YES

Content Drip: YES

Affiliate Program: YES

# of Payment Gateways: 6

Premium Support: 12 months

eCommerce Features: YES

MemberMouse

MemberMouse is a bit unique plugin as it doesn’t provide one-time purchase. It possesses recurring payments, starting with $19.95 and has three price tiers. Though being expensive than others, MemberMouse comes with appealing features as well as supports documentation that comprises 200+ articles and over 60 videos.

It also includes features like drip content, ability to up sell and down sell memberships, trial memberships.

Price: $19.95/month / $99/month / $299/month

Unlimited Membership Levels: YES

Content Protection: YES

Restrict Downloads: YES

Content Drip: YES

Affiliate Program: YES

# of Payment Gateways: 8

Premium Support: YES

eCommerce Features: YES

iThemes Exhange

iThemes Exchange is a plugin that provides free service for base plugin, but paid for membership. The ProPack provides even better features as below:

· Membership Add-On

· Recurring Payments

· MailChimp Add-On

· Access to any new Add-Ons released in 12 months

· Updates for 12 months

It also supports the drip content feature. You have varied options to select from amongst different payment gateways like PayPal, Stripe, CyberSource, 2Checkout and Authorize.net.

Price: $97

Unlimited Membership Levels: YES

Content Protection: YES

Restrict Downloads: YES

Content Drip: YES

Affiliate Program: NO

# of Payment Gateways: 5

Premium Support: 1 Month

eCommerce Features: YES

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Dieter Ziegler .