LearnDash MemberPress Integration is the official plugin that connects your learning management system (LMS) with the powerful MemberPress membership plugin for WordPress. It is designed for those who sell recurring or tiered training and need course access to be automatically controlled based on the plan purchased and payment status, without having to manually manage enrollments, additions, and removals in LearnDash.
This plugin solves the classic problem of growing online academies: when your course catalog expands and you need to sell access by subscription, packages, or membership levels, manual enrollment management becomes unsustainable. With this integration, MemberPress handles the purchase experience and billing, while LearnDash manages the educational content. By linking a course (or several) to a specific membership, the user automatically gains access upon completing payment, and loses it when their subscription expires or is canceled.
Key features include creating membership levels with courses assigned to each level, the ability to offer coupons and discount codes for your courses, selling courses in bundles (a single price grants access to multiple courses), and selling course access as a recurring subscription. Additionally, it includes a retroactive tool that scans all memberships, groups, rules, subscriptions, and transactions to detect completed payments that have not granted access to the corresponding course, and automatically corrects the enrollment of those users.
Setup is simple: after creating your course in LearnDash and your membership in MemberPress, you just go to the LearnDash tab within the membership edit page and select the courses you want to assign. The system handles the rest. For those assigning five or more courses to a single membership, enrollment is processed in the background via cron jobs, ensuring optimal performance even on large platforms.
If you manage an online academy with WordPress and want to fully automate the sales and access cycle for your courses, this integration allows you to scale your business without administrative friction, offering your students a smooth purchase experience and immediate access to their training.