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.

Try it now – no install needed. Explore a fully-configured demo site running entirely in your browser, with sample membership types, members in different lifecycle states, and a working registration flow: Launch the live demo

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

• Access control by membership type and status: Page, Post, and menu items

• 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 Membership – Mailing List add-on)

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

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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 type and status

• Custom member fields (meta fields) with privacy and editability controls

• Notification emails – 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 wp-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. nz