77
User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder
Exceptional support carries this membership tool through its minor quirks.
HealthyDeclining
77/100
Strong support and a useful free version drive satisfaction despite an intrusive admin banner and customization hurdles.
Active installs
~80,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 60k+
Rating
4.8★
820 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-28%
Declining fast
770 → 554 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 28% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -28% in the last year
770/day a year ago→554/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayUser Registration & Membership is a well-regarded registration and membership plugin with a strong reputation for responsive, hands-on support, though customization beyond standard use cases can be frustrating and a persistent large admin banner annoys at least some users.
What people like
- +Support team is consistently praised as fast, thorough, and willing to go beyond the expected — including logging into sites to diagnose third-party conflicts×6
- +Free version offers strong, genuinely useful functionality including custom fields, form customization, and member login/registration×3
- +Plugin is considered easy to use for standard registration and membership needs×2
- +Active development with fixes delivered promptly, including interim workarounds while permanent fixes are prepared×2
Common complaints
- −Customization beyond default behavior is difficult and can cause headaches for developers with specific or time-sensitive requirements
- −A large, intrusive banner appears on every page change in the WP admin area
- −Version 5.1.0 introduced a breaking issue for at least some users, requiring a temporary patch before a permanent fix arrived in 5.1.5 (since 5.1.0)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.70★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 26%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-02-092025-10-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 820 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-04★★★★★Incredible Support – User Registration & Membership Pro]benmeehan
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Seems ok so farowes
- 2026-05-04★★★★★Excellent SupportTrevormonk
- 2026-04-28★★★★★Great plugin and support!Kitty
- 2026-04-09★★★★★Avaliaçãoverasusanam
- 2026-03-20★★★★★Excellent Set of Plugins for Membership Sites!pdobbertin1-shot
- 2026-03-20★★★★★Love the URM plugin and their great supportjemzar1561
- 2026-03-18★★★★★Brilliant Support & PluginChris Chaplin
- 2026-03-02★★★★★works wellblueseadweller1-shot
- 2026-02-23★★★★★Solid pluginjhave
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
967
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
530
Prior 7-day baseline
900
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
9,512
Mean release-day peak (30d)
970
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+82.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
12%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.46
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
26%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-38%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.71 → 4.70★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered