Your own Skool. On your own website.
One plugin that replaces Skool, Paid Memberships Pro, FluentCommunity and BuddyBoss. Discussion spaces, courses, events, a leaderboard and paid memberships, running inside WordPress at an address like yoursite.com/community. Your members are yours, and nobody takes a cut of what they pay you.
One payment per site. No monthly fee. Members stay in your own database.
First half marathon done, 1:58!
Couldn’t have done the last 3 miles without the pacing tips from Thursday’s call…
Shin splints after week 3. Rest or push on?
One plugin instead of three
Most community sites stitch together a hosted platform, a membership plugin and a forum plugin, each with its own bill. This does all three jobs.
What a community costs you over time
Hosted platforms charge every month and take a slice of every payment. Move the sliders to see the difference for a community like yours.
Skool prices from learningrevolution.net (updated 1 October 2026). Stripe’s standard UK card fee from merchantsavvy.co.uk. Dollars converted at $1 = £0.748 (October 2026). Skool’s percentage includes card processing; ours shows Stripe’s fee because that’s what you’d pay. Your web hosting is not included in either. Not affiliated with Skool.
Everything Skool, Paid Memberships Pro, FluentCommunity and BuddyBoss do, in one plugin
No add-ons and no feature tiers. Every licence gets all of it.
One community or many
- Run it at /community/ or as the whole site
- Several communities on one install
- Each with its own spaces, courses and members
- One login, with a switcher for members
Community feed
- Public, members-only or hidden spaces, in groups
- Images, files, video uploads and embeds
- Polls and scheduled posts
- Comments, replies, likes and @mentions
Private messages
- One-to-one chat between members
- You can read every conversation
- Email addresses and phone numbers blocked
- Switch it off if you don’t want it
Classroom
- Courses with modules, video and text
- Drip lessons out after people join
- Quizzes, downloads and lesson discussion
- Certificates when a course is finished
Calendar
- Events with joining links only members see
- Weekly, fortnightly or monthly repeats
- RSVPs and email reminders
- One-click “add to my calendar”
Levels, badges and leaderboard
- Points for likes, posts, comments and lessons
- Nine levels, with a ring on every photo
- Badges given by hand or automatically
- 7-day, 30-day and all-time leaderboards
Paid memberships
- Free, one-off, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly
- Stripe Checkout with trials and promo codes
- Members cancel or change cards themselves
- Lock spaces, courses and events to a membership
Members-only pages
- Lock any page, post, category or tag
- Visitors see a preview and a join button
- Nothing leaks through feeds, search or the API
- Invite links that skip payment
Growth and reports
- Referral links with optional commission
- Questions to answer before joining
- Revenue and member reports
- CSV import and export, plus webhooks
Members
- Directory with search and “online now”
- Follow members, block people
- Profiles with photo, headline and bio
- Install on a phone like an app
Moderation
- Open, approval or closed sign-up
- Review each new member’s first post
- Reports, muting, bans and moderators
- Weekly email of popular posts
Privacy
- Members never see each other’s emails
- Contact details blocked, outside links flagged
- No Gravatar or third-party tracking
- Works with WordPress’s GDPR tools
Set up in an afternoon
Install the plugin
Upload the zip under Plugins and activate your licence. The community appears at /community on your site straight away.
Make it yours
Add your logo and colour, write your rules, and create your spaces. It keeps its own clean layout, whatever your theme.
Invite people
Anyone with an account on your site can join in one click. Add Stripe keys when you’re ready to charge.
Pay once. Own it on your site.
One payment for one site, bought directly from me. There’s no monthly fee and no cut of your members’ payments. Running it on another site? Buy another licence.
- One site, for life
- Every feature, no tiers
- Future updates included
- Email support from me
Secure checkout by Freemius, who handle payment and VAT. Needs WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 7.4+.
Good to know before you buy
How many sites does a licence cover?
One. Each licence runs on one live site, plus your local or staging copies. For another site, buy another licence. You can move a licence to a new site from your account at any time.
Does it really replace Paid Memberships Pro?
Yes. Free, one-off, weekly, monthly, quarterly, six-monthly and yearly memberships through Stripe, with trials, promo codes and invite links. Lock spaces, courses and events inside the community, and any ordinary WordPress page, post, category or tag outside it. Visitors see a preview and a button to join. There are revenue reports and CSV import and export too.
Do I need Stripe?
Only if you want to charge. Free communities work without it. When you do charge, payments go straight into your Stripe account and Stripe’s normal fees apply.
Will it work with my theme?
Yes. The community has its own layout, so it looks the same on any theme. Your analytics and cookie-banner plugins still load on community pages.
Can my existing customers join?
Anyone who already has an account on your site, such as WooCommerce customers, can log in and join with one click.
Can I move my community over from Skool?
Not automatically yet. You can recreate your spaces and courses in an afternoon and invite members by email. An import tool is on the list.
Where is my members’ data stored?
In your own WordPress database. Nothing is sent to me, and the plugin adds no tracking or Google Fonts to your community pages.
I have another question
Email me at hello@andrewhill.org.uk.
© 2026 Andrew Hill. Not affiliated with Skool. Prices quoted as listed in October 2026.