Is this the right plugin for a free membership site?

Hi!

If I understood you correctly, yeah you can use this plugin to have as many free membership levels as you like.

As for the different designation bit, as far as I know when a user subscribes for a membership level, they have a role of “subscriber”. If the different membership levels are meant to see different things like pages and posts, you could use this plugin to determine which membership level has access to which page or post. Just make use of the “Require membership” option that becomes available when you’re making a new page or post and select the membership level you want should have access to the page or post.

Good luck! Hope this helps.

Thank you for the info. I’m going to try this. Is there any way that when the user registers, their membership must wait to be be approved by an admin? We want to screen our applicants.

You’re welcome!

I’m not really sure if there’s a way to do that but you could try it.

One thing I have found about this plugin is that it doesn’t hide sidebar content, is there a way around that (somewhere I can set this globally)?

Not sure if there’s a way around that.

I was going through the list of pmpro addons and I found this:

https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/plugins-on-github/pmpro-roles/

I haven’t tried it, but I think you might find it useful if you’re still interested in that different designation stuff.

And here is a link to the page with other addons:

https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/

Good luck!