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Free and easy to use WordPress membership plugins are not a myth. Finding and getting started with them is simpler then you might think. Often website owners require visitors to sign up and become members of their platform before allowing access to the content. The solutions for WordPress users are a variety of membership plugins […]

If you're like most website owners, you might not know that enabling WordPress social login can help you increase your website's user engagement. And it all has to do with users forgetting their account passwords. For those unfamiliar, there's a thing called "password fatigue" and your website's visitors or customers might be suffering from it. […]

Paid Member Subscriptions is our most recent free WordPress membership plugin, allowing you to accept member payments, create subscription plans and restrict access to premium content. Our focus with this plugin is to make it super straight forward to setup a fully functional membership site in 4 easy steps: Add your PayPal address in the […]

WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” (named for jazz musician Clifford Brown) was released with over 2,000 contributions by 471 contributors. That's the largest number of contributors to a point release by far. Here's the short launch video for this version. As you can see, there are a lot of great things in this release like: REST API […]

Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic recently announced a new interface for WordPress.com called Calypso. You can now manage your blogs, publish and edit posts as well as read other people articles all from a new look and feel. This is great, however, what's truly remarkable is the fact that the new interface is written […]

Placeholder Labels Add-On hides all Profile Builder form labels and adds for each form field a placeholder with the title of the field. This can help you reduce clutter on the page, or shorten the length of your forms. Note: Requires at least Profile Builder 2.1.9, free or premium. Version 2.1 released: Added support for Login […]

If you own a WordPress site that allows front-end user registration you're probably looking for an easy way to set up a WordPress redirect after login or registration. Not only does this let you keep users out of the WordPress dashboard, but it also lets you send them straight to a specific page that you've optimized for them.

Admin Approval for new users is one of those must have features for every website that allows user registration. Sometimes, deciding who gets to be a user on your website is a good way to keep your user base clean and fight user registration spam. Taking it further, there are times when you need to […]

Sometimes, finding the right WordPress membership plugin can cause issues even for experienced developers. "A really steep learning curve" "Could not figure out how to set access levels" "Paid for the premium and got half ass support" "After activating this plugin, the speed of my site dropped dramatically" "Not developer friendly" These is all real […]

Creating a WordPress demo site with Multisite is a smart way to let potential customers try out your WordPress theme, widget, or plugin. This can be much more effective than presenting screenshots and descriptions of how your plugins or themes work. That's because a demo site gives potential buyers and customers the option to test […]