Membership Lock
by uri · Membership
Membership Lock down lets you easily lock all post content including attached images, video, docs, and everything else.
47 health vs 72 average across 100 Membership plugins
Removal-risk signals
36/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.7.15.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 920 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
25
now · peak 82
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-21 20+ → 10+ down after 839 days in band
- 2024-02-02 10+ → 20+ up after 23 days in band
- 2024-01-10 20+ → 10+ down after 143 days in band
- 2023-08-20 30+ → 20+ down after 23 days in band
- 2023-07-28 20+ → 30+ up after 5 days in band
- 2023-07-23 30+ → 20+ down after 72 days in band
- 2023-05-12 20+ → 30+ up after 106 days in band
- 2023-01-26 30+ → 20+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Simple Membership 40K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A -
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress 100K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More 40K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions 8K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
SureMembers – Membership & Content Restriction Plugin 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
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