Are you trying to find the right platform to build your WordPress membership site? Or thinking about migrating to a new membership platform?
The examples in this article might help you out in the decision-making process. Right now, each one is running a successful WordPress membership site with MemberPress.
So you just might’ve found your platform!
MemberPress is the #1 WordPress plugin for selling memberships, courses, coaching, and digital products.
Tens of thousands of businesses around the world use it to get paid for what they know, from professional associations and certification providers to solo coaches and indie publishers.
With MemberPress you can…
- Sell memberships and subscriptions with recurring billing
- Build and sell online courses, coaching programs, and paid communities
- Sell one-off products and build sales funnels with MemberPress Cart and Funnels
- Add any of the above to the WordPress site you already have
Setup is simple, moving over from another platform is easier than you’d think, and because everything runs on your own website, you keep your members, your data, and your revenue.
Whether you’re turning an idea into income or running an association that’s been around for a century, it all works the same way.
But what, exactly, do MemberPress sites look like?
Glad you asked.
For each website on our list, we included a site link and a short overview. We also added a basic description of how each business is using MemberPress to boost its bottom line.
We’re super excited to show you just how versatile the MemberPress WordPress plugin is. But before we get to the list, let’s go over what we mean when we say “monetized” or “membership” site.
What is a “Membership Site” or “Monetized Site”?
The concept is pretty simple.
A website that requires users to sign up for access to “protected content” is considered a membership or monetized site. This signup function is often referred to as a paywall or content gate.
The functionality can go a couple of ways:
- A free membership site offers gated content for free.
- A monetized membership site offers at least some gated content for a fee. (In many cases, monetized sites are a combination of free and paid content.)
For example, consider an online women’s clothing store that has a VIP community. Anyone can shop on the site without an account.
But if someone signs up for the VIP community, they get special sale alerts, discounts, and a regular newsletter.
Because the store has a VIP community (protected content) and requires signup, we’d call it a membership site.
The exclusive community could be free (requiring only an email address), or it could be offered for a fee. Either way, it’s a membership component.
In addition to private communities, protected content can include all kinds of things:
| Subscriptions | Videos | Podcasts |
| Physical products | Ebooks | Audio content |
| Digital products | White papers | Communities, forums, clubs |
| Blog posts | Online courses | Virtual conferences |
| Images | Coaching sessions | Anything else you can imagine! |
So, some sites are hybrids. These sites offer a membership component alongside physical or digital products, like the clothing store with a VIP community.
Whereas other sites are built solely around memberships. The MemberPress-based online Pilates school, Pilatesology, is a good example.
Now that you’ve got a better understanding of what a membership site is, it’s time to dive into our list of awesome examples.
NOTE: The list is organized by site type. You can use the table of contents above to find different types and to jump around between sections.
Site Examples by Membership Type
Instead of sorting these examples by industry, we’ve grouped them by what members are actually paying for: dues, a credential, research, a subscription, a course, a community, or a ticket into a club they love.
Find the section that sounds like the business you’re building (or already running), and you’ll see how other people have set it up, what they charge for, and how MemberPress does the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
And if you’d rather browse by niche, jump to our Site Examples by Industry section at the end of the post.
Association & Nonprofit Membership Site Examples
If you run an association, you already know the drill. Dues need collecting every year, the member directory needs updating, there’s a conference to fill, and somewhere in the middle of all that the board wants a report.
The good news is that you don’t need a $400-a-month association management system to handle it. Professional societies, trade associations, and nonprofits are some of the most successful MemberPress sites out there, and they tend to stick around for years (members don’t stop needing their professional body just because it’s a busy quarter).
The examples below run annual dues, tiered memberships for students and professionals, gated resource libraries, journals, and event discounts, all from a WordPress site they own. A few of these organizations were collecting dues long before the internet came along, so they know a thing or two about keeping members happy.
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British Menopause Society
Check Out the Site: British Menopause Society
What They Do
The British Menopause Society (BMS) has been the UK’s specialist authority on menopause and post-reproductive health since 1989.
It educates doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals, and it keeps a public directory of BMS menopause specialists.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The BMS uses MemberPress to manage memberships priced by profession, from affiliates to practices.
Members log in to a Members’ Area with a clinical query forum, research papers, the online BMS Handbook, and back issues of its journal, Post Reproductive Health. Members also get conference discounts and can apply for Menopause Specialist status.
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Society of North American Goldsmiths
Check Out the Site: Society of North American Goldsmiths
What They Do
The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) has been the leading community for jewelers and metalsmiths since 1969. It publishes Metalsmith magazine and hosts conferences, exhibitions, and virtual programs for artists at every stage.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
SNAG uses MemberPress to manage its All Access memberships, with Individual, Emerging, and Student tiers and separate pricing for international members.
Members get print and digital Metalsmith with back issues, a listing in the member directory, the Resource Library, free exhibition entry, and discounts on events, insurance, and supplies.
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SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association)
Check Out the Site: SFWA
What They Do
SFWA is a professional organization for authors of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres. Past members include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey, and Andre Norton.
It runs the Nebula Awards, one of the best-known honors in speculative fiction, and publishes the online magazine Planetside.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
SFWA uses MemberPress to manage its Active and Associate memberships. Members get private forums, mentoring, grants, legal support, model contracts, NetGalley access, and the right to nominate and vote in the Nebula Awards.
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American Craft Council
Check Out the Site: American Craft Council
What They Do
The American Craft Council is a national nonprofit that has championed American craft and its makers for more than 80 years.
It publishes American Craft magazine, which reached 280,000 readers in 2025, and runs shows like American Craft Made Baltimore. Since 2022, its marketplaces have generated an estimated $10.9 million in artist sales.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The American Craft Council uses MemberPress to manage its membership, which it calls a “passport to craft.”
Members connect to the national craft community through the magazine, events, workshops, and resources like the Opportunities Board for jobs, grants, and calls for entry.
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The Society of Composers and Lyricists
Check Out the Site: The Society of Composers and Lyricists
What They Do
The Society for Composers and Lyricists (SCL) is the primary organization for professional film, television, video game, and musical theatre composers and lyricists who create music for visual media.
Today, SCL members enjoy the camaraderie of composers and lyricists at diverse stages of their careers. Students and patron sponsors supportive of our professional work are also welcomed.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The SCL uses MemberPress to manage its memberships for both patrons and members, offering three tiers of memberships.
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ProCopywriters
Check Out the Site: ProCopywriters
What They Do
ProCopywriters is the Alliance of Commercial Writers, a UK network of 875+ copywriters, content designers, and UX writers.
It created the Copywriter Code, which it calls the first professional standard for copywriters, and publishes an annual Copywriter Survey on rates and trends.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
ProCopywriters uses MemberPress to run three tiers.
Copywriters can join for free by signing the Copywriter Code, which gives them a resource library and a place to track their training.
Paid plans start at £12.99/month and focus on helping writers grow and get hired, with workshops, mentoring, a private community, and a listing in the directory clients use to find copywriters.
The top tier is all about visibility, adding a portfolio, priority placement, and the chance to publish on the ProCopywriters blog.
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Marketing and Communications Association for Schools
Check Out the Site: Marketing and Communications Association for Schools
What They Do
The MarCom Society helps to provide marketing and communications training for K12 School professionals.
MarCom’s founder, Brendan Schneider, encourages professional development throughout one’s career via continued development of skills.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers the MarCom Society’s memberships and helps them manage the variety of users.
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Effie Awards
Check Out the Site: Effie Awards
What They Do
The Effie Awards have recognized the world’s most effective marketing since 1968.
Today Effie runs 60 programs across more than 125 markets and has built a library of over 10,000 effectiveness case studies.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Effie’s logged-in experience runs on MemberPress. Marketers sign in to explore the Case Library and Effie Insights, which turn award-winning campaigns into lessons other brands can learn from.
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Craft Industry Alliance
Check Out the Site: Craft Industry Alliance
What They Do
Craft Industry Alliance is an online community for craft professionals. Members are empowered to strengthen their creative businesses, to stay up to date on the latest industry news, and to build connections within a supportive, growth-focused environment of like-minded professionals.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Craft Industry Alliance uses MemberPress to manage its trade association membership. Members get access to exclusive resources and networking opportunities.
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La Leche League International
Check Out the Site: La Leche League International
What They Do
La Leche League International (LLLI) was founded in 1956 by seven mothers in Illinois. It now offers breastfeeding support in more than 80 countries through a global network of trained volunteer Leaders.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
LLLI uses MemberPress to protect its Leader Pages, a private library for its volunteers. Logged-in Leaders can access the Leader’s Handbook, brand guidelines, emergency support resources, and board reports, while parents use the public side of the site to find a local group.
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Foreign Policy Association
Check Out the Site: Foreign Policy Association
What They Do
The Foreign Policy Association offers nonpartisan education, events, and analysis to help Americans understand global affairs and U.S. foreign policy.
Its flagship program, Great Decisions, is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs. Participants read a briefing book, watch a video series, and meet in local discussion groups to talk through eight topics each year.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Foreign Policy Association uses MemberPress to run its membership program and sell Great Decisions materials. Products range from a $19.95 briefing book to a $75 Teachers Packet and a $775 Classroom Packet with DVD lectures and teaching guides.
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Food Tank
Check Out the Site: Food Tank
What They Do
Food Tank is an online membership site featuring blog articles and podcasts. The organization’s goal is to provide environmentally sustainable ways to alleviate hunger, obesity, and poverty by creating networks of people, organizations, and content that push for food system change.
Food Tank has over 1.2 million subscribers. This massive audience consists of farmers, scientists, researchers, policymakers, government leaders, students, and journalists who share the same mission: to alleviate hunger and poverty while protecting the environment.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Food Tank has built a three-tiered membership site with the help of MemberPress. Members gain access to perks and premium content, and help support the organization’s mission.
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Startup Canada
Check Out the Site: Startup Canada
What They Do
Startup Canada supports early-stage entrepreneurs across the country with resources, events, and programs like Startup Women and Startup Global.
Its national Startup Canada Tour has welcomed more than 4,400 attendees with the help of 200+ partners.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Startup Canada’s membership program runs on MemberPress, connecting individuals, businesses, and organizations with its network of local Startup Communities.
