Description
User Profile & Membership Plugin for WordPress
The ultimate user profile & membership plugin for WordPress. The plugin makes it a breeze for users to sign-up and become members of your website. The plugin allows you to add beautiful user profiles to your site and is designed for creating advanced online communities and membership sites. Lightweight and highly extendible, Ultimate Member will enable you to create almost any type of site where users can join and become members with absolute ease.
Features of the plugin include:
- Front-end user profiles
- Front-end user registration
- Front-end user login
- Custom form fields
- Conditional logic for form fields
- Drag and drop form builder
- User account page
- Custom user roles
- Member directories
- User emails
- Content restriction
- Conditional nav menus
- Show author posts & comments on user profiles
- Developer friendly with dozens of actions and filters
Read about all of the plugin’s features at Ultimate Member
Paid Extensions
Ultimate Member has a range of extensions that allow you to extend the power of the plugin. You can purchase all of these extensions at a significant discount with one of our paid plans or you can purchase extensions individually.
- Zapier – Allow to integrate the Zapier popular apps with Ultimate Member
- Stripe – Sell paid memberships to access your website via Stripe subscriptions
- User Notes – Allow users to create public and private notes from their profile
- Profile Tabs – Allow to add the custom tabs to profiles
- User Locations – Allow to display users on a map on the member directory page and allow users to add their location via their profile
- Unsplash – Allow users to select a profile cover photo from Unsplash from their profile
- User Bookmarks – Allow users to bookmark content from your website
- User Photos – Allow users to upload photos to their profile
- Groups – Allow users to create and join groups around shared topics, interests etc.
- Private Content – Display private content to logged in users that only they can access
- User Tags – Lets you add a user tag system to your website
- Social Activity – Let users create public wall posts & see the activity of other users
- WooCommerce – Allow you to integrate WooCommerce with Ultimate Member
- Private Messages – Add a private messaging system to your site & allow users to message each other
- Followers – Allow users to follow each other on your site and protect their profile information
- Real-time Notifications – Add a notifications system to your site so users can receive real-time notifications
- Social Login – Let users register & login to your site via Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, Instagram and Vkontakte (VK.com)
- bbPress – With the bbPress extension you can beautifully integrate Ultimate Member with bbPress
- MailChimp – Allow users to subscribe to your MailChimp lists when they signup on your site and sync user meta to MailChimp
- User Reviews – Allow users to rate & review each other using a 5 star rate/review system
- Verified Users – Add a user verification system to your site so user accounts can be verified
- myCRED – With the myCRED extension you can integrate Ultimate Member with the popular myCRED points management plugin
- Notices – Alert users to important information using conditional notices
- Profile Completeness – Encourage or force users to complete their profiles with the profile completeness extension
- Friends – Allows users to become friends by sending & accepting/rejecting friend requests
Free Extensions
- JobsBoardWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the job board plugin JobBoardWP.
- ForumWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the forum plugin ForumWP.
- Terms & Conditions – Add a terms and condition checkbox to your registration forms & require users to agree to your T&Cs before registering on your site.
- Google reCAPTCHA – Stop bots on your registration & login forms with Google reCAPTCHA
- Online Users – Display what users are online with this extension
Theme
Our official theme is purpose built for websites that have logged in and out users. The theme has deep integration with Ultimate Member plugin and the extensions, different header designs for logged-in/out users and works alongside the Beaver Builder and Elementor page builders.
Our other plugins
In addition to Ultimate Member, we also have two other plugins: ForumWP and JobBoardWP.
ForumWP
ForumWP is a forum plugin which adds an online forum to your website, allowing users to create topics and write replies. Forums are a great way to build and grow an online community.
JobBoardWP
JobBoardWP is a job board plugin which adds a modern job board to your website. Display job listings and allow employers to submit and manage jobs all from the front-end.
Development * Translations
If you’re a developer and would like to contribute to the source code of the plugin you can do so via our GitHub Repository.
Want to add a new language to Ultimate Member? Great! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org.
If you are a developer and you need to know the list of UM Hooks, make this via our Hooks Documentation or Hooks Documentation v2.
If you are a developer and you need to know the structure of our code, make this via our Documentation API.
Documentation & Support
Got a problem or need help with Ultimate Member? Head over to our documentation and perform a search of the knowledge base. If you can’t find a solution to your issue then you can create a topic on the support forum.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 4 blocks.
