Poor Performance with Divi, Add-Ons Broken

I have had a lot of issues with this plugin since I installed it on my website. I have a pretty popular site – about 20k visitors per week – and so I needed a dependable membership plugin to offer premium memberships to my site visitors. I decided to go with Zeen 101’s Leaky Paywall because it has the option to limit how many posts viewers can read for free each month, and a “countdown article nag” that allows users to see how many free posts they’ve read of their allotment so far (i.e. “You have 1 free post remaining this month.”). There aren’t really any other WordPress plugin options that offer this feature, and I didn’t want to have to either write exclusive premium member posts or make all my posts either free or premium (in other words – I’d prefer to monetize my existing posts by limiting how many posts someone can read each month).

The membership plugin seemed OK (mostly) at first, but I have since had many problems with the main plugin as well as the add-ons. For one, most recently, the plugin no longer works with the latest update for Divi (it interfere’s with Divi’s animations – causing any section of the website that has an animation to simply not display. Since I have a lot of animations throughout my site – i.e. graphics that fade in when you scroll down the page – the plugin broke a lot of my site). When I disabled the plugin, my site worked fine.

Additionally, at one point I purchased the add-on that creates a premium-only link to a piece of media so that only premium members can view or download the media. I thought this would be useful for my eBook that I wanted available only to premium members. The link never worked, and I got lots of emails about the broken link. The Zeen 101 team was not helpful in getting this issue resolved, and eventually I just cancelled the add-on and removed it from my site.

Finally, I’ve had a lot of problems with having the plugin actually work as advertised. When I set certain pages to be “Premium Only,” for example, they are still viewable to non-premium members. Plus, when you try to enable both PayPal and Stripe payment gateways, the plugin doesn’t really know what to do and displays multiple “Subscribe” buttons to the user – which makes the premium subscription setup look spammy or fake. If you uncheck the option to display the PayPal subscribe button on the main subscribe page, it doesn’t display at all. Essentially, this feature is broken and has been since I downloaded the plugin.

To sum up my experience with this plugin – it doesn’t work as intended, and the support team is not very helpful or responsive. I don’t recommend this plugin to anyone at this time.