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Certification, Continuing Education & Professional Training
There’s online learning, and then there’s the kind of learning people need to keep doing their jobs.
Nurses, doctors, lawyers, and travel advisors all have to prove they’re keeping up, whether that’s continuing education credits, a certification exam, or a training program their profession expects. That makes this one of the most valuable corners of online education. Learners aren’t browsing for fun. They need the credential, so they finish the course and they come back next year.
The sites below range from a world-famous children’s hospital to a solo bar exam tutor, and they all use MemberPress to sell courses, track progress, issue certificates, and keep learners’ accounts and transcripts in one place. If you’ve got professional expertise and you’ve ever thought “I could teach this,” start here.
Boston Children’s Hospital
Check Out the Site: Boston Children’s Hospital
What They Do
Boston Children’s Hospital is one of the world’s leading pediatric hospitals and the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Through its Center for Educational Excellence & Innovation, it offers evidence-based continuing education to help clinicians strengthen their practice.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Boston Children’s runs its Continuing Education Portal on MemberPress. Clinicians create an account, buy CE courses, complete them online, and download a transcript of the courses they’ve finished.
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NurseHub
Check Out the Site: NurseHub
What They Do
NurseHub helps nursing students prepare for their exams, from the TEAS and HESI entrance exams to the NCLEX.
It says more than 200,000 students have studied with it, and it reports a 98% pass rate and a 4.9-star rating.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
NurseHub sells its exam prep as subscriptions through MemberPress, billed monthly or every three months. NCLEX prep costs $39.99/month and includes a question bank with NGN case studies and readiness exams, while SimRN adds AI-powered clinical simulations. Both come with a three-day free trial.
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JD Advising
Check Out the Site: JD Advising
What They Do
JD Advising is a bar exam prep company that helps law students and graduates pass the bar. It offers bar prep courses, one-on-one tutoring, and help with the MPRE, the LSAT, and law school itself.
Its materials are used at more than 200 law schools, and more than a million readers visit its site each year.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress handles JD Advising’s student accounts and course access. Students in its premium bar courses log in for live and on-demand classes, memorization quizzes, tailored outlines, and weekly graded essays and performance tests.
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Evidence Based Birth
Check Out the Site: Evidence Based Birth
What They Do
Evidence Based Birth is a woman-owned company in Kentucky that shares unbiased, research-backed information about pregnancy and childbirth.
Expectant families get free articles, printables, and a popular podcast. Birth professionals, including doulas, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators, and physicians, get deeper training and support.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Evidence Based Birth uses MemberPress to run its Professional Membership for birth workers. The site also sells childbirth classes, continuing education courses, and an instructor certification program.
Scholarships for students, birth professionals of color, disabled birth workers, and birth workers in 18 developing countries open the membership to more people.
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A.T. Still University (ATSU)
Check Out the Site: A.T. Still University
What They Do
A.T. Still University is home to the original osteopathic medical school, founded in Kirksville, Missouri, in 1892. Today it has campuses in Missouri, Arizona, and California, with 3,622 students across seven schools and colleges.
It offers 40+ residential and online programs, including osteopathic medicine, dental medicine, physical therapy, audiology, and physician assistant studies.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
A.T. Still University uses MemberPress to manage access to its continuing education and certificate programs, which sit alongside its fully online ATSU Online degrees.
Busy healthcare professionals can sign up, pay, and keep learning without enrolling in a full degree.
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Luther Seminary
Check Out the Site: Luther Seminary
What They Do
Luther Seminary is a Lutheran theological school in St. Paul, Minnesota, focused on making theological education affordable and accessible for church leaders.
It offers M.Div., M.A., Th.M., and Ph.D. degrees, plus graduate certificates. Through Distributed Learning, students can complete most degrees online, with short on-campus courses once or twice a year.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Luther Seminary uses MemberPress to manage access to its continuing education and lifelong learning resources, such as Faith+Lead.
It also shares free resources like Working Preacher and the God Pause daily devotional, which keep alumni and supporters connected to the seminary.
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Academy of Scoring Arts
Check Out the Site: Academy of Scoring Arts
What They Do
The Academy of Scoring Arts was founded in 2009 by legendary composer, orchestrator, and arranger Ron Jones. An informal study of classic scores among Ron’s friends and peers turned into the place of learning it is today.
Today, the Academy of Scoring Arts is an opportunity for budding composers to study with modern masters of their crafts and help them take it to the next level.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Academy of Scoring Arts uses MemberPress to offer memberships to prospective composers/orchestrators.
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ATHome by Atlas Travel
Check Out the Site: ATHome by Atlas Travel
What They Do
ATHome by Atlas Travel is a host agency and travel school for independent travel advisors.
Whether advisors are just starting out, already experienced, or leading their own agency, ATHome gives them the technology, marketing tools, and support to grow their business.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
ATHome uses MemberPress to run its members area, where advisors log in to the ATHome Travel School library, which it calls “the most complete resource center for our Independent Travel Advisors.”
Inspired Minds
Check Out the Site: Inspired Minds
What They Do
Inspired Minds is Canadian-based professional development service for early childhood educators. The service has both on-site and online program components.
These components include in-person team and community workshops, online team and community webinars, coaching services, keynote speaker events, and other in-person and online special events.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress protects and manages client access to Inspired Minds’ online resources.
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Harter Secrest & Emery
Check Out the Site: Harter Secrest & Emery
What They Do
Harter Secrest & Emery is a full-service law firm founded in 1894, with more than 125 lawyers across New York State.
It’s recognized by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The firm’s online training platform is built on MemberPress. Clients and other professionals register for on-demand webinars and training series on topics like HR law and intellectual property.
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Psychiatrist.com
Check Out the Site: Psychiatrist.com
What They Do
Psychiatrist.com is the home of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders, published by Physicians Postgraduate Press.
It gives clinicians peer-reviewed research, clinical guidelines, continuing medical education (CME), and The JCP Podcast.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Psychiatrist.com uses MemberPress to manage journal subscriptions and access to its CME activities. Subscribers can log in to read full articles and earn credits from one place.
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Paid Research & Investing Memberships
When your members can put a dollar figure on what they learn from you, renewals get a lot easier.
That’s the deal with research and investing memberships. Traders, analysts, and industry insiders pay for information that helps them make better decisions, whether that’s daily options levels, market research on AI, or a deep dive into how the best product teams work. If one report saves them a bad call, the membership has paid for itself.
These sites put premium reports, data tools, and members-only communities behind a paywall, often with a couple of tiers for casual readers and serious pros. They also own their subscriber list outright, which matters a lot in a world where platforms can (and do) change the rules overnight.
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SpotGamma
Check Out the Site: SpotGamma
What They Do
SpotGamma gives traders institutional-grade options data and analysis.
It covers 3,500+ tickers with key support and resistance levels, options flow, and dealer positioning models, plus daily Founder’s Notes market commentary.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers SpotGamma’s subscription plans, each with a 7-day free trial. Every subscriber joins the SpotGamma Discord, and higher tiers unlock advanced tools like HIRO and an implied volatility dashboard.
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Brooks Trading Course
Check Out the Site: Brooks Trading Course
What They Do
Brooks Trading Course teaches price action trading from Al Brooks, a former eye surgeon turned full-time trader with more than 30 years of experience.
He’s also the author of four trading books published by Wiley.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress runs the course’s members area. For $399, students get lifetime access to a 52-module video course with more than 100 hours of lessons, plus a members’ forum.
Traders who want more can also subscribe to the live Brooks Trading Room for daily sessions.
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Everest Group
Check Out the Site: Everest Group
What They Do
Everest Group is a global research firm that helps businesses make better decisions about technology, services, and sourcing.
It’s known for its PEAK Matrix assessments and counts Global 1000 companies among its clients.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers Everest Group’s research portal. Members get access to its research, data, and expert assessments, and can filter reports by what’s included in their membership or available to buy.
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Emerj
Check Out the Site: Emerj
What They Do
Emerj is an AI research and media company that helps enterprise leaders understand where AI can drive real business value.
Founded by Daniel Faggella, it hosts the AI in Business podcast, which reaches more than a million enterprise listeners a year.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Through Emerj Plus, a membership powered by MemberPress, consultants and innovation leaders get a library of AI white papers, the Emerj AI Matrix use-case explorer, executive guides, and searchable interviews.
Members can pay monthly, annually, or once for lifetime access.
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Capital Market Laboratories
Check Out the Site: Capital Market Laboratories
What They Do
Capital Market Laboratories is a subscription-based online resource featuring comprehensive stock and investment news and tools.
The company also offers several award-winning digital investment software applications, including Trade Machine PRO (TMP) and Stock TradeMachine (STM).
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Capital Market Laboratories website mainly features premium content and data, which is protected and managed using MemberPress.
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Safal Nivesha
Check Out the Site: Safal Nivesha
Safal Niveshal is the Hindi phrase for “successful investor” – exactly what site owner Vishal Khandelwal is. Khandelwal has been a stock market investor for over 18 years.
For the last 10 years, he has used SafalNiveshal.com to share his investment knowledge with others. Since 2011, the site has grown to a community of 90,000 dedicated readers located in100+ different countries.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
What started out as a blog has since grown to a profitable business for Khandelwal. He’s used MemberPress to build an online curriculum to help small investors and provide access to premium content.
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Department of Product
Check Out the Site: Department of Product
What They Do
Department of Product studies how the world’s best product-led companies build and grow.
Its newsletter is read by 55,000 product people, and its research team tracks 500+ product leaders and has published more than 500 product teardowns.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Department of Product manages access to its product intelligence with MemberPress, from in-depth briefings and deep-dive reports to its Knowledge Series.
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Oil & Gas 360
Check Out the Site: Oil & Gas 360
Oil & Gas 360 is an online resource where professionals at EnerCom, Inc. provide insight on the latest energy, oil, and gas-related news.
Equity research analysts, government officials, private investors, and basically anyone who works in the oil and gas industry rely on Oil & Gas 360 for daily energy news updates.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
This MemberPress run subscription site offers a couple of different memberships users can join to get access to global energy standings reports, analyses, charts, and more.
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Business of Apps
Check Out the Site: Business of Apps
What They Do
Business of Apps is a leading B2B media platform for the app industry, serving the people who build, market, and monetize mobile apps.
