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The WordPress subreddit lit up this week with reports of MemberPress locking users out of the plugin’s admin if they do not renew their subscriptions. MemberPress is a popular membership plugin for WordPress. It is a commercial-only plugin starting at $179/year for one site, and there is no free version.
Reddit user @hamsternose opened the discussion with a first-hand account of having gotten locked out:
So I just discovered that MemberPress has changed its subscription model and will now cease to work the second your license expires and you need to reticence to get it working again.