User Role Membership leans on WordPress core: roles in wp_options, user-role assignments in wp_usermeta, and content restrictions stored in wp_postmeta. The plugin orchestrates them as a membership system without adding a parallel members table. Subscribers exist as standard WordPress users with one or more roles attached.

That makes the schema clean and the default reporting thin. The WordPress Users screen lists every account with a role column. The plugin's own settings configure which roles act as paying tiers and which content they unlock. Nothing on either screen tells the operator how the role population is shaped this month, which paid role is growing, or how much protected content each role tier actually accesses.

SleekView Charts reads roles, users, and the role-restriction postmeta directly. A Number anchors total paid-role users. A Pie splits the user base across roles. A Bar ranks roles by accessible content count. An Area trends new role assignments over time so the operator sees the membership cohort moving week by week.

User Role Membership keeps the system honest by reusing WordPress roles for access, which is the right architectural call and the reason the default reporting is thin. The Users screen counts accounts but not paid-tier population, the plugin settings define which role unlocks what but do not chart the relationship, and the operator ends up running the weekly review off a spreadsheet exported from the Users page. A dashboard that joins wp_users, wp_usermeta, and the role-restriction postmeta puts that review on a single screen.

The paid-tier KPI sits next to the role population pie, the per-role content coverage bar confirms each tier unlocks what marketing promised, and the signup trend area shows whether the membership is compounding. Same WordPress role primitives the plugin already uses, organised as the cockpit they deserve.