Trading since 2012, it reaches around 500,000 users a month and runs the App Promotion Summit and the App Growth Awards.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Business of Apps manages its reader accounts with MemberPress, giving app marketers and developers one login for its research, guides, and industry data.
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Welsby Slater
Check Out the Site: Welsby Slater Membership
Welsby Slater authors and publishes documents for the construction, fit-out, and refurbishment sectors in the UK.
The company’s goal is to help construction business owners build their businesses with confidence. They provide access to documents that improves a company’s health and safety, and guard them against prosecution by the Great Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Welsby Slater uses MemberPress to provide members with exclusive, 24/7, unlimited access to its collection of premium documents.
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Magazine, News & Paid Newsletter Examples
Paid newsletters have gone mainstream, and that’s great news for anyone who writes for a living. The less great news? Platforms like Substack and Patreon take a cut of every subscription, forever. At $10,000 a month in subscriptions, a 10% fee is $12,000 a year you never see.
The publishers in this section took a different route. They run their paywalls on their own websites, with their own domain, their own subscriber list, and a flat software cost that doesn’t grow every time a new reader signs up.
You’ll find everything here from a 130-year-old Black-owned newspaper to one of the internet’s biggest entertainment sites, plus design, photography, fashion, and food magazines. Some offer ad-free reading, some lock their best journalism behind a subscription, and some send print copies to their top-tier members. All of them get to keep what they earn.
Bored Panda
Check Out the Site: Bored Panda
What They Do
Bored Panda is one of the internet’s most popular entertainment sites. Founded in 2009, it has reported more than 116 million unique visitors in a single month.
Its feel-good stories and photo lists cover art, photography, animals, design, and the funniest corners of social media.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Bored Panda Premium runs on MemberPress, and new readers can try it free for 30 days. It’s a smart way for a free, ad-supported site to turn its most loyal fans into paying members.
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PetaPixel
Check Out the Site: PetaPixel
What They Do
PetaPixel is one of the web’s leading photography publications, covering camera news, gear reviews, inspiration, and education.
It serves professionals and hobbyists alike with articles, buying guides, tutorials, videos, podcasts, and newsletters.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
PetaPixel uses MemberPress to run PetaPixel Members, which lets readers support the publication and read all its content ad-free.
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Grand Designs Magazine
Check Out the Site: Grand Designs Magazine
What They Do
Grand Designs Magazine is the official monthly magazine for the hit Channel 4 TV series hosted by Kevin McCloud.
Readers get stories behind the houses featured on the show, along with design advice and news about the Grand Designs Live exhibition.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Grand Designs Magazine uses MemberPress to manage its digital magazine subscriptions. Subscribers can read each new issue online, giving fans of the show a way to keep the inspiration going between episodes.
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Gambero Rosso
Check Out the Site: Gambero Rosso
What They Do
Ranking among the top 20,000 sites in the world ,Gambero Rosso is Italy’s leading authority on food and wine.
It publishes news, reviews, and rankings of Italian restaurants, wines, and olive oils, along with recipes, cooking courses through its Academy, and printed monthly and weekly magazines.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Gambero Rosso uses MemberPress to manage its subscriptions (abbonamenti). Subscribers log in to read premium content, get the monthly and weekly publications, and search its restaurant and wine guides with Premium search tools.
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Indianapolis Recorder
Check Out the Site: Indianapolis Recorder
What They Do
The Indianapolis Recorder has served Indianapolis’s Black community since 1895 and has been Black-owned throughout its history.
It reaches around 128,000 readers a week and won eight awards at the 2025 Indiana SPJ Best in Indiana Journalism Awards.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Recorder sells digital subscriptions through MemberPress, and most of its readers pay for digital or print access, helping fund independent community journalism.
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Fashion Gone Rogue
Check Out the Site: Fashion Gone Rogue
What They Do
Fashion Gone Rogue has been a leading online destination for women’s fashion since 2008.
It started with editorials, designer campaigns, and model news, and now covers runway collections, beauty trends, celebrity style, and shopping guides.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Fashion Gone Rogue’s Premium Membership runs on MemberPress, giving readers ad-free, unlimited access to its news, runway coverage, and lookbooks.
Readers can pay monthly ($10), every four months ($30), or annually ($90), which gives this free publication a steady stream of recurring revenue from its most loyal fans.
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The Fashionisto
Check Out the Site: The Fashionisto
What They Do
The Fashionisto has covered men’s fashion, style, and grooming since 2008.
Created by Carl Barnett, it’s a daily read for industry insiders and style-conscious men alike, with runway roundups, brand campaigns, celebrity style, and shopping edits.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
For readers who’d rather skip the ads, The Fashionisto offers a Premium Membership powered by MemberPress. Members get unlimited, ad-free access to its menswear news, runway coverage, and lookbooks, from $10/month.
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Sight Unseen
Check Out the Site: Sight Unseen
What They Do
Sight Unseen is an independent design magazine founded in 2009 by Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, both former editors of I.D. magazine.
From its base in New York, it covers the designers, artists, and makers shaping contemporary design.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Sight Unseen launched SU Friends, its first membership program, with MemberPress. Members get exclusive videos and talks in the SU Library, private Instagram Stories, shop discounts, and gifts made by designers.
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Booooooom
Check Out the Site: Booooooom
What They Do
Booooooom is Canada’s highest traffic art platform, and one of the largest on the internet. Managed by Vancouver-based artist, Jeff Hamada, Booooooom has established itself as an authentic voice in the new counterparty arts scene.
In the last decade, Booooooom has helped launch the careers of many young artists internationally by highlighting their incredible talents.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
With the MemberPress plugin, Booooooom manages a membership program strictly for artists, photographers, illustrators, and graphic designers.
Here, members can submit their work to be considered, apply for open calls, and even get 20% off Booooooom shop materials.
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Jot Down
Check Out the Site: Jot Down
What They Do
Hailing from Spain, Jot Down is a European cultural magazine founded by Mar de Marchis, Angel Fernández, and Ricardo J. Gonzalez in May 2011. The site currently enjoys over one million unique visitors.
With a commitment to a “rigorous yet entertaining” approach, Jot Down delivers important content in pop-art style. The approach has earned them a loyal following and time-tested appeal.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Jot Down uses MemberPress to offer subscriptions to its content at six different access levels.
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ParentData
Check Out the Site: ParentData
What They Do
ParentData brings data-driven answers to pregnancy and parenting questions.
It was founded by Emily Oster, a Brown University economics professor and New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers ParentData’s three tiers. Free readers get a taste of its 1,300+ articles, while Plus and Lifetime members unlock the full site, specialist newsletters like PregnantData and ToddlerData, and live events where they can put questions to Emily.
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The NonProfit Times
Check Out the Site: The NonProfit Times
What They Do
The NonProfit Times has been a leading independent information source for nonprofit managers since 1987.
It reaches more than 36,000 nonprofit executives in print and digital, and over 300,000 managers through its digital channels.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Readers subscribe to The NonProfit Times through MemberPress, which manages access to its digital edition and subscriber content.
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The Canary
Check Out the Site: The Canary
What They Do
The Canary is an award-winning independent news website that produces well-researched and incisive journalism. Their work is focused on news, ideas, and key developments that impact democracy, equality, freedom, and fairness.
The Canary is independent of any advertisers, funders, companies, political organizations, or political parties. This allows them to use their stories to ask the hard questions, give an opinion, and challenge the status quo.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Canary uses MemberPress to manage its membership audience, who receives an incredible seven articles a day, seven days a week.
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Truth or Fiction
Check Out the Site: Truth or Fiction
What They Do
TruthOrFiction.com features decades worth of award-winning journalism. The team gives users access to non-partisan information about e-rumors, fake news, disinformation, offers, myths, hoaxes, virus warnings, and humorous or inspirational stories circulated online.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Truth or Fiction uses MemberPress to give subscribers an ad-free reading experience as well as access to swag.
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El Orden Mundial
Check Out the Site: El Orden Mundial
What They Do
Headquartered in Madrid, El Orden Mundial is an independent Spanish language news website. As an international affairs publication, it specializes in geopolitical, economy and development, and society and culture-based news stories.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
El Orden Mundial uses MemberPress to manage its subscription plan through a paywall. This plan includes ad-free access to exclusive content.
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Navarre Press
Check Out the Site: Navarre Press
What They Do
The Navarre Press has been delivering news and information to the communities of Santa Rosa County, Florida, for over two decades.
In that time, they’ve been recognized as the Florida Press Association Division ‘C’ Weekly Newspaper of the Year six times.
Just this year, they went up a circulation category and took the overall prize for the Division ‘B’ Weekly Newspaper of the Year.
The team is dedicated to uncovering the truth with an aggressive, but fair, approach, considering it a social responsibility to give a voice to those otherwise unheard.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Navarre Press uses the MemberPress plugin to paywall its content and offer three membership plan options.
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Podcast Membership Examples
Podcast listeners are a loyal bunch. They let you into their ears on the commute, at the gym, and while they’re doing the dishes. After a few hundred episodes, they feel like they know you, and a surprising number of them would happily pay for more.
The podcasters below turned that loyalty into membership programs with ad-free feeds, bonus episodes, early access, and members-only communities. Instead of sending listeners off to a third-party platform (and handing over a slice of every payment), they run it all from their own websites.
The topics couldn’t be more different (longevity science, British history, fantasy football, and ghost hunting, to name a few), which goes to show that if people are listening, there’s a membership in it.
Peter Attia MD (The Drive)
Check Out the Site: Peter Attia MD
What They Do
Dr Peter Attia is a Stanford/Johns Hopkins/NIH-trained physician and host of popular podcast, The Drive.
The Drive podcast looks at the science behind longevity and wellness, making it accessible and actionable for everyone.
It features topics such as nutritional biochemistry, exercise, cardiovascular disease, mental health, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and much more.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Drive is wholly funded by members who sign up through Dr Attia’s website, enabling it to be ad-free and independent. The membership program is powered by – you guessed it – MemberPress.
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The Fantasy Footballers
Check Out the Site: The Fantasy Footballers
What They Do
The Fantasy Footballers is an award-winning podcast that highlights fantasy football content all year long. Hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright report accurate, entertaining, and high-quality fantasy football strategies and stats on the daily.
