Started in late 2010, original developer Pippin Williamson built Restrict Content Pro out of necessity as he began to build out his plugin development resource at Pippin’s Plugins. Restrict Content Pro was designed to provide a complete membership management system that gave membership site administrates a clean, simple way to restrict content to paid subscribers and collect payments from paying customers.

While Restrict Content Pro has never strived to provide every feature under the sun, it does aim to provide all of the fundamentals and much more in a clear, concise, and easy to use platform.

Restrict Content Pro was acquired by iThemes in 2020 with plans to continue to build it as the best full-featured membership plugin for WordPress sites.