Membership Status

When creating a course, next to the Category, you will see a drop-down menu with four statuses: Published, Draft, Locked, and Drip. In this article, you will learn the difference between these statuses.

Part 1: Published Status

You can use the published status once your section has been completed and you are ready to share it with your members. It will show this section to all the members of your course. 

Part 2: Draft Status

By default, when you create a new category, it will show the Draft status. This prevents it from going live while you are still editing the lessons. You can use this status until the section is ready to be shown or if you no longer want to show this Category and its content. 

Part 3: Locked Status 

This status is useful when you want your members to go first through a specific lesson or a whole category to enable a new category. You can lock by a post/lesson or by an entire category. 

 

Once they have finished seeing all the content in the lesson or the Category, the new Category will be available for them.

Note: If you select a Category, it will lock the entire Category, so keep this in mind if you are only locking one post in the same Category as other posts. In other words, do not select a category for isolating a single post.

Part 4: Drip Status

The feature will allow you to enable content after X number of days have passed. The drip days will count based on when the member logged in first. 

 

So, in the example below, section 2 has a 7-drip delay, and section 3 has a 14-drip delay. Meaning that after the member logs in for the first time, after 14 days, section 3 will be available. 

 

 

If you had to say as an example, in both sections, seven days, they would be shown after seven days after the first time the member logged in. 

Status by Subcategories

Apart from the statuses shown next to the Category, there’s also the option to add a status next to a subcategory. 

 

The only difference is that drip mode is unavailable for subcategories, and there’s also the Delete option (which is not status).