How To Make A Membership Website Using WordPress (2024) Full Guide

How to Make a Membership website using WordPress

Hey guys, welcome back. Now, if you're looking to build a membership area for your WordPress website, it's very easy

and we'll break it down step by step. So let's get into it

Now, the first thing you have to do is head on over to your WordPress dashboard

And once you're on your WordPress dashboard, the next thing you want to do is you want to

click on plugins on the left panel. So on this left panel, you have plugins

Now over here you want to click on Add New. Once you click on that, you just want to search on the top right and you want to search for membership

Now, once you search for membership, there are two plugins that I actually recommend

First is Ultimate Member and then you have paid Memberships Pro. Now, both of these are free to use plugins and they don't have any kind of hidden fees

And you can build a membership area or a registration area for your users simply and effective

where you can restrict content and also build your members directory and more so you can choose any one of these plugins let's go with the paid memberships pro and you're going to click on install now once you click on install now you have to activate your plugin so within a couple of seconds the installation will be completed and then you can click on activate once you click on activate you will be led to the setup page where you can get started with setting this particular plugin up

Now, you guys can see it's going to ask you, what kind of membership site are you creating

Let's say that I am creating a podcast membership and I want to generate required plugin pages

So this is one thing to keep in mind if you want to automatically generate these pages

It usually is a whole lot easier for you to set up your membership areas and to set up your particular membership area for your paid customers or any kind of membership that you're looking to set up

May it be a paid course, a paid cooking class, or anything else

So after that, you also have paid memberships. So if you're going to be collecting payments for your memberships

then you want to click on this option. If you are not taking paid memberships or you're not collecting payments

and your memberships are going to be free, which means anyone can register to your website

you can simply leave this option Then after you can add your license key but you can submit and continue otherwise as well now you have different membership levels so if you want to create a membership level such as people who

are registered for free people who might be valued customers and people who are maybe paid

customers that are paying an extra amount for extra content so you can enter the particular

level name over here let's say i want to add free registration and i can click on

submit and continue now after that you have some advanced settings now in these settings so

whether or not members can see restricted posts or searches and our search in archives and then you

have show excerpts to non-members so i want to show excerpts to non-members i don't want them to be

able to see the entirety of my paid content but they can also see some basics of that content

now after that you have the option to block all users with the subscriber roll from access

the dashboard. I'm going to select this over here if you don't want them to have access to your dashboard

And then you want to do the hide the toolbar from all users with the subscriber role

Now after that you can choose tracking. So allow the uses of paid members pro to be tracked or do not track on my site

This is totally up to you and how you want to set this up. I'm going to leave the tracking on and click on submit and continue

Now after that you have your basic membership site ready. Now, you can go on ahead and use some of the add-ons if you are looking to integrate your events or invitations directly over here

but you can just click on this link over here, and you can proceed to see the different levels of membership that you have now created

So on your left panel, you have your memberships, and on your memberships, you have your dashboard, members, orders, reports, add-ons, and license

So I can click on add a new level. and let's say a monthly charge would be added and then this subscription might be to my particular cooking class or to my particular therapy session, whatever it might be, you can create a different member level

Usually for most people, having a simple registration area does suffice for most people and it lets you have your loyal customers who have provided their emails and you can provide follow-up emails and more

Now after that you can actually go into your membership dashboard and you will see your sales and revenue membership stats lists views logins and more memberships or this particular paid memberships pro plugin actually creates all of the basic pages that are required so if you go on ahead and go to your

site and you want to visit what your site looks like the automated membership area or the membership pages

would automatically be created if you take a look over here it says membership account membership billing cancel

check out confirmation in voice levels and your profile. Now this is the basic default membership

plugin pages that are created. Obviously you want to edit these so you can go back into your

WordPress dashboard. Once you're in your WordPress dashboard you can click on pages and once you

click on pages on your left toolbar you will see all of the membership pages that have been created

Now the first thing I might want to do is we have our your profile which is a membership page

I require maybe I don't want any membership levels and I don't want invoices. I don't want a billing

section. I don't want a checkout section. I just want the rest of the pages. So I'm just going to select

these pages and then what I'm going to do is I can choose to remove these pages. I'm going to

click on trash over here and I can do a bulk edit as well. So if I want to delete multiple pages

at once like this, I can click on bulk actions, click on move to trash

and click on apply and just like that those particular pages have been removed now once i have

removed the pages i don't need i can actually go into the site and i can begin editing how these

pages are going to appear so i can click on view or quick edit or edit you just click on edit and if

you're using elementor you can use that as well if you are using any other third party platform

then you can use the website editor of those particular platforms as well however even if you're

using the basic WordPress editor it's totally fine to use that as well so you can just click on

visit site over here you will see you will have your updated membership areas only the ones that

you let remain and then you can click on edit site over here on the top left of your screen

once you click on edit site WordPress is going to open up their default editor now I do recommend

going for a different type of editor like Elementor or any other editor because it going to enable you to edit more efficiently So if you not really familiar with building on WordPress it makes it a whole lot easier for you to set up your particular website and membership area

However, using the default editor is really not that hard either. So we have our basic navigation panel on the right

And you can see the different views that it has. Now, let's say I want to edit this

I will just click on edit and I can click on add link and let's say I want to add another link

which might be the your profile link. Now I might want to make this slightly different

So let's say I have this and I want this to be our

and then I'm going to leave it as it is. And then I'm going to go into our membership area and click on edit this menu

And now I can click on membership cancellation. And then I can click on delete because I don't want this page to be directly visible in my drop down

And then the Your Profile menu, I also want to delete that because I've added that as a separate menu item

in my basic panel. Now once I've done this I can go on ahead and click on save on the top right and our

new navigation has been built. Now I can go back to my actual WordPress site and you know take a look

at what it's going to look like you can go on ahead and build it step by step. So now if I go into my

your profile page over here let's say I want this to be present on the top and then log in membership

account and then sample page now if i go back i have my pages and once i click on pages on the

wordpress editor i can choose the particular page so i will click on the membership account page

this is what the membership account page currently looks like so i can click on the edit option on the

top left and i will click on continue now you can open up the top left icon which is this plus icon

And then you have multiple different types of blocks, patrons, and media that you can add

So you can add all of your restricted content or your paid only content or registered users only content on these membership areas

So I can add, let's say I want to add a video. I will simply go into blocks and then I can click on media and text or video

And then I have my video over here. From here, I can click on upload

And then I can upload my own particular membership divided content. So in this way, you can build a membership area in your WordPress website

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