Episode 17: My Top Two Recommendations for Hosting a Course or Membership on Your Business Website

As a website designer, y’all know that I recommend using WordPress for your business website.
WordPress has a plugin called Memberpress, which allows you to host your course or membership directly in your website, so it’s all in one platform.

With Memberpress, you also get to customize your course or membership to fully match your branding. This will allow everything to be very consistent, and it makes it really easy for you to manage when it’s all in one platform under WordPress.

With Memberpress, there’s an annual fee of about $300, which breaks down to about $25 a month. I previously used Teachable for a course that I have, and I was paying about $40 a month for their mid tier package. So, an annual fee of $300 is totally doable in my opinion.

With MemberPress, you can set up rules on your website so that only the members who have purchased your course or membership can access that info. For example, I have a client who I set up a membership for and she wanted every page to be accessible by anybody who visits her website, but then some of the information on that page, would only be accessible for members to see. We were able to set that up using a rule in Memberpress. This means that if you’re not a member of her website, when you go to that page, you see all the other information, but when you get to the member’s only section, it has a statement that says, “this info is only available to members, join here” and it prompts them to go join her subscription.

However, if they are a member and are logged in, they’ll automatically see the member’s only info on that page.

Memberpress has a lot of other capabilities as well. I will say some of their tutorials are not the most helpful. I’ve had to do some digging on trying to figure out how to do things, but there is a lot of good info out on the internet. You just have to be willing to do a little bit of digging.