Best membership management plug-in

[slurp]

Hi, again!

I would like to add membership management to my Elite site.
This means a custom main menu (additional menu items: log-out etc.) and a blog with content visible only for logged-in users.

Can you recommend a good plug-in (or possibly one for the menu, one for the content management etc. if there isn’t one that could do it all) that would fill those needs? I noticed that you have such features for instance here on this site.

Best regards!

[Bill Robbins]

That is a great question. I would take a look at a plugin called Restrict Content (https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/). There’s also a paid “pro” version that adds more features.

I do use one here called WishList Member, but I would not recommend it. It’s not a very good plugin, but when I set things up, there were very few options out there. Now I’m pretty well locked in.

Take care,
Bill

[slurp]

Hi!

Thanks for that suggestion. It says on the WordPress site that they haven’t updated that plug-in for two years. That seems quite long for no updates — it might be that they have stopped developing it?

I am now playing around with a plug-in called Members, but it is somewhat lacking, because it only hides the post content — not the whole post (title, pictures — the whole works), which I would prefer.

The navigation menu customizing was very easy with a plugin called Nav Menu Roles. With that I could make menu items that show only for logged-in, logged-out user or even specific user groups.

By the way, is it possible to have two separate blog feeds (i.e. based on category) on the same website?

Thanks!

[Bill Robbins]

The WordPress systems that the membership plugin works with haven’t changed really in years, so I don’t imagine it would be any problem. Pippin is one of the best plugin developers in the world and this one is pretty widely used.

Personally I would go with the Pro version. Pippin is still using and working with that one for sure. Plus with the paid one, you’ll have support too.

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WordPress generates lots of RSS feeds. There’s an article in the Codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds that can show you how they are formatted. For categories, scroll down just a bit until you find the Categories and Tags headings.

Take care,
Bill

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