Manage Membership Plans
MemberDash allows you to restrict access to specific courses, products, pages, posts, or categories on your WordPress site based on membership level. Here's how to manage your Membership plans in Wordpress :
Log in to your WordPress dashboard click on the
WooCommerce
tab and navigate to theMembership
sub link.Click on the
Membership Plans
tab to enter in the menu
From here you can perform several actions related to Membership Plans such as editing, deleting or creating new ones.
Hover the membership plan that you want to modify and select the
Edit
button.Change the name of your Membership Plan (img 1), or the slug, in the
General tab
.Manage the access of your product in the
General tab
, you can allow members to see specific products, and also manage the access by : manual assignment, user account registration or product purchase.
Public content is accessible to anyone, registered content is accessible to users with an account on your site, and private content is accessible only to users who have purchased a membership plan.
Define your membership length in the
General tab
with differents options : unlimited, specific length or fixed dates.Click on the
Restricted Content
orRestricted Products
tab, and click on theAdd New Rule
button to give your member access to a certain kind of content.Select the type of content you want to restrict access to with the
Type Dropdown List
(img 2) (e.g., pages, posts, categories, products or courses).In the Title
text area
you can assign a product or a content that only your member can access, and you can also set the Accessible field to define if your product or content is immediately available or during a specific time.In the
Restricted Products
tab, you can set if only your member can view the product or buy it.Repeat steps 7-9 for each piece of content you want to restrict.
Click on the "Save" button to save your changes
Related courses are content that comes with a membership plan, you can add courses to your membership plan, but if these courses are public, even if they are unsellected in the Related courses drop-down list the user will have access to the courses.
When a user gets a membership plan, they get access to the related courses. If they lose the membership, they lose the content. If they get access to the course from other sources, there will be no change even with the membership plan.