Recently, the show was awarded “Best Sports & Recreation Podcast” by PodcastAwards.com and “Best Sports Podcast” by iHeartRadio Podcast Awards.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers The Fantasy Footballers #FootClan club. It’s a tight-knit community where members enjoy exclusive content, premium projections, discounted store material, early access to shows, and more.
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Marketing School (Neil Patel & Eric Siu)
Check Out the Site: Marketing School
What They Do
Marketing School is a podcast that delivers “10 minutes of actionable marketing advice every single day.”
It’s hosted by two of the best-known names in digital marketing: Neil Patel, co-founder of NP Digital, and Eric Siu, CEO of the growth agency Single Grain. Listeners can tune in on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and more, and suggest topics for future episodes.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Marketing School uses MemberPress to manage listener accounts and gated extras around the show, such as bonus resources or topic submissions.
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The British History Podcast
Check Out the Site: The British History Podcast
What They Do
The British History Podcast takes a focus on British history with emphasis on “a three dimensional image” of the people, places, and events of the region.
The podcast was a finalist for Best Educational Podcast by The Podcast Awards and has been featured in Forbes, among others.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The British History Podcast uses MemberPress to manage its subscriptions, which offer members an ad-free experience.
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Amy Bruni
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What They Do
Amy Bruni is a paranormal investigator, author, and podcaster best known for Ghost Hunters and as co-host of the TV series Kindred Spirits. She also co-hosts the Haunted Road podcast and has more than 250,000 followers.
She brings fans along as she explores haunted locations across the country, from investigations to retreats and events.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Amy Bruni uses MemberPress to run the Paranormal Circle, her fan membership.
Members join livestreamed investigations from places like Gettysburg, watch haunted webcams, take part in expert Q&As, and get exclusive merch and discounts on paranormal events and retreats.
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Online Community Examples
Some memberships are really about the content. In others, the content is nice, but people stay for each other.
Paid online communities bring together people who’d struggle to find each other anywhere else: CFOs swapping notes on cash flow, real estate investors trading deals, makers sharing what’s on their workbench, or minimalists cheering each other on as they clear out the garage. Once members have built real relationships, they’re not in a hurry to leave.
Hosted community platforms have been raising their prices (and adding transaction fees), so more community builders are moving to a setup they control. The sites below use MemberPress to manage who’s in, what each tier can access, and how members pay, while the conversation happens right on their own websites.
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Make:
Check out the Site: Make:
What They Do
Make: is the publisher behind Make: magazine and Maker Faire, and it’s been at the heart of the maker movement since 2005.
Make: Community brings hobbyists, tinkerers, educators, and makerspaces together around hands-on projects, tutorials, and events.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Make: uses MemberPress to run its tiered memberships. The free Community tier unlocks the member and makerspace directories, while Premium adds the complete Make: digital archive, a magazine subscription, and members-only videos and events.
It also sells Multi-Seat plans with 8 to 20 accounts for schools and makerspaces, which is a great example of group memberships in action.
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Tiny Buddha
Check Out the Site: Tiny Buddha
What They Do
Tiny Buddha shares “simple wisdom for complex lives” through quotes, tips, and personal stories. Founded by Lori Deschene, it has more than 1.5 million followers.
Its Tiny Buddha Day-to-Day Calendar & Planner has been the #1 bestseller in the Mind-Body-Spirit category two years in a row.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Tiny Buddha’s community forums run on MemberPress, giving readers a place to support each other through topics like relationships and tough times. It also offers courses such as Breaking Barriers to Self-Care for readers who want to go deeper.
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The CFO Club
Check Out the Site: The CFO Club
What They Do
The CFO Club is a community and content hub for finance leaders.
It shares strategies, benchmarks, and frameworks to help CFOs and their teams make better decisions.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The CFO Club runs a free membership with MemberPress. Members get unlimited articles and benchmarks, AI prompts for finance leaders, a toolbox of FP&A and reporting resources, invitations to exclusive CFO roundtables, and first access to senior finance roles.
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The Wealth Club
Check Out the Site: The Wealth Club
What They Do
The Wealth Club is an online club/community for real estate professionals at any level – veteran to newbie.
With the goal of connecting members with people and resources to help them succeed, The Wealth Club is committed to promoting an accepting, welcoming, and friendly environment.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Wealth Club uses MemberPress to manage its comprehensive membership program, which they offer at four different price points.
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The Digital Project Manager
Check Out the Site: The Digital Project Manager
What They Do
The Digital Project Manager (DPM) was founded by Ben Aston in 2011. Today, it’s considered one of the most extensive and credible resources for digital project management thought leadership and information.
The goal of this online community and resource hub is “To Elevate The Conversation Surrounding Digital Work, Leadership, And The World Of Digital Project Management”.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
DPM uses MemberPress to operate its membership program. Subscribers enjoy access to a forum, live and on-demand mini courses, live mentorship, and other premium resources.
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Be More with Less
Check Out the Site: Be More with Less
What They Do
Be more with less is an innovative online community and resource hub built around the concept of minimalism.
The site offers courses, articles, an online community, books, articles, and podcasts designed to help people along on their journey toward decluttering (both mentally and physically) to obtain a simpler (and happier!) life.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Be more with less uses MemberPress to manage its highly exclusive VIP membership, which is so successful it’s currently waitlisted.
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Greylock CXO
Check Out the Site: Greylock CXO
What They Do
Greylock is one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capital firms, with early investments in companies like LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Discord.
Its CXO portal connects senior executives with Greylock’s portfolio of AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure, SaaS, and fintech companies.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Greylock keeps its CXO portal private with MemberPress. Access is by invitation only, and logged-in executives can explore portfolio companies, upcoming events, and insights from the Greylock team.
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Hobby, Fan Club & Sports Memberships
Nobody needs a membership to their favorite hobby. They just really, really want one.
That’s what makes passion-driven memberships so sticky. Whether it’s Disney parks, Liverpool FC, fantasy baseball, or a working ranch in Montana, fans aren’t weighing up the return on investment. They’re paying to get closer to the thing they love, and they keep paying for as long as they love it (which, for most fans, is a very long time).
The sites below offer everything from ad-free reading and live camera feeds to classic radio broadcasts and members-only analysis. If you’ve got a niche that people can’t stop talking about, chances are there’s a membership hiding in it.
This Is Anfield
Check Out the Site: This Is Anfield
What They Do
This Is Anfield is an independent Liverpool FC website, founded by two supporters in 2001, before many clubs even had an official website.
It now covers Liverpool news, match reports, player ratings, and opinion around the clock for more than a million social media followers.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
This Is Anfield Premium is built on MemberPress. For £5/month after a 7-day free trial, fans can read ad-free across the website and apps while helping fund independent coverage of the Reds.
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World of Walt
Check Out the Site: World of Walt
What they Do
World of Walt is the premiere hobby site dedicated to all things related to the Walt Disney Company. It provides consistent and up-to-date information about the goings-on over at the “House of Mouse”. And has a special on the different theme parks in Florida and California.
The site is considered a valued resource for fans around the world looking to plan a trip to one of these destinations.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
World of Walt uses our plugin to manage its Pin of the Month Club, getting exclusive Disney pins to its fans across the world.
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Bleacher Nation
Check Out the Site: Bleacher Nation
What They Do
Bleacher Nation started in 2008 as Brett Taylor’s independent Cubs blog and has grown into one of the largest regional sports blogs on the web.
It covers the Cubs, Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks with news, rumors, and analysis, plus betting, fantasy football, and collectibles.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Bleacher Nation uses MemberPress to run its “Go Ad Free” plan, which lets loyal readers support the site and browse without ads.
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Pitcher List
Check Out the Site: Pitcher List
What They Do
Pitcher List is an independent fantasy baseball publication with award-winning articles, rankings, sleepers, player data, and analysis.
Founder Nick Pollack, a former college pitcher and pitching consultant, now works with nearly 200 paid contributors. Together they publish daily content like SP Roundups, Hitter Recaps, and waiver wire advice, plus podcasts and streams.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Pitcher List uses MemberPress to run PL+, its paid membership starting at $5 a month. Members unlock premium rankings and analysis, plus PL Pro Tools for deeper player research during the season.
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Classic Baseball Broadcasts
Check Out the Site: Classic Baseball Broadcasts
What They Do
Classic Baseball Broadcasts is an archive of more than 10,000 hours of real baseball audio, including full radio and TV broadcasts going back to the 1940s, player interviews, and vintage commercials.
Founder Tom Hannon grew up listening to games with his dad on a 1955 Grundig radio. He built the archive after his father moved into assisted living and had nothing to do, so he could bring that joy to other older fans. Members can pull up every broadcast a single player appeared in with one click, and the daily email hasn’t missed a day in two years.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Classic Baseball Broadcasts uses MemberPress to run its memberships and member account page, where fans can reach the archive, manage their subscription, and submit support tickets. With Corporate Accounts, assisted living facilities buy access in bulk for their residents. The Gifting add-on lets members buy access for someone else, like a son or daughter giving their dad a way back into the game he loved.
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Days at Dunrovin
Check Out the Site: Days at Dunrovin
What They Do
Dunrovin Ranch is a Montana-based brick-and-mortar guest ranch that hosts guests from all over the world, year-round.
What’s unique about Dunrovin is its virtual ranch-cam component – “Days at Dunrovin”. Subscribers from everywhere sign up and pay a fee to see what’s “going on at the ranch” on the day-to-day.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
This brick-and-mortar dude ranch uses MemberPress to manage subscription access to its popular “Days at Dunrovin” ranch-cam.
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Pickleball Kitchen
Check Out the Site: Pickleball Kitchen
What They Do
Pickleball Kitchen is a website, podcast, and YouTube channel that helps players improve their game, from complete beginners to tournament competitors.
It’s run by Barrett Kincheloe, a PPR and IPTPA certified instructor whose mission is to help as many people as possible through the sport.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Pickleball Kitchen uses MemberPress to run PK Academy, its paid membership for players who want structured instruction beyond the free videos. Members can work through lessons at their own pace and keep coming back as their skills grow.
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Online Course Examples
If you can teach it, you can sell it as an online course. That might sound like a bold claim until you see the list below, which covers organic chemistry, gospel piano, German, hyperrealist pencil portraits, cake decorating, and painting tiny fantasy armies.
