What is Members?

Members is a roles and capabilities based WordPress membership plugin. It gives your users the ultimate member experience by giving you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users.

Members allows you to set permissions to restrict content on your site by providing a simple user interface (UI) for WordPress’ powerful roles and capabilities system, which has traditionally only been available to developers who know how to code this by hand.

Members Features

  • Roles: Edit, create, clone, and delete roles, as well as the capabilities assigned to them.
  • Multiple User Roles: Give one, two, or even more roles to any user.
  • Explicitly Deny Capabilities: Deny specific capabilities to specific user roles.
  • Content Permissions / Restricted Content: Protect content to determine which users (by role) have access to post content.
  • Shortcodes: Shortcodes to control who has access to content.
  • Widgets: A login form widget and users widget to show in your theme’s sidebars.
  • Private Site: Make your site and its feed completely private.
  • Administrator Rescue Link: Restore your Administrator access from the login page if you can no longer access WP Admin.
  • Reset Roles: One-click reset of the five default WordPress roles to their original capabilities from Members → Settings → Miscellaneous.
  • Plugin Integration: Members is highly recommended by other WordPress developers. Many existing plugins integrate their custom roles and capabilities directly into it.
  • Import / Export Roles: Export roles (and optionally plugin settings) to a JSON file, and import them into another site with conflict detection and preview.

Included Add-ons

Members includes ALL of its add-ons bundled for free — just activate the ones you need from Members → Add-Ons.

  • Members – Block Permissions: Hide or show blocks in the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) based on user logged-in status, role, or capability.
  • Members – Privacy Caps: Creates additional capabilities for control over WordPress’ privacy and personal data features (GDPR).
  • Members – Admin Access: Allows site administrators to control which users have access to the WordPress admin via role.
  • Members – Core Create Caps: Adds the create_posts and create_pages caps to posts/pages to separate them from their edit_* counterparts, providing more flexible editing capabilities.
  • Members – Category and Tag Caps: Creates custom capabilities for the core category and post tag taxonomies, giving precise control over who can manage, edit, delete, or assign categories and tags.
  • Members – Role Levels: Exposes the old user levels system, which fixes the WordPress author drop-down bug when users don’t have a role with one of the assigned levels.
  • Members – Role Hierarchy: Creates a hierarchical roles system.
  • Members – ACF Integration: Creates custom capabilities for the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin for managing with Members.
  • Members – EDD Integration: Integrates Easy Digital Downloads plugin capabilities into the Members roles system.
  • Members – GiveWP Integration: Integrates GiveWP and GiveWP Recurring Donations plugin capabilities into the Members roles system.
  • Members – Meta Box Integration: Integrates Meta Box plugin capabilities into the Members roles system.
  • Members – WooCommerce Integration: Integrates WooCommerce plugin capabilities into the Members roles system.

Like Members?

The Members plugin is a massive project with thousands of lines of code to maintain. A major update can take weeks or months of work. We don’t make any money directly from this plugin while other, similar plugins charge substantial fees to even download them or get updates. Please consider helping the cause by:

Need Support?

For free community support, visit the Members plugin support forum on WordPress.org.

Development

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