Use Case · Video Creator Membership Platform
A video creator membership platform built with BricksMembers
Learn with Pascal is Pascal Basel's (the BricksMembers founder) own membership site. Bricks shapes the member experience; BricksMembers powers the membership logic underneath: structured courses, protected videos, events, submissions, access levels, likes, comments, and LemonSqueezy access mapping.
● Front-end
● Built in Bricks
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Founder origin
The site that made BricksMembers necessary
Learn with Pascal started as a real creator platform with real membership needs: custom design in Bricks, hundreds of videos, protected access, events, submissions, and payment-based level mapping.
Before BricksMembers
Custom glue was not a solid foundation
Course - module - lesson - video and series - episode content hierarchies for mini-course relationships where taped together with ACF terms & relationship fields
Access levels and payment events were done with ACF + custom code in the functions.php
Events, submissions and feedback all needed complicated frontend forms setup with extra plugin
All that to achieve Bricks desing freedom as no membership plugin was customizable enough
With BricksMembers
No custom code or ACF-taped solutions
Courses & series now use structured membership data via BricksMembers content structures
LemonSqueezy purchase events on the shop site (pascalbasel.com) map to the right access levels with proper webhook interface
Videos, events, submissions, likes and access are native BricksMembers workflows
Every member-facing page remains a custom Bricks layout without any workarounds, or custom code
342
Course videos
74
Structured modules
15
Access levels
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How it's built
The same site, on screen and in the builder
Pick an area, then slide through each view. Left is what members see; right is how it is built in Bricks.
Front-end
Built in Bricks
Lesson posts show video(s) from video child-posts
Lesson page
Boundary query loop
Front-end
BricksMembers admin
Course hierarchy visible on the front end and in BricksMembers
10 courses
Content structure
Lessons & videos
Front-end
Built in Bricks
Course videos use BRM Video with after-threshold notices
Course video
BRM Video
Lessons & videos
Front-end
BricksMembers admin
A second content structure for ongoing creator series
Series → Episode
Second structure
Creator workflows
Front-end
BricksMembers admin
Events are managed as membership workflows
Events list
Events admin
Front-end
Built in Bricks
Event templates use dynamic event data and conditions
Event page
Front-end
Built in Bricks
Submission loops connect feedback to the right event
Submissions
Front-end
Built in Bricks
Submission loops and submission pages keep the event relationship visible
Event-linked submissions
BricksMembers admin
Built in Bricks
Access control gates the learning content
Access control
Lesson template
Front-end
Built in Bricks
The lesson template controls the access state
Protected lesson
Template logic
Conditional states
Front-end
BricksMembers admin
Protected downloads are their own member resource library
Protected resources
Front-end
BricksMembers admin
PascalBasel.com sells the offer; BricksMembers grants the access
Public pricing
Lemon Squeezy checkout
Webhook grants access
BricksMembers admin
BricksMembers admin
Generic webhooks map payment events to member access
User levels
Generic webhook mapping
Access grant
Built in Bricks
Built in Bricks
Native BricksMembers elements and boundary-aware query loops
Module query item
Nested lesson loop
Boundary + batch filters
Built in Bricks
Built in Bricks
Lesson templates use a video loop because one lesson can contain multiple videos
Lesson video loop
One or many videos
Built in Bricks
Built in Bricks
Course video templates combine video, likes and structure UI
BRM Video
Like + breadcrumbs
{brm_event:type_label}
Built in Bricks
Built in Bricks
Event templates use submission loops and dynamic conditions
Submission query
Conditions
Want a creator membership site that stays fully custom?
Use Bricks for the member experience, then let BricksMembers handle structure, access, videos, events, submissions and payment-based level mapping.
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What it makes possible
A creator platform, not a stock LMS
Hundreds of videos, one structured experience
Courses, modules, lessons and course videos stay organized while Bricks controls the member-facing design.
Events and feedback built into the membership
Q&A events, video feedback, submissions, comments and likes all live inside the member area.
Access follows the real product packaging
Subscriptions, lifetime access, course-specific levels and member states can map to the content they unlock.
Bricks remains the design system
The feed, account page, courses, videos, events and submissions stay custom while BricksMembers powers the logic.
Learn with Pascal is the reason I started building BricksMembers. I wanted full control over the member experience in Bricks, but I also needed proper membership structure, access levels, videos, events, submissions, and payment-based access without tying everything together through custom functions and fields.
Learn with Pascal — video creator membership platform on Bricks + BricksMembers
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Feature breakdown
Who does what: BricksMembers and Bricks Builder
The split is the whole point: design stays in Bricks, the membership layer stays reliable underneath.
Learn with Pascal need
BricksMembers role
Bricks Builder role
Structure courses and videos
Course/module/lesson/video relationships and structure boundaries
Custom course, lesson and video templates
Show protected videos
BRM Video, video source data and visibility conditions
Custom video pages and feed cards
Manage access levels
User levels, post requirements and access control
Locked/unlocked sections and account UI
Connect LemonSqueezy
Webhook and access-level mapping
Run events and submissions
Event records, targets, submission loops and event dynamic tags
Event, submission and feedback templates
Keep the experience on-brand
Membership logic stays in the background
Full visual control in Bricks
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More ways to build
One plugin, many membership products
The same building blocks behind Learn with Pascal power a whole range of custom Bricks membership sites.
This use case
Video creator membership platform
Courses, videos, events, submissions, content suggestions, likes, comments and LemonSqueezy access mapping.
View templates →Client portals
Gated dashboards, files and updates, a private, branded area for every client or project.
View templates →Paid resource libraries
Sell access to downloads, templates and docs, gated by level, with member access built in Bricks.
View templates →Cohort & community
Groups, seats and drip content for cohort programs and private communities.
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