What these course creators have in common is that they started with something they were already brilliant at, and probably already teaching for free on YouTube, Instagram, or their blog. The course is how they turned that following into a business.
They all run their courses from their own websites. With MemberPress Courses, that means lessons, quizzes, progress tracking, and drip content (releasing lessons on a schedule so students don’t binge and burn out) without paying a platform a cut of every sale. Every new student is more money in the creator’s pocket.
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Master Organic Chemistry
Check Out the Site: Master Organic Chemistry
What They Do
Master Organic Chemistry was founded by James Ashenhurst, who holds a PhD in organic synthesis from McGill and did a postdoc at MIT.
His 400+ free articles break down undergraduate organic chemistry in plain language, and the site has had more than 100 million page views since 2010.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
With MemberPress, Master Organic Chemistry turns its free articles into a paid study membership. MOC members get thousands of practice quizzes organized by topic, a flashcard portal, and PDF summary sheets for Org 1, Org 2, and spectroscopy.
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Piano Lesson With Warren
Check Out the Site: Piano Lesson With Warren
What They Do
Piano Lesson With Warren teaches gospel and jazz piano online to players of every level.
It’s run by Warren McPherson, a touring gospel musician and church music director with a degree in classical piano performance.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers Warren’s subscription, which costs $39/month, $190 for six months, or $350 for a year, with a 7-day free trial.
Members get dozens of courses and song tutorials, theory quizzes, downloadable MIDI files and sheet music, group coaching, and monthly video reviews of their playing.
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Expertly German
Check Out the Site: Expertly German
What They Do
Expertly German helps intermediate and advanced learners reach fluency through a free weekly podcast.
Host Tom, a Berlin native, has recorded more than 265 episodes since 2020. The show now reaches 60,000+ monthly listeners and has 130,000+ followers on Instagram.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Learners who want to go further can join the Expertly German membership, which runs on MemberPress. Basic members get transcripts, vocabulary lists, exercises, and a B1-to-C1 roadmap for every episode, while Premium members also join a monthly live meetup with Tom on Zoom.
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Kelvin Okafor Art
Check Out the Site: Kelvin Okafor Art
What They Do
Kelvin Okafor is a London-based hyperrealist pencil artist whose portraits have been featured on the BBC series Extraordinary Portraits.
His style, known as “Emotional Realism,” has earned him prizes and gallery shows, and his portrait of Kate Moss sold at Bonhams for more than four times its estimate.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Kelvin’s Online Academy runs on MemberPress. Students sign up for step-by-step tutorials on drawing eyes, lips, noses, hair, ears, and shoulders, then put it all together in a full portrait course.
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Matt Adlard
Check Out the Site: Matt Adlard
What They Do
Matt Adlard is a baker, content creator, and author of the cookbooks Bake It Better and The Science of Baking. His social channels reach about 1 million followers.
He’s known for explaining the science behind great baking, so home bakers understand why a recipe works, not just how to follow it.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Matt Adlard uses MemberPress to run Bake It Better, his online baking classes for all abilities. A free trial lets new students try it out before joining, and members get a class library and their own members-only area.
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Cake Craft School
Check Out the Site: Cake Craft School
What They Do
Cake Craft School is an online academy that teaches the fascinating art of fondant modelling. In case you’re curious (we were!), fondant is a special cake icing with a sculptable, paste-like consistency.
Students benefit from more than 70 tutorials, 400 step-by-step videos, and templates.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Cake Craft School manages its enrollment with MemberPress, offering monthly, quarterly, and biannual access.
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Marie Burke Art School
Check Out the Site: Marie Burke Art School
What They Do
Marie Burke Art School is an online art academy run by published and highly accomplished painter, Marie Burke. The school specializes in teaching the skills of botanical and natural history painting through the medium of watercolor.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers the school’s Watercolor Members Club. Members get access to online courses and a premium community through monthly, annual, and gift subscriptions.
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Giuseppe Ottaviani
Check Out the Site: Giuseppe Ottaviani
What They Do
Giuseppe Ottaviani is an Italian trance DJ and producer known for his live performances on keyboards.
He entered DJ Mag‘s Top 100 DJs in 2024 and has played festivals like Tomorrowland, Ultra Miami, EDC Las Vegas, and Creamfields.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Giuseppe sells his €199 Producer Masterclass with MemberPress. When it launched, the course included 100 videos across eight chapters covering melody, bass, percussion, mixing, and mastering, and showed him building a track from scratch.
Students sign up on his site and log in to a dedicated Masterclass area.
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Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy
Check Out the Site: Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy
What They Do
Duncan Rhodes spent years as Games Workshop’s painting presenter, where his tutorials racked up millions of views.
Now he teaches miniature painters of every level through his own academy, and his Two Thin Coats paint range raised around $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy is a single-tier subscription powered by MemberPress. Members get new tutorials every week, courses on everything from figures to scenery, monthly painting challenges, early podcast access, and a members-only Discord.
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Salt in our Hair Academy
Check Out the Site: Salt in our Hair Academy
What They Do
Salt in our Hair is a travel blog founded by Nick and Hannah that has earned more than 40 million page views since 2016 and has 370,000+ followers on Instagram.
After growing the blog into a six-figure business, they now teach other travel bloggers how to do the same.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Salt in our Hair uses MemberPress to run its Ultimate Blogging Masterclass. Members get 80+ lessons across 14 modules, 40+ bonuses like media kit and business plan templates, a private community with live Q&As, partner discounts, and lifetime access to future updates.
NoCode University
Check Out the Site: NoCode University
What They Do
NoCode University is an online learning platform that focuses on teaching individuals how to build, automate, and innovate digital products like websites, apps, and automations using no-code tools.
The platform caters to non-technical individuals, offering courses in various aspects of digital creation without requiring traditional programming skills.
NoCode University provides interactive courses with a wide range of topics, including web and app development, and automation.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The site uses MemberPress to manage its courses and member management. Members get full access to their WordPress video tutorials to help them gain the skills they need to build, automate and innovate digital products.
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Dan’s Tutorials
Check Out the Site: Dan’s Tutorials
What They Do
Formerly known as Noteboom Tutorials, Dan’s Tutorials offers comprehensive training on all-things Apple through webinars, videos, online courses, and private consults.
All the Dan’s Tutorials membership levels (monthly, quarterly, and yearly) include the same perks, but the longer the duration the better the price.
Private training is a plan add-on offered at 30 and 60-minute rates.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers the Dan’s Tutorials memberships, private training products, and online courses.
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Membership Academy
Check Out the Site: Membership Academy
What They Do
We have a special place in our hearts for our friends at the Membership Academy – the leading online training community for membership site owners.
The program features an active online community plus comprehensive training and resources on planning, building, running, and growing a successful membership site.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Not only does Membership Academy support and recommend MemberPress, they use it to power access to their online program!
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Vidhya’s MomsNest
Check Out the Site: Vidhya’s MomsNest
What They Do
Vidhya’s MomsNest supports parents from pregnancy through the early years.
Founder Vidhyashree Ravi is an early childhood educator, certified childbirth educator, and infant massage instructor.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers the MomsNest membership, where parents log in to courses on childbirth and breastfeeding, the first year of parenting, right brain stimulation, phonics, Montessori math, and creative writing.
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Recipe Clubs & Premium Content Libraries
Not every membership needs to be a course. Sometimes people just want the good stuff: the meal plans, the printables, the templates, the recipe archive that saves them from staring into the fridge at 6pm.
That’s the idea behind a content library membership. Members pay for ongoing access to a growing collection of resources they’ll come back to again and again. It works brilliantly for food creators (hello, toddler meal ideas), teachers and homeschooling parents (lesson packs and book lists), and anyone with a back catalog that’s too useful to give away for free.
The sites below use MemberPress to put their best resources behind a login, offer monthly and annual plans, and keep adding fresh content so members always have a reason to stick around.
Yummy Toddler Food
Check Out the Site: Yummy Toddler Food
What They Do
With 1.7m followers on Instagram, Yummy Toddler Food is the #1 resource for nutrition-conscious parents worldwide. It offers easy recipes for kids and the whole family to enjoy. It also offers resources to help parents of picky eaters.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Yummy Toddler Food uses MemberPress to offer exclusive resources to paid members of the YFT community. Subscription includes weekly, customizable meal plans, bonus recipes that don’t feature on the main site, and an ad-free experience across the site.
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Annabel Karmel
Check Out the Site: Annabel Karmel
What They Do
Annabel Karmel is one of the world’s best-known names in baby and toddler food.
She has written 47 cookbooks that have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and she was awarded an MBE in 2006 for her work in child nutrition.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Annabel Karmel sells access to her award-winning recipe app with MemberPress. Subscribers get 1,500+ recipes, meal planners, weaning support, and allergy guidance, with a 7-day free trial.
Employers and childcare providers can also buy access for their teams.
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Kelsey Nixon
Check Out the Site: Kelsey Nixon
What They Do
Kelsey Nixon is a chef and TV host who has appeared on the Today Show, Food Network, Cooking Channel, and the Rachael Ray Show.
She helps busy families get dinner on the table with easy weeknight recipes and a simple approach to meal planning.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Kelsey Nixon uses MemberPress to run her Recipe Club. Members get 200+ recipes, weekly meal plans and shopping lists, a drag-and-drop meal planner, and new seasonal recipes every month, with no ads or long blog posts.
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40 Aprons
Check Out the Site: 40 Aprons
What They Do
40 Aprons is a recipe collection site run by Cheryl Malik. Cheryl has been avidly writing family-friendly recipes for over 10 years.
The site accommodates a variety of dietary considerations such as Whole30, vegan paleo, keto, and more. She and her long list of recipes have been featured in Women’s Health magazine, Comopoliation, Pop Sugar, and more.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Cheryl has used MemberPress to monetize her alternative diet blog since 2015. Members enjoy an ad-free experience including access to premium content.
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Health My Lifestyle
Check Out the Site: Health My Lifestyle
What They Do
Health My Lifestyle aims to encourage healthy eating habits by providing the tools needed to improve.
Everything you need to enjoy a healthy plant-based lifestyle including recipes and meal plans that are whole food plant-based, vegan and oil-free can be found on this site. They aim to make a plant-based diet practical and approachable.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Health My Lifestyle uses MemberPress to manage their Meal Planner subscription service. There are three varied membership plans, each including 400+ recipes, access to all prior meal plans, and automated shopping lists.
