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.
For documentation, 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 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. Documentation at https://plugins.webworkz.nz
Screenshots
Membership Types - each type sets its own fees, renewal mode (fixed-date, anniversary, or non-renewable), and registration policy.
The members list shows each member's live status - active, in grace period, or expired - derived from their membership cycle.
The member dashboard: members see their membership type, expiry date, and status, and can renew or cancel.
Per-type settings for fees, pro-rata discounts, registration policy, and payment gateways - each able to inherit system defaults.
Define custom member fields with per-field width, privacy, and edit permissions, shown on profile and registration forms.
Time-based notifications send expiry reminders to members and admins, configurable per membership type.