A collection of articles about turning a WordPress site into a community website.
Compare MemberPress alternatives for WordPress: free and paid membership plugins, payments, content restriction and prices, checked in October 2026.
Create a custom user profile page in WordPress: a public page for each member with their photo, fields and tabs, privacy settings and your own design.
Compare 7 WordPress content restriction plugins: what each can restrict, what's free, and which fits a members area, a private site or paid content.
Membership website design, page by page: the homepage, pricing, sign-up, members area, locked content and account pages, and what each one needs.
Which BuddyPress paid membership plugin should you use? Compare five options by what they control in BuddyPress, with prices checked in October 2026.
Build a membership site with WordPress: charge a recurring fee at sign-up, lock content to paying members and add a member directory. Step by step.
WordPress statistics for 2026: market share, versions, PHP, plugins, themes, WooCommerce and security, each with its source, checked October 30, 2026.
Compare WooCommerce membership plugins: members-only pricing, paid registration, recurring billing and member profiles, and which fits your store.
Build a WordPress members only area step by step: login and account pages, a member role, restricted pages, a members menu and redirects after login.
Everything you need to know about WP User Manager, new addons and releases.
User Verification 2.2 lets you use email verification and manual approval together, shows what each signup is waiting on and adds a new email tag.
WP User Manager 2.10 lets you rename roles, adds email tags for styled buttons, keeps login pages out of search and hides member emails by default.
WooCommerce 1.3 for WP User Manager fixes payment at registration on newer WooCommerce, adds HPOS support and fixes the Subscribe tab.
Mailchimp 2.1 for WP User Manager adds subscriptions on the user profile, a WP-CLI sync command and a list of failed Mailchimp requests.
Groups 1.3 for WP User Manager adds member invitations, invitation-only hidden groups, and easier member management from the dashboard.
ACF 1.2 introduces support for conditional logic for fields that are used in your registration forms and on the account page.
Security 1.3 introduces the ability for admins to disable users to prevent them from logging, setting an allow list of email addresses, domains or string matches to restrict user registration and other fixes.