What is the best plugin for Members only website?

  • Hello,

    I was wondering if anyone had a preference on which ‘members only’ plugin to use and why? There are many plugins for this but not sure which is best for my purposes. Looking at WP-Members, Members, or Member access plugins.. Is this now built into WP3?

    What I need, the entire website is a members only site. (no open registration) I Looked at a couple of plugins for this but not sure which is best…

    If it matters, the site will have less than 50 members, a forum using the MINGLE Forum Plugin, blog, calendar and a few other normal webpages. The first home page should start with a user login.

    Thanks for your suggestions.

    C.

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  • I’ve tried a few, but i’ve never found a free plugin to be really useful, especially for support lacking.

    The best choices I can advertise are

    1st place) wishlist member plugin, it’s really amazing all the stuff you can do with it. And they offer a lot of support. Problem that it’s not exactly cheap: like 97$ (https://member.wishlistproducts.com/)

    2nd place) Membership from WPMU DEV. It’s more easy to use and much more scalable than Wishlist. But offers less opportunities.
    (https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership)
    To get it you have to subscribe premium.wpmudev.org site (having access a lot stuff). You can go cheaper than wishlist just subscribing for a month, taking the plugin and do not renew membership. You will keep the plugin but without upgrades.

    In any case if you’re not an expert of membership sites maybe it’s not a bad choice to subscribe to some membership sites (like the two I’ve told you). First of all you have help, support and material to study, then you can steal ideas to improve your membership site just looking what they do ??

    Unfortunately I do not know mingle so I cannot say anything about it.
    But I’ve used Simple Press forum in couple with wishlist in one site and it’s been a piece of cake. You can even allow different kind of members to have different access into different forums

    ‘Members’ and ‘role scoper’ are the best. WPMU’s membership has some glitches with payment methods and subscriptions .Support is not available from WPMU

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