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WordPress Membership Plugin Review 01-25-2015

There must be over 25 WordPress membership plugins available at the present moment .So how does a developer or owner choose the right one for a particular project? Here a main list of three key points that you must make a judgment call on. I will also list a further list of eight key points that are more focused connected to particular needs that you might have connected to choosing the right membership plugin for your project.

Ten key features connected to choosing the right plugin for your project

1. How easy is the plugin to use on day-to-day basics?
2. How good is the support and training materials?
3. How easy is it to learn
4. Payment Gateway Diversity
5. E-Commerce Support
6. Ease Of Use
7. Sequential Delivery/drip content
8. Concurrent Accounts/multiple accounts like for office that has 3 to 20 seats
9. Upsell/Down-sells
10. Prorating Charges

I will give much more information on these 10 key points in our first of serious of four podcasts we doing on WP-Tonic on WordPress and membership plugins in 2015.

Here a list of some of the things your plugin might not do!

1. It’s not a given that they’ll create a directory of members
2. It’s not a given that they’ll create a special page for each user
3. It’s not a given that they’ll have an import feature for your 2MM members
4. It’s not a given that they’ll integrate with your payment gateway
5. It’s not a given that they’ll support pro-rating or pausing of a membership
6. It’s not a given that they’ll also provide event management
7. It’s not a given that they’ll also support a downloads area

Also the end of this post I will give some advice on what I think are the best membership plugins for different scenarios and an I will choose a couple of from the list of seven that I feel are over winners

Paid Membership Pro:

Has a limited number of payment getaways that it works with. However, it has a number of free and paid for micro plugins that really extend the functionality of the product and gateways. But, even with the micro plugins it still has limited functionality compared to some of the other plugins we will be...