Creating memberships<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
MemberPress is designed, first and foremost, to create and manage memberships plans that users can sign up for. The plugin makes it incredibly simple to do. Once it’s activated on the site, navigate to MemberPress \u2192 Memberships in the WordPress admin and click the “Add New” option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exact settings for a membership depend on what it needs to do. How long does a membership last? What’s the price? Can someone renew their membership? Who’s allowed to sign up for it? These are the sorts of things you get to decide here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MemberPress makes an assumption when a new membership is created. It assumes that anyone who registers for it gets a benefit for being a member, and one of those benefits is access to certain content on the site. It does that in the “Rules” section of the plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MemberPress provides no shortage of options for what type of content can be restricted to memberships. It can even be used to limit access for everything, from specific pages, posts, categories, tags, products, taxonomies, child pages, URLs, and lots more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s this sort of flexibility that might make MemberPress a must for a community calendar with memberships. Need to restrict access to the entire calendar? Check. How about just to a certain category of events? Yep. Specific events? Of course. Sell tickets? That’s covered too. No WooCommerce? No problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can also define micro-level settings in the page and post editor, including whether non-members can view the post excerpt, what message non-members see when trying to access restricted content, and whether to display a login form for members to access their account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our free Event Tickets<\/a> plugin provides the ability to create tickets for events, pages, posts, and any custom post type. It supports PayPal right out of the box, but if you’re already using an e-commerce provider, including WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, our Event Tickets Plus<\/a> add-on can be added to integrate Event Tickets with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MemberPress is unable to limit access to tickets created with Event Tickets as far as its Rules settings go. However, MemberPress provides shortcodes that enforce rules when they are wrapped around content on a WordPress page or post.<\/p>\n\n\n That means we can hide tickets from non-members directly on the page using Shortcode blocks. We need three blocks altogether:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that the ticket is placed between the two shortcodes, only members will see it when visiting the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hiding tickets from non-members becomes a little easier if you’re using Event Tickets Plus with WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads. Tickets created with Event Tickets Plus are registered as products and those products are custom post types, and MemberPress can create rules for custom post types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To make creating membership-only tickets even easier, you can use our handy extension<\/a> that integrates perfectly with MemberPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hey, here’s an idea: let members post events to the calendar! With our Community Events add-on<\/a> to The Events Calendar, an event submission form can be added to the front end of the website. And, since MemberPress can give members exclusive access to any WordPress page or post, we can give exclusive access to the submission form as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Add Now, this becomes a page like any other, which means MemberPress can limit access to it based on a user’s membership plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s another idea: create one membership plan that allows members to submit events, and create an additional plan that allows members access to view and edit their events<\/strong>. We can do that the exact same way we just did for the event submission form, only adding a parameter to the shortcode we used before, like this: MemberPress is a pretty darn neat plugin, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect for everyone. Here are a few things to consider before using it with your calendar and events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Again, we think MemberPress is pretty fantastic. It’s going to have everything you need to create and manage memberships, as well as slew of things, like courses and subscriptions. 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Members-only calendar and events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMembers-only tickets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n[mepr-show rules="5723" unauth="message"]Only VIP members can see this.[\/mepr-show]\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
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[tribe_community_events]<\/a><\/code> to a Shortcode block in the WordPress page editor, save the page, and we get the event submission form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Adding](\"\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/community-events-shortcode-back-front-end.png\")
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[tribe_community_events view=\u201dmy_events\u201d]<\/code>. That embeds a list of the events a user has submitted if they are logged in, and we can use a MemberPress rule to limit access to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPros and cons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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