- Form Choose display form
- Member Directory Choose display directory
- Account Displaying the account page of the current user
- Password Reset Displaying the password reset form
Installation
- Activate the plugin
- That’s it. Go to Ultimate Member > Settings to customize plugin options
- For more details, please visit the official Documentation page.
FAQ
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Do I need to know any coding to use this plugin?
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No, we have built Ultimate Member to be extremely easy to use and does not require you to manually build shortcodes or have any coding knowledge.
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Is Ultimate Member mobile responsive?
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Yes. Ultimate Member is designed to adapt nicely to any screen resolution. It includes specific designs for phones, tablets and desktops.
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Is Ultimate Member multi-site compatible?
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Yes. Ultimate Member works great on both single site and multi-site WordPress installs.
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Does the plugin work with any WordPress theme?
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Yes. Ultimate Member will work with any properly coded theme. However, some themes may cause conflicts with the plugin. If you find a styling issue with your theme please create a post in the community forum.
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Does the plugin work with caching plugins?
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The plugin works with popular caching plugins by automatically excluding Ultimate Member pages from being cached. This ensures other visitors to a page will not see the private information of another user. However, if you add features of Ultimate Member to other pages you have to exclude those pages from being cached through your cache plugin settings panel.
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Does Ultimate Member restrict access to wp-login.php when the plugin is active?
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The plugin does not restrict access to the wp-login.php page when active, so that our plugin does not interfere with the existing functionality of a website or other plugins that may utilise the default login page. If you wish to restrict access to the wp-login.php page you can use a plugin such as WPS Hide Login or another plugin that removes the ability to login via wp-login.php.
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Are Ultimate Member Login/Registration pages required?
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No, you do not need to use our plugin’s login or registration pages and can use another plugin or the default WordPress methods for user registration and login.
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Are additional PHP modules necessary for the plugin to work correctly?
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No specific extensions are needed. But we highly recommended keep active these PHP modules:
mbstring,json,dom,exif,gd,fileinfo,curl,iconv. wp-admin > Tools > Site Health page has a summary about your installation and required modules. All major extensions are listed here.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin” has been translated into 28 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
Important:
IMPORTANT: PLEASE UPDATE THE PLUGIN TO AT LEAST VERSION 2.6.7 IMMEDIATELY. VERSION 2.6.7 PATCHES SECURITY PRIVILEGE ESCALATION VULNERABILITY. PLEASE SEE THIS ARTICLE FOR MORE INFORMATION
2.12.0 2026-06-12
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2026-7761.
** Restrictedget_directory_by_hash()function to only match posts with post_type=’um_directory’ and publish post status.
** Used0 === strpos()instead ofstrstr()for getting proper post_data.
** Added condition for getting only allowed fields in tagline_fields and reveal_fields tobuild_user_card_data(). - Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2026-8489.
** Used WordPress nativewp_kses()escaper for displaying user_description field. Used WordPress nativemake_clickable()function to make raw links clickable. - Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2026-xxxx. Make the role and status visible for the user who can edit these users in the request. Reported by Ben Tamam.
- Fixed: Remove UM option function when the option value equals “0”.
Deprecated
- Temporary deprecated: UM REST API. Legacy feature that has to be refactored. Will be refactored and re-released soon.
2.11.4 2026-04-30
Enhancements
- Added: Checking format of the 3rd-party registered custom fields. Avoid PHP errors related to the wrong format or unexpected attributes.
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Added uploader fields
acceptargument for set allowed mime-types in the upload dialog window. Updated 3.1.2 version of this library hayageek/jquery-upload-file. Don’t use 4.0.11 version for now. - Fixed: JS initialization of the empty uploader fields.
- Fixed: User Profile URLs in the User Profile form on the not-predefined pages placed via shortcode.
Note: Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after the upgrade
2.11.3 2026-03-26
Enhancements
- Added: UM > Settings > Advanced > APIs section for set available APIs settings.
- Added: GoogleMaps API setting when it’s available.
- Added: Function
UM()->mail()->enabled_email()for checking if the email notification is enabled by the user. - Added:
colortype of sanitize settings saved in wp-admin. - Added: Checking array type of submission data when
urltype of sanitize is used in wp-admin. - Added: Enhance UM form sanitization filter with $form_data param. Added the $form_data parameter to the
um_sanitize_form_submissionfilter. - Added: Option for special character requirement for passwords. It’s situated in “General > Users > Password requires special character” (based on @faisalahammad suggestions)
- Added: Filter hook
um_before_account_delete_textfor changing before delete account text by 3rd-party plugins. End-customers can use it for translations. - Added: Filter hook
um_custom_{$message_key}(um_custom_pending_message,um_custom_checkmail_message) for changing after-registration message based on the user status by 3rd-party plugins. End-customers can use it for translations. - Added: Filter hook
um_convert_tags_blacklist_fieldsFor 3rd-party integrations to control the usermeta keys inum_convert_tags()function. - Added:
.um-display-noneCSS utility +umShow()/umHide()/umToggle()jQuery helpers. - Added:
um-noticeJS library.
