membership is a WordPress plugin that Bobbing Wide once used on www.rowlandscastlewebdesign.com to restrict access to customer development areas of the site.
www.rowlandscastlewebdesign.com is a WordPress Multisite website, hosting a number of different prototype sites in different stages of development. We use WordPress Multisite and membership when we want to communicate with our customers but need to protect the sites from public view.
Once understood, configuring the membership plugin is straight forward – it doesn’t require any programming – but it does require a little work to make sure the site is truly protected.
The membership plugin that you download from WordPress.org is the “lite” version of the Premium plugin from WPMUdev.