In this video, I walk you through how I set up a membership function on a WordPress site using the Simple WordPress Membership Plugin. If you’re planning to offer a free or paid membership, this is one of the easiest free plugins you can start with—especially if your goal is to create protected content that only members can access. I show you how to install and activate the plugin, then we go straight into the basic settings like enabling free membership, hiding the admin bar for members, and preventing members from logging in via the WordPress dashboard. I also explain the auto-generated pages the plugin creates for you (login, registration/join us, profile, and password reset), so you don’t need to build those from scratch. Then I demonstrate how to create membership levels (like a “Silver” level), including how to set expiration by weeks, months, years, or a specific date. After that, we check email notifications—what your members receive upon registration, completion, abandoned signup, password reset, upgrades, and activation. Finally, I share a real troubleshooting moment: my login URL kept redirecting to the homepage, which I didn’t want. So I used an add-on for after-login redirection and set the correct members area URL. To protect content, I show you exactly where to scroll in the page editor and choose the membership level under Simple Membership Protection.