MemberPress User Roles

Description

The User Roles add-on adds WordPress user role selection to MemberPress membership settings, allowing you to assign specific roles to members based on the product or level purchased. This extension helps membership clubs, restricted areas, and subscription sites separate administrative permissions and operational access without depending on manual adjustments for every new active user signup.

Key Features

• Role assignment
  Links WordPress roles to memberships configured in MemberPress.
• Membership-based management
  Lets you set different permissions for each member level.
• User updates
  Applies roles to the account based on the subscription link.
• Admin control
  Centralizes configuration without editing roles manually in the profile.
• Integration with MemberPress
  Works within the members and products flow of the core plugin.

Benefits of User Roles

• Less manual work
  Reduces repetitive adjustments in individual user profiles.
• Clearer permissions
  Separates member groups by role and contracted level.
• More organized operations
  Makes it easier to manage communities, courses, and private areas with distinct rules.
• Scales for subscriptions
  Keeps access control viable as the base grows.

Who Is It For?

• Member sites that use MemberPress to sell access levels.
• Administrators who need to differentiate permissions by plan, product, or group.
• Projects with a restricted area, community, courses, or segmented content.

User Roles is recommended for anyone already using MemberPress and needs to turn the purchased membership into a practical role inside WordPress. The additional module makes permission management more predictable, keeping each member group linked to the correct role in the dashboard and reducing manual interventions as the platform grows.

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