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Teaching Packs
Check Out the Site: Teaching Packs
What They Do
Teaching Packs creates ready-to-use classroom resources, from child-friendly eBooks to differentiated activities and display materials.
It was founded by Mark and Helen Warner, and thousands of teachers, parents, and home educators use its resources.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Teaching Packs runs individual and school memberships with MemberPress. Members log in to download resources from its library, and schools can give their staff access through a single school membership.
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Silo & Sage
Check Out the Site: Silo & Sage
What They Do
Silo & Sage helps families cultivate their home, homeschool, and motherhood.
It’s run by Jess, a former teacher who homeschools her five boys on a small Wisconsin homestead.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Literary Lounge, Silo & Sage’s language arts membership, runs on MemberPress. Members get curated book lists, printable guides and e-books, a quarterly magazine, exclusive videos, and monthly live calls with Jess.
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Toolshero
Check Out the Site: Toolshero
What They Do
With over 10 million visitors from more than 100 countries around the world, Toolshero supports a global audience of people eager to learn.
The online learning platform provides a wide variety of courses for both personal and professional development. Its most popular skills areas are change management, leadership, marketing, management, and problem solving.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers the Toolshero website, offering yearly, monthly, and weekly membership options.
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Kip
Check Out the Site: Kip
What They Do
With Airbnb oversaturated, Kip has curated a list of unique, quality, boutique rental properties in the UK.
Kip’s members can contact property owners and book rentals directly, saving on booking fees and other hidden costs that can inflate the total sum of your vacation.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Kip operates its membership program using MemberPress. Savvy travelers sign up to get full access to their collection and listing details to book direct with property owners.
Coaching & Consulting Membership Examples
There are only so many hours in the week, and if you’re a coach or consultant, most of them are probably already booked. That’s usually the moment people start looking for a way to help more clients without cloning themselves.
A membership lets you package what you already know (your frameworks, your programs, your hard-won advice) so clients can work through it on their own time, with you checking in through group calls, Q&As, or a private community. You’re still the expert in the room. It’s just a much bigger room.
The coaches and consultants below run everything from creativity programs and relationship coaching to college admissions counseling. With MemberPress CoachKit™, you can do the same: set up programs, track client milestones, and keep it all on your own site instead of juggling five different tools.
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Julia Cameron Live
Check Out the Site: Julia Cameron Live
What They Do
Julia Cameron Live is the official home of Julia Cameron, the bestselling author of The Artist’s Way and a founding voice of the modern creativity movement.
Named the “Queen of Change” by The New York Times, she has sold almost 4 million copies of The Artist’s Way and taught at the Smithsonian, Esalen, and the Omega Institute.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Julia Cameron Live uses MemberPress to sell and deliver its video courses, including The Artist’s Way Video Course, The Right to Write Video Course, and The Essential Tools Video Course. Students can work through each course at their own pace, right alongside the books.
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Maggie Reyes
Check Out the Site: Julia Cameron Live
What They Do
Maggie Reyes is a marriage mindset coach who helps Type A women build better marriages without adding more to their already packed schedules.
She uses cognitive behavioral and somatic coaching tools to get to the root of resentment and exhaustion, so clients can enjoy their marriages again. Her advice has been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, Bustle, and Lifehacker.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Maggie Reyes uses MemberPress to sell and deliver her two paid programs. The Marriage Mindset Makeover is a self-study course covering the foundations, while The Marriage MBA is a 6-month coaching and mentorship program. A free weekly email and a free download of five insight questions bring new readers in.
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Richard Dolan
Check Out the Site: Richard Dolan
What They Do
Dubbed the “Coach of Coaches,” Richard Dolan is a coach, mentor, author and public speaker.
Endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson and Deepak Choprah, Dolan is a thought leader on the conditions for optimizing human performance.
His aim is to help goal-oriented people, such as ntrepreneurs, workplace leaders, global brands and investors, enhance their personal and professional success.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Dolan uses MemberPress to power his successful Rich U Member program. Members can attend his live coaching events every Saturday and have access to 150+ hours of recorded coaching sessions.
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Keep the Adventure Alive
Check Out the Site: Keep the Adventure Alive
What They Do
Keep the Adventure Alive is run by Dr. Alyssa Kuhn, a physical therapist and osteoarthritis specialist with more than 340,000 followers.
She helps people with joint pain and stiffness stay active and keep doing the things they love.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Keep the Adventure Alive uses MemberPress to run Adventurers for Life, a follow-along fitness membership built for people with joint pain. Members move through six progressive levels of video workouts, with pain management resources along the way.
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College Transitions
Check Out the Site: College Transitions
College Transitions is the only online admissions counseling provider working in higher education. Their experienced staff consists of counselors, academics, and former admission officers.
These professionals help students find compatible school options and gain a competitive advantage in the admissions process.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
College Transitions uses MemberPress to manage its counseling services. These are offered through two plans – hourly and unlimited – that also include access to premium resources.
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Jeff Bullas
Check Out the Site: Jeff Bullas
What They Do
Jeff Bullas is one of the best-known names in digital marketing, with more than 33 million readers across 190+ countries.
Today his site focuses on helping people find clarity and purpose in the age of AI, with articles, a podcast, guides, and community forums.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Jeff Bullas manages reader accounts with MemberPress, giving his community one login for the forums, downloads, and guides on his site.
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Fitness & Wellness Memberships
I’ll be honest, I’m a sucker for a fitness challenge. Every January (and, let’s face it, most Mondays) there’s a part of me that’s convinced this will be the program that sticks.
Turns out I’m not alone, and that’s why fitness and wellness memberships do so well. People want structure, accountability, and someone telling them what to do today, and a membership gives them all three.
Pilates teachers, personal trainers, and physical therapists are turning their classes into on-demand libraries, live sessions, and monthly programs their members can follow from anywhere.
The sites below range from huge workout communities to specialists in pelvic health and pain relief. With MemberPress, they sell monthly and annual plans, drip new workouts on a schedule, and keep members motivated with challenges and community.
Team Body Project
Check Out the Site: Team Body Project
What They Do
Team Body Project is a UK-based online fitness platform run by founders Daniel and Alexandra. It offers safe, sustainable home workouts to help people lose fat and tone up without a gym.
Members can choose from more than 1,000 HIIT, cardio, resistance, circuit, Pilates, and boxing workouts, with new sessions added every week. A community of over 300,000 members keeps everyone motivated.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Team Body Project uses MemberPress to manage its free and premium memberships. Premium members unlock 80+ structured workout programs, a nutrition handbook, fitness testing tools, ebooks, and app access for working out offline.
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Pilatesology
Check Out the Site: Pilatesology
What They Do
Pilatesology provides clients with high-quality workouts without them ever having to leave home. Practitioners Alisa Wyatt and Jack Coble manage Pilatesology as the #1 source for Pilates workouts available completely online.
The team is made up of some of the best instructors in the world (nearly 70 professionals) who teach the original practices of Joseph Pilates himself. CBS News has called Pilatesology “the gold standard of online Pilates.”
How the Site Uses MemberPress
With MemberPress, Pilatesology offers all of their Pilates programs as a simple digital download available to a worldwide audience.
Pilatesology also has a membership community where students can chat about their success stories, obstacles, injuries, give advice, or ask questions.
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Carrie Pages Pilates
Check Out the Site: Carrie Pages Pilates
What They Do
Carrie Pagès is a Pilates instructor with more than 20 years of teaching experience and a winner of the Pilates Anytime Next Instructor Competition. She runs a boutique studio in Wilmington alongside her online studio.
Her classes are known for detailed cueing and smooth transitions, which makes them popular with other Pilates teachers as well as students.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Carrie Pages Pilates uses MemberPress to run its Online Studio membership. Members get 400+ on-demand classes on every apparatus, plus monthly live mini-workshops. She also sells continuing education workshops for instructors.
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Somatic Movement Center
Check Out the Site: Somatic Movement Center
What They Do
Somatic Movement Center teaches Clinical Somatics, a gentle movement method for releasing chronic muscle tension and relieving pain.
The approach uses a technique called pandiculation to retrain the nervous system and correct the posture and movement habits behind pain. Sarah Warren, the center’s educator, is also the author of The Pain Relief Secret.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Somatic Movement Center uses MemberPress to sell and deliver its online courses. It also runs a Clinical Somatics Training program that certifies instructors, who then appear in the center’s directory of certified teachers.
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Base Body Babes
Check Out the Site: Base Body Babes
What They Do
Felicia Oreb and Diana Johnson are the Base Body Babes (BBB). They specialize in female strength training, offering sessions online and in their boutique, strength-training facility in Sydney, Australia.
Their virtual training platform includes home and gym weight training courses and tutorials, access to the BBB recipe library, and more.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Base Body Babes manage their paywalled content and exclusive offerings on their website through MemberPress.
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Paul Sklar
Check Out the Site: Paul Sklar
What They Do
With 3 decades of personal training experience, Paul Sklar is one of the world’s leading authorities on natural strength training.
He motivates his 1.5M+ Instagram followers to defy the term “dad bod” and create a sustainable regular practice to build and maintain your strength year-round. .
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Sklar uses MemberPress to control membership to his PaulSklarXfit365 program. Members get access to video tutorials and an ebook explaining the principles and practical techniques needed to gain muscle and stay lean the natural way.
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Performance Plus Tennis
Check Out the Site: Performance Plus Tennis
What They Do
The Performance Plus Training Program has helped thousands of students develop their skills to become high-performance players.
Endorsed by former national champions and elite pros, coach John Craig has 30+ years’ experience transforming his students’ tennis skills to professional quality.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Performance Plus Tennis makes full use of MemberPress’s flexibility as a plugin. Using memberpress, coach John Craig manages access to his online courses.
His customers can choose to purchase individual courses, or get full access to the Performance Plus academy.
Academy members also get access to personalized video stroke analysis and coaching for tailored tips to improve their game.
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The Vagina Whisperer
Check Out the Site: The Vagina Whisperer
What They Do
The Vagina Whisperer was founded by Dr. Sara Reardon, a board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist on a mission to normalize conversations about pelvic health. She has more than 600,000 followers and wrote the book Floored.
