Your own Skool. On your own website.
One plugin that replaces Skool, Paid Memberships Pro and FluentCommunity. 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 and Paid Memberships Pro do, in one plugin
No add-ons and no feature tiers. Every licence gets all of it.
Community feed
- Spaces that are public, members-only or hidden
- Posts with images, YouTube and Vimeo embeds
- Comments, replies, likes and @mentions
- Pinned posts, search and sorting
Classroom
- Courses split into modules and lessons
- Video and written lessons
- Progress tracked for every member
- Unlock courses by membership or by level
Levels and leaderboard
- Points when other members like your posts
- Nine levels with names you choose
- A level ring on every member’s photo
- 7-day, 30-day and all-time leaderboards
Paid memberships
- Free, monthly, yearly or one-off
- Stripe Checkout with free trials and promo codes
- Members cancel or change cards themselves
- Lock spaces, courses and events to a membership
Calendar
- Events with joining links only members see
- Month view and an upcoming list
- One-click “add to my calendar”
Moderation and privacy
- Open sign-up, approval or closed
- Review each new member’s first post
- Manage members and reports from wp-admin
- Works with WordPress’s GDPR export and erase 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?
For community and course memberships, yes: free, monthly, yearly and one-off memberships through Stripe, with trials and promo codes, and spaces, courses and events locked to a membership. It doesn’t lock ordinary WordPress pages or blog posts; it protects what’s inside the community.
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.