{"id":42716,"date":"2019-05-29T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?p=42716"},"modified":"2021-01-29T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:09:04","slug":"how-to-manage-memberships-on-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/how-to-manage-memberships-on-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage Memberships on Your WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, we&#8217;re going to talk about using a membership plugin on your WordPress site. How does a membership plugin become helpful?<\/p>\n<p>As you may already know, WordPress comes with a registration feature (which allows people to join your site) and <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Roles_and_Capabilities\">default user roles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"org-ul\">\n<li>Super Admin<\/li>\n<li>Administrator<\/li>\n<li>Editor<\/li>\n<li>Author<\/li>\n<li>Contributor<\/li>\n<li>Subscriber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you create a site, and provide a username and password, you automatically become the administrator. And you can assign various user roles to other people whom you&#8217;ve granted access to your site.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to use a plugin called <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/members\/\">Members<\/a> to manage user roles with more control.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"orgd0014c8\">Members and Web Hosting Services<\/h2>\n<p>If you want to retain consistent users on your site, you may consider offering memberships as a way to augment your general web hosting services.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress makes it easy to add as many members as you want. And users can register themselves, which means you don&#8217;t mean to manually add people. New members can use the WordPress user registration page to sign up and then confirm their subscription via an email address they&#8217;ve provided. This ensures compliance with data privacy laws.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"org0ff4333\">How to Get Started With Members<\/h2>\n<p>Follow the steps below for installing the Members plugin and accessing the settings to control user roles.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/plugins\/install-wordpress-plugins\/\">Install the Members plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click <b>Members<\/b> under <em>Settings<\/em> (for general settings)<\/li>\n<li>Edit user roles under <em>Users<\/em> -&gt; <b>Roles<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In addition to controlling user roles and assigning &#8220;capabilities&#8221; you can select a default role that will be assigned to new members.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"org2b9fbc8\">More Benefits of User Management<\/h2>\n<p>Having proper roles and capabilities makes your WordPre site more secure. 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