She helps women through pregnancy, postpartum recovery, menopause, and beyond with at-home programs and virtual consultations.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Vagina Whisperer uses MemberPress to manage its V-Hive membership. Members get programs for every stage, from Pelvic Floor Restore and Pregnancy to Postpartum and Peri/Postmenopause, plus strength, yoga, and barre workouts.
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Clinics, Studios & Local Business Memberships
Membership sites aren’t just for online businesses. Some of the most creative examples on this list belong to places you can actually walk into: a taproom, a winery, a physio clinic, a therapy practice.
For local businesses, a membership is a brilliant way to turn one-off customers into regulars. Think wine clubs with members-only tastings, bar memberships that come with perks every visit, or a clinic that offers patients payment plans and exclusive resources between appointments. It’s predictable monthly income, and it gives your best customers a reason to choose you every time.
Industry-specific software for gyms, clinics, and studios can easily run $150–$400 a month. The businesses below use MemberPress to handle memberships, payment plans, and members-only content right on their own websites, without the per-member fees.
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Homestead Taproom and Kitchen
Check Out the Site: Homestead Taproom and Kitchen
What They Do
Homestead Taproom and Kitchen is a taproom and restaurant in Canal Winchester, Ohio, that calls itself a community gathering space.
Locals come in for food, drinks, and events, making it a neighborhood hangout as much as a place to eat.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Homestead Taproom and Kitchen uses MemberPress to run its Mug Club, a classic bar loyalty program brought online.
Regulars sign up through the website to join the club and enjoy member perks on their visits. It shows how a brick-and-mortar venue can turn its most loyal customers into recurring members.
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Cape Fear Food & Wine Club
Check Out the Site: Cape Fear Food & Wine Club
What They Do
Cape Fear Food & Wine Club is a not-for-profit cooking school and wine club in Wilmington, North Carolina, established in 2011.
It runs hands-on cooking classes, food and wine pairings, sommelier-led wine education, seasonal events, and kids’ cooking programs.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Cape Fear Food & Wine Club uses MemberPress to manage its low-cost memberships. Members log in to a member portal where they can see upcoming classes and book events, from Thai cooking nights to sparkling wine tastings.
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Newsells Park Winery
Check Out the Site: Newsells Park Winery
What They Do
Newsells Park is an English sparkling wine producer based at Newsells Park Stud, a thoroughbred breeding farm. Its state-of-the-art winery blends tradition and technology to make premium English sparkling wine.
The brand brings together two worlds: fine wine and the heritage of elite thoroughbred breeding and racing.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Newsells Park uses MemberPress to run its Wine Club Membership.
Members get “unparalleled access” to Newsells Park events, wines, and the vineyard, along with a window into the world of elite thoroughbred breeding and racing.
It’s a great example of a luxury brand using membership to build an exclusive community around a physical place.
Check Out the Site: Second Alarm Brewhouse
What They Do
Second Alarm Brewhouse is a nonprofit coffee shop in Pasadena, Maryland, with a mission to raise awareness of the volunteer fire service and recruit new volunteers.
It serves specialty lattes and its own Firehouse Blend coffee every day, and rents out conference and training rooms.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Second Alarm Brewhouse uses MemberPress to run the members-only area of its website.
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The Mummy Physios
Check Out the Site: The Mummy Physios
What They Do
The Mummy Physios is a women’s health physiotherapy clinic in Northern Ireland. It treats women at every life stage, from pregnancy and the postnatal months through to menopause.
Clients can book face-to-face consultations or use the clinic’s online platform. Group classes like postnatal Pilates sit alongside individual treatment.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Mummy Physios uses MemberPress to power its online platform and paid courses, including a structured 6-week postnatal course.
Members can follow guided recovery programs from home between clinic visits, which is a big help for new mums who can’t easily get out.
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Texas Dental Sleep Services
Check Out the Site: Texas Dental Sleep Services
What They Do
Texas Dental Sleep Services treats obstructive sleep apnea with dental sleep medicine, giving patients an alternative to CPAP machines.
Patients can find a provider and book online or see someone through telemedicine. Financing and help with insurance make treatment easier to afford.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Texas Dental Sleep Services uses MemberPress to run its Provider Membership Plans for dentists who want to offer sleep medicine.
Members get the TDSS DSM System, which covers workflow tools, billing support, marketing resources, advanced training, and ongoing mentorship. Separate patient and provider dashboards keep each group’s content in the right place.
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AboutPlay Therapy
Check Out the Site: AboutPlay Therapy
What They Do
AboutPlay Therapy is an occupational therapy practice in Atlanta built around “Transformation Through Play.” It supports children and teens with sensory and neurological needs.
Alongside one-on-one therapy, the practice runs summer camps, group sessions, school consultations, and workshops for parents and therapists.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
AboutPlay Therapy uses MemberPress to sell and deliver its parent programs. The Parent Sensory Lab is a three-module training series on sensory processing, with early-bird pricing to drive sign-ups.
The Star Child Program supports parents of sensitive, intuitive children. Both turn the practice’s clinical know-how into paid learning that families can access from home.
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The Little Birth Company
Check Out the Site: The Little Birth Company
What They Do
The Little Birth Company is a UK hypnobirthing provider founded by Wendy and Melissa. It helps expectant parents prepare for a calm, confident birth.
Parents can take hypnobirthing classes from certified instructors, plus a Positive Caesarean course, pregnancy relaxation classes, and a birth planning workshop. The company also trains new instructors through an accredited diploma course.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Little Birth Company uses MemberPress to manage its member login for students and instructors. Trainee teachers can access diploma course materials, while parents can reach class resources and recordings in one place.
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Benavieri Counseling
Check Out the Site: Benavieri Counseling
What They Do
Benavieri Counseling is a therapy practice in Chandler, Arizona, serving adults, teens, and children.
Services include individual therapy, life coaching, EMDR, neurofeedback, and psychiatric medication management. The practice also runs support groups for teens and offers consultation and training for other therapists.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Benavieri Counseling uses MemberPress to sell and deliver its online courses, such as “Therapy with Little Kids,” behind a member login.
A free mini-course, “Neuroception: How we make sense of things,” brings in new sign-ups who can later upgrade to paid courses.
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Pasadena Trauma Therapy
Check Out the Site: Pasadena Trauma Therapy
What They Do
Pasadena Trauma Therapy is a mental health practice in Pasadena, California, that specializes in trauma treatment.
The team works with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders using approaches like EMDR, Brainspotting, Parts Work, and somatic therapy. Clients can choose individual sessions, group therapy, or trauma therapy intensives.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Pasadena Trauma Therapy uses MemberPress to run the “For Therapists” side of its site, where professionals log in to an account.
Members can access online workshops on sexual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, and trauma and the body. The practice also sells consultations and tickets to its Dissociative Disorders Consultation Group, turning clinical expertise into training for other therapists.
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Brand & Product Company Examples
You might not expect a camera company, a haircare brand, or a maker of tractor mowers to show up on a list of membership sites. But brands have their own communities to look after too.
For product companies, a membership isn’t usually about selling content. It’s about giving their most loyal people something extra: a portal for salon professionals, a hub for photographers who shoot with their gear, a trade login for the press. It keeps those relationships close, and it’s all on the brand’s own website rather than scattered across social media.
The companies below use MemberPress to run pro communities, partner portals, and members-only resources. Proof that membership thinking works just as well for global brands as it does for solo creators.
Fujifilm X-Photographers
Check Out the Site: Fujifilm X & GFX Middle East & Africa
What They Do
This is Fujifilm’s regional home for its X Series and GFX cameras and lenses across the Middle East and Africa, from the X100VI to the GFX100RF.
Alongside its products, Fujifilm runs a busy creative community in the region, with workshops, photo walks, exhibitions, a Short Film Festival, and the GFX Challenge Program.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Fujifilm uses MemberPress to power its members area, where photographers register, log in to a personal dashboard, and submit their work through Feature Photo Submission.
It also supports the brand’s X-Photographers and Creators communities, which spotlight photographers from across the region. It’s a great example of a global brand using membership to build loyalty with its customers.
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PRAVANA
Check Out the Site: PRAVANA
What They Do
PRAVANA is a leading professional hair brand, owned by Henkel, that makes color, care, and styling products for salon professionals. Its social channels reach nearly 1 million followers.
The brand is known for its education, offering color masterclasses, product guides, mixing ratio charts, and a free online Color Certification.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
PRAVANA uses MemberPress to run its PRO accounts for stylists.
Pros log in to unlock tools like the Color Cost Calculator, colorist assets, an events calendar, and PRAVANA Perks, but only after completing the free Color Certification.
It’s a clever way to use membership to train and reward the professionals who use its products.
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ProGrade Digital
Check Out the Site: ProGrade Digital
What They Do
ProGrade Digital makes professional memory cards and workflow tools for photographers and videographers, including CFexpress, SD, and microSD cards, SSDs, card readers, and docks.
Its community section features a blog, videos, and work from contributing creators.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
ProGrade Digital uses MemberPress to manage customer accounts, where buyers can register their products and earn Pro Points Rewards on their purchases.
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Bush Hog
Check Out the Site: Bush Hog
What They Do
Bush Hog, Inc. was founded in 1951 and is North America’s leading manufacturer of finishing mowers, rotary cutters, landscape tools, and tractor-mounted implements for today’s agricultural market.
The company is headquartered in Selma, Alabama, and operates out of a 500,000 square foot manufacturing facility. Bush Hog enjoys a network of nearly 1,800 dealers throughout the U.S. and is supported by a team of close to 50 sales reps.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
Bush Hog uses MemberPress to provide an account hub where its dealers and reps can access resources like manuals, downloads, and up-to-date product info.
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Wired Productions
Check Out the Site: Wired Productions
What They Do
Wired Productions is a UK video game publisher behind titles like Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks, Hotel Architect, and BrokenLore: DON’T LIE, released across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
Its Media Portal is the go-to hub for press, with game pages, upcoming releases, and the latest press releases.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
The Trade Login on Wired Productions’ Media Portal runs on MemberPress.
Registered press and trade partners can log in to access gated materials, while anyone can join the Wired Press List for news and release updates. It’s a smart way for a brand to manage press and partner access in one place.
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Splasheo
Check Out the Site: Splasheo
What They Do
Splasheo is a time-saving tool that allows customers to create high-quality, short-form videos without having to hire an expensive marketing team.
