WooCommerce Memberships
by WooCommerce
Ties membership access to WooCommerce products, so a purchase grants content and discounts.
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What WooCommerce Memberships does
Ties membership access to WooCommerce products, so a purchase grants content and discounts.
It sits in the memberships part of a WordPress stack and is sold by WooCommerce on a premium basis. We recommend it in our memberships guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.
Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.
Real user ratings
Score
4.5/5
Reviews
4,823
Active installs
7,000,000+
Downloads
461.6M
Latest version
11.1.0
Last updated
2026-09-03
These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 11.1.0, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.4/5.
Where WooCommerce Memberships ranks elsewhere
| Publisher | List | Position |
|---|---|---|
| WPForms | Best WordPress Membership Plugins Compared | #10 of 14 |
Positions are read from the published articles themselves, so they reflect that publisher's order rather than ours. Lists get re-ordered over time, so follow the link if you want the current version.
What changed in the latest version
- Fix - Activity Panel counts endpoint now respects an explicitly-empty actionable order statuses setting instead of falling back to the defaults, so a cleared setting reports zero orders to fulfill. #66483
- Fix - Add aria-label to Product Gallery Thumbnails #67303
- Fix - Add a visible validation message for the checkout terms and conditions checkbox. #66449
- Fix - Add explicit sale date fields to product Quick Edit and save schedules consistently with the full product editor. #66931
- Fix - Align the Core Breadcrumbs block output with WooCommerce Store Breadcrumbs on shop, product, account, archive, and custom taxonomy pages. #66382
- Fix - Align the Payments settings partner recommendations with the partnership tracking sheet: add Mayotte, add PayPal to Guyana, add Airwallex to Malaysia and South Korea, make MONEI the preferred provider in Andorra, and place Paytrail...
- Fix - Allow customers to save account details when an unchanged display name is already an email address. #66645
- Fix - Allow null parent names in REST API order line items. #66636
Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog
Pros and cons
- Works natively with your store
- Paid support and updates from the vendor
- Actively maintained and used on production sites we test
- Needs Subscriptions for recurring plans
- Renewal cost is annual and per site
How to use it
- 1Map out your levels and what each one unlocks before configuring anything.
- 2Create the levels, then apply access rules to content rather than per post.
- 3Test signup, renewal and cancellation as a real member would.
- 4Exclude account and members-only pages from caching.
- 5Set up dunning emails for failed recurring payments.
How it compares
Other memberships plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.
| Plugin | Our rating | WordPress.org | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WooCommerce Memberships | 4.4 | 4.5 (4,823) | Premium | Works natively with your store |
| Leaky Paywall | 4.3 | 4.2 (35) | Premium | Metered access built for publishers |
| MemberPress | 4.6 | n/a | Premium | Cleanest access rules of any option |
| Members | 4.9 | 4.9 (1,275) | Free | Content restriction and role editing in one free plugin |
| Paid Memberships Pro | 4.5 | n/a | Freemium | Free core with real functionality |
| ProfilePress | 4.4 | n/a | Freemium | Front-end user management done well |
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