Meta Membership

Meta Membership is a clean, flexible, developer-friendly plugin for membership sites. Most membership plugins treat payments as the source of truth. Meta Membership is built around the membership cycle — so renewals, grace periods, and fixed annual expiry dates work the way your organisation actually expects.

Designed with clubs, nonprofits, professional associations, and community groups in mind.

It includes:

• Stripe-based payments and renewals (via Minimal Stripe Wrapper)
• Three renewal modes: fixed expiry date, anniversary, or never expires
• Fixed expiry with pro-rata fees for mid-year joiners
• Configurable grace periods — members retain access while they renew
• Registration policies: open, admin approval, or admin-only
• Page, post, and menu access control by membership status
• Built-in notifications for expiry reminders and admin alerts
• CSV import and export — migrate in from another plugin without losing your data
• Native MailPoet integration (via free Meta MailPoet add-on)

Whether you need a simple signup flow or granular control over membership logic, Meta Membership is built to adapt — without the bloat.

For documentation and add-ons, visit plugins.webworkz.nz

Ideal For

• Not-for-profit organisations
• Professional and hobby clubs
• Community and advocacy groups
• Event-based member programmes
• Developers building custom member workflows

Features

• Membership cycle as source of truth — status driven by cycle, not payment history
• Three renewal modes: fixed expiry date, anniversary, or never expires
• Fixed expiry date support — e.g. all memberships expire 1 April each year
• Pro-rata fees for members joining mid-period on fixed expiry memberships
• Configurable grace periods — expired members retain access while they renew
• Multiple membership types with separate fees, renewal rules, and registration policies
• Separate registration fee and renewal fee per membership type
• Stripe-integrated membership payments (via Minimal Stripe Wrapper)
• Manual payment option for members who pay offline
• Registration policies: open, admin approval, or admin-only
• Email validation option on registration
• Page, post, and menu visibility control by membership status
• Custom member fields (meta fields) with privacy and editability controls
• Two notification systems — event-triggered system notifications and configurable time-based membership reminders
• CSV member import — migrate from your existing system with membership type, expiry, status, and custom fields
• CSV member export
• WordPress role sync — optionally map membership types and statuses to WP roles for compatibility with other plugins
• Developer-friendly: modern architecture with PSR-4 autoloading and clean namespacing under MIME
• Built with not-for-profit governance workflows in mind

Notes for Developers

This plugin is built with a modern architecture using PSR-4 autoloading, namespacing under MIME, and follows WordPress best practices for escaping, sanitizing, and hooking. Documentation at https://plugins.webworkz.nz