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Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress
Powerful membership tools with a very short leash.
HealthyDeclining
59/100
The support is excellent. The license model is controversial because it disables features.
Active installs
~109,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
3.1★
935 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-25%
Declining fast
1,060 → 799 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 25% 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 · -25% in the last year
1,060/day a year ago→799/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayProfilePress is a well-regarded membership and user management plugin praised for its ease of use and responsive support team, though a notable caveat is that premium add-on functionality fully stops working if the annual license is not renewed — a practice some users find misleading and unusual for a WordPress plugin.
What people like
- +Support team is consistently praised as fast, helpful, and responsive to feature requests×6
- +Easy to set up and configure without being overwhelming×4
- +Content restriction feature works reliably across different user accounts and membership levels×2
- +Integrates with prominent LMS platforms including LearnDash
- +Developer is open to new feature suggestions×2
Common complaints
- −Premium add-on functionality stops working entirely if the annual license is not renewed, not just updates — users consider this misleading and unusual for a self-hosted WordPress plugin
- −Plugin evolved from WP User Avatar into a much larger product, which frustrates users who only wanted the original lightweight tool
- −Some users find the feature set insufficient compared to alternatives like Ultimate Member
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.62★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.10★
- 30%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 935 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-30★★★★★Solid content restriction that actually worksmvxweb
- 2026-04-28★★★★★Excellent Plugin and Great Value for MoneyRyan
- 2026-04-11★★★★★Not the same pluginnegru13
- 2026-03-29★★★★★Extremely supportive team!weswebmaster
- 2026-01-26★★★★★Decent, but not bestchaney220
- 2026-01-14★★★★★Feature-rich plugin, fast and helpful supportdevmickey1-shot
- 2026-01-08★★★★★Ótimokonnekitfly1-shot
- 2025-12-19★★★★★I love this ProfilePress, great features and great support team!luisxg1-shot
- 2025-10-30★★★★★그냥 다 퍼펙트*^^~선장
- 2025-09-24★★★★★Top-notch supportpiccinato
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.
783
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
799
Prior 7-day baseline
582
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
18,956
Mean release-day peak (30d)
27,243
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-2.0%
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.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.76
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
30%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
0%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.67 → 4.62★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered