Members only based plugin for Wordpress

Question

Can anyone recommend me a good membership based plugin? I just want to hide pages(as well as their tabs) if users aren't signed in.

So far I found: 'Member Access' which doesn't hide the tabs,
'wp-members' which wouldn't work with 2.8.4
'user access manager' which was too complex clunky to be useful.

There should be something basic out there for what I need, but no luck so far.

Answer 1

If are familiar with php and WP structure, you can add a few lines of code to a few template files to redirect users to login page if they are not signed-in. Let me know if you want to go that way. I can try to provide sample code. Are you using one of the basic themes?

Answer 2

I have a plugin called "LJ Custom Menu Links" that can do what you are asking. However as the name suggests they are custom links, so you would have to hand add the pages you want. But it does/and can only show a link when a user is logged on if that is what you want. Combined with "pagemash" plugin which will hide pages from the menu generated by WP itself leaving only the pages linked to by the LJ Custom Menu Links plugin.

However I was under the impression if you made a Page private then it wouldn't show up unless someone was logged in, or am I wrong on that one?

Answer 3

A good option is to use three difference plugins:

Member Access Register Plus AJAX Login Widget++

You can find my post on all these here:

http://sbhosting.com/wordpress-member-area/

Answer 4

A paid option is: http://tinyurl.com/ylendco It's VERY good. I use it on several websites. Called Wishlist Memeber

Answer 5

Try CMS Members

I know it hide some pages for non-members.

Answer 6

Justin Tadlock is a WordPress heavy (wrote the popular Hybrid theme framework), recently released a comprehensive user management plugin called Members, which among other things can turn your blog into a login-only venue:

Private Blog: Allows you to create a private blog that can only be accessed by users that are logged in (redirects them to the login page).

But I get the impression that you're looking to keep some part available to the public users and other parts only for registered users.

You can also use this plugin to restrict certain areas of your blog, screenshot example here: based on role

Hiding the tabs from the public user is the challenging part. Themes typically aren't designed with private portions in mind; you'd have to hack it yourself or get someone to do it for you.