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2026-4248. Added blacklist filter for convert_tag replace placeholders function.
- Fixed: HTML sanitization logic for textarea-type custom fields with enabled HTML using setting.
- Fixed: WP editor formatting to prevent incorrect HTML entity conversion when using html-mode in the textarea-type custom fields. Applied and removed this filter dynamically to avoid interfering with other processes.
- Fixed: Dynamic string translation pattern and improve escaping. Replaced incorrect __(‘%s’) pattern. (@faisalahammad)
- Fixed:
wp_die()function triggering on the frontend actions. Added UM notice above the User Profile page. (based on @faisalahammad suggestions) - Fixed: Password reset key handling for multiple users. Previously, the static reset key caused issues when handling password resets for multiple users simultaneously.
- Fixed:
um_trim_string()function for using with UTF-8 symbols. - Fixed: PHP Notice: Function WP_Scripts::add was called incorrectly.
Templates Requiring Update
- members.php
- message.php
- restricted-blog.php
- restricted-taxonomy.php
Note: Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after the upgrade
2.11.2 2026-02-10
Enhancements
- Added: Server-side validation when the Search Form is submitted.
- Added: Action hook
um_approve_user_on_email_confirmationto natively approve the user after validating the email activation link. - Added: JS filter wp.hook
um_member_directory_popstate_ignoreto stop window.pushSate in the member directory for 3rd-party integrations.
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2025-15064. Deprecated the ability to use HTML inside the user description. It’s still allowed to use only predefined ‘user_description’ tags in
wp_kses(). - Fixed: Security issue, CVE ID: CVE-2026-1404. Modified template item formatting to avoid using HTML characters in the filter values.
- Fixed: Profile photo dropdown menu position for screens smaller than 340px.
- Fixed: Display of the saved value of the “Privacy Options” > “Allowed roles” setting for the member directory.
- Fixed: Information in Site-Health about the registration form’s
TemplateandRolesettings. - Fixed: Information in Site-Health about the login and profile form’s
Templatesettings.
Templates Requiring Update
- members.php
- searchform.php
Note: Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after the upgrade
2.11.1 2025-12-16
Enhancements
- Added: ‘Privacy Options’ for Member Directory. ‘Who can see this member directory’ and ‘Allowed Roles’.
- Added: ‘Rate Limit’ setting for nopriv AJAX actions.
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-13220. Used
shortcode_atts()function to avoid using wrong attributes. - Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-13217. Implementing proper input sanitization and escaping for iframe URLs in YouTube, Vimeo, and Google Maps embeds.
- Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-14081. Filtering fields based on user permissions during Account form submission.
- Fixed: Security issue CVE ID: CVE-2025-12492. Added directory privacy settings and added rate limiting.
Templates Requiring Update
- members.php
- members-grid.php
- members-list.php
2.11.0 2025-12-02
Enhancements
- Added: Extra condition for checking the license activation requests.
- Added: 2nd
$argsattribute to the action hook ‘um_cover_area_content’. - Added:
$argsand$user_idattributes to the action hook ‘um_after_profile_header_name’. - Added: Class
um-profile-subnav-{$subnav_id}-linkto the sub navigation links in the User Profile page. - Tweak: Updated
Extensions_Updaterclass to use Action Scheduler in the upgrade process of the UM extensions.
Bugfixes
- Fixed: User profile links in the comments section on the frontend when the
$comment->user_idis empty. - Fixed: The
emotizefunction regexp for better emoji converting. - Fixed: The conflict between the image uploader and lazy-loading attribute added by 3rd-party plugins.
- Fixed: PHP warnings for roles without meta data.
- Fixed: Typo in labels.
Commercial plugin
This plugin is free but offers additional paid commercial upgrades or support.
Meta
- Version 2.12.0
- Last updated 6 days ago
- Active installations 200,000+
- WordPress version 6.2 or higher
- Tested up to 7.0
- PHP version 7.0 or higher
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