Users can upload videos of any length, and Splasheo transforms them into engaging, revenue-driving shorts for platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Google – all set and ready to publish.
How the Site Uses MemberPress
MemberPress powers Splasheo’s monthly subscription plans, which include a free trial period and start at $99 per month.
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Site Examples by Industry
Prefer to browse by niche? Here’s every example in this post, grouped by industry. Open an industry, then click any site to jump straight to it.
Health & Medicine(13)
Fitness & Sports(13)
Food & Drink(12)
Arts, Crafts & Design(11)
Music, Film & Entertainment(9)
News, Writing & Publishing(11)
Fashion, Lifestyle & Personal Growth(8)
Finance & Investing(7)
Business, Marketing & Law(13)
Technology(10)
Education & Parenting(11)
The Takeaway
We hope you were pleasantly surprised to learn how many ways (and in how many different industries!) people are using MemberPress to monetize content, build communities, and grow online businesses.
If you happen to run a MemberPress website of your own, let us know in the comments. We’d love to feature what you do!
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Hi Syble. I’m in love with these collations. This is impressive. Well done!
Kudos to all at memberpress, there’s a huge amount of high profile member sites on this list. Im hoping one day one of mine will get featured! Great work to all involved, excellent contributions from the community too! Love it!
Hey Justin 😀 Thanks so much for your feedback. We’d love to check out your website!
What a comprehensive article! It really shows the versatility of the Memberpress offering.
These are great examples. We just launched our membership website and I created one for a client. Great software.
Love these examples. Thanks for sharing! I’m using MemberPress at my membership site called the MarCom Society, a community for K12 School Marketing and Communications Professionals: https://marcomsociety.org/.
That’s awesome, Brendan! Thanks for sharing! I’m adding your site to the list 🙂
Innovation and Creativity
Wow, what a throught out, well researched article! I like all the different industries 🙂 Personally, I use it for my membership for Nurses who want to build their own profitable writing businesses. Who would have ever thought that was a ‘thing’? 🙂
Great way to niche it down, Janine! Awesome 😀
This is great Syble, must have been some work collecting all these profiles! I’m so happy that I went with Memberpress when we created our membership site. It is hands down the best solution out there and I just really, really want to acknowledge your customer service as well. I get the feeling that each customer service agent is tech-savvy and they know how to help with advanced stuff too.
Thanks so much for sharing, Viktor! We appreciate the encouragement!
Thanks for sharing! I’m involved in the health and fitness industry and got some good ideas from two of the examples cited here.
Holy moly! This article was so helpful on getting ideas. I am bookmarking this.
We switched to Memberpress a few months ago for our financial education and organizing community, and am glad we did. I was struggling to assemble the community before, but since June, everything I’ve envisioned is working great. Tech support is first rate as well!
I’ve found MemberPress to be incredibly versatile – only once I started using it that I realised the breadth of use cases. Thanks for making a great product MemberPress!
MemberPress is such a great plugin. I love seeing how other users have employed it! It’s great to be in such good company.
We use memberpress since 3 yrs on our web site to sell subscription. It’s very easy to integrate and get people onboard! Excellent tool!
I’ve used MemberPress to power two Los Angeles-based composer organizations, the Society of Composers & Lyricists (thescl.com) and the Academy of Scoring Arts (scoringarts.com). It’s been a solid easy-to-use platform that has greatly increased our ability to serve our members and grow our organizations.
These sites are awesome! I’ve got them in the queue to be added to the listicle 🙂
Amazing, these are really helpful for inspiration. It can be hard in the early stages to think of how to create a membership site, or add it to an existing one. These examples provide plenty of opportunities to see what others are doing. Thanks for providing them!
I like how Miller Johnson Attorneys uses MemberPress to protect and manage their Resource Center for clients. Could be very powerful with member only livestreams or consult discounts (when logged in).
We agree! It’s so interesting to see the creative ways our creators are using the plugin.
Thank you Syble for taking the time and writing this in-depth article. The fact that this is categorized into different categories makes it easy to get to the relevant section I want.
I am evaluating different options for a client site and your example of Copy Hacker by Joenna Wiebe is something exactly I was looking at. Thanks again.
Really nice and thoughtful pages, very inspiring. Especially for those who are starting out building a website, a lot of ideas in one place. I praise
This has been the plugin I have been looking for. I have been wanting to create a B2B online teaching membership platform for the Spanish-speaking community. My family and I desire our Hispanic community to learn to grow their business beyond the little they know or have. been taught. Thank you memberpress.
I liked that you used real world examples about how a WordPress site can be converted into a members’ only subscription site. Good information that makes it easy to see why people should buy into this.
Gorgeous sites! And so many different uses of the platform too! We use Memberpress for one of our client’s sites and it has been amazing to bridge online community/profile with their in-person private lounge. And just when I think my client’s request might be too complicated, Memberpress has a solution! (Thanks for the trial period, MP team!)
Sites like DPM and online learning ones are new revolt
Thanks for great collection of ideas
Love these sites! Big shoutout to all the Memberpress members quickly changing the world 🙂
The team I work for expanded from disseminating content updates in a discord server to a full blown website. It didn’t take long to determine that Memberpress was the best solution for our needs. It’s integration with other plugins as well as the built-in API support for Stripe was pivotal to providing a seamless workflow for our users.
This move eliminated the need for cumbersome updates and now we can focus on the content vs. the admin. A superb product and honestly the support team is top notch. I’ve always received a message same day when submitted before closing time. A step up from other membership plugin providers.
Keep it up team!
The next time someone asks me for some examples of membership websites built Memberpress I won’t have to scratch my head. This article itself will do the talking on my behalf and do the work of convincing so that the person ends up buying Memberpress.
These all look incredible, hopefully one day my website will be on this list!
This is a wonderful round-up of tools and resources! I found websites I can gain education from, and it’s good to know a membership tool like this exists. I’m toying with the idea of creating one in the future, and reading this article gives me confidence that there’s a reliable ‘toolkit’ waiting for me to start that journey. Thank you so much!
Wow! Love these designs! And found some awesome blogs to follow as well 🙂
Memberpress has been and remains a reliable member plugin. It’s support base is great. No regrets so far and I strongly recommend it to anyone who faces challenges with getting a perfect membership platform flawlessly.
Thanks memberpress for this comprehensive article! It shows the many things this tool can do!
I’ve been using memberpress for 2 years now for my digital consulting services.
No sweat and I am looking forward to creating courses with Memberpress soon. All the best!
MemberPress is very flexible and can be utilized on many types of websites, to provide membership for multiple different purposes, from magazine subscriptions to app access, exclusive training to mock exam and a lot more.
Useful List. Great starting point for people looking to make a member site.
Thanks for sharing! very inspiring. I’m involved in the digital services company and got some good ideas from the examples cited here.
Fantastic article! I had heard of the MemberPress plugin but never realized that it can support so many different types of functions. I especially liked learning how MemberPress is being used to create community around a common interest.
Love these sites! Kudos to all the Memberpress team for such an amazing plugin:) I am in love with plugin and had been using on my site for last three years.
I just love all of the ideas that these organizations/businesses use in the employment of MemberPress. Very inspirational!!!
This is a treasure trove! I’m work on redesigning and redoing the landing page for my own membership, so this page provides great inspiration! Not only for design, but also for approaches, like grabbing attention, explaining the problem, offering a solution, policies, membership tiers, and more.
Thanks for putting together this great resource! I’ll be checking out all these sites for inspiration!
I manage a membership website built with Memberpress so I know how powerful the platform is. But it’s interesting to know how much useful it is in other industries as well. I am particularly interested in the online education space I have a project in that space coming down the pipeline and it will require a membership component. Thank you for the inspiration!
Great article! I got some nice ideas for my own project 🙂
Excellent plugin: with few clicks we were able to start with our subscription services. Integration with theme and other plugins very simple and efficient.
Good job!
I love some of the impressive and creative ways MemberPress has been used across a variety of industries. Definitely gave me some inspiration for my next MemberPress Project.
We are using Memberpress to sell online courses with the integration with Learndash. And it’s working very very well.
We completely recommend this integration. We don’t want to sell unit courses, because we preffer to sell a subscription with complete access to all courses.
Wow, it was impressive to see how Memberpress works for so many different industries! Including mine, my membership is for toy-making video tutorials.
What an interesting and awesome niche-down you’ve got going Jessica! Love it!
Memberpress helps us to create both membership sites and online courses! The dashboards look user-friendly and it integrates with other services like Mailchimp, Paypal and Stripe with support as well!
I love this idea to create a community! Thank you for sharing different examples in the travel field. Super helpful for envisioning how I can use a membership site.
Thanks for putting these together. This would be a very helpful resource for my upcoming membership website.
I’ve been meaning for the longest time to move all of my courses from Teachable to my own site using MemberPress. I think I’m finally ready to pull the trigger!
Thanks for all these examples. They show the adaptability and innovation behind this great plugin. Thanks!!
I have built so many client websites with MemberPress and these examples are a great showcase of all the possibilities. I’ve worked with Podcasters, Coaches, Teachers, Service Providers and so many more and the results were right on point.
This is phenomenal and deep article. Thank you so much for this well researched article. It really helped me
Great examples of websites using MemberPress! I’m getting ready to setup a membership site for a friend and i will show her the power and versatility of MemberPress.
Great article. Thank you so much for putting together such a rich collection of membership sites. It is definitely inspiring as to what can be done with MemberPress.
What variety! This is an incredibly thorough overview of what Memberpress has to offer. I am so impressed by these website designs and options. Definitely bookmarking this page for future reference!
Really inspiring list + lots of great ideas here for different ways to use MemberPress. It’s great to see so many examples of just how powerful MemberPress can be!
Thanks for all of the wonderful information. It’s all very helpful and there are so many ideas that will certainly come in handy with my own business. Very well done!!
Wow – 80 examples all on one page and it’s still quick to search through – good job on this article, it helped me make my decision in 5 minutes 🙂
This is such a good article to refer my clients to for examples of how MemberPress can be used in different ways to help their business.
I run an Organic food company, and I was thinking of a way to offer subscription based food parcel every week, this post is exactly what i was looking for! Memberpress will not only help me standout, it will make it easier for my customers as well.
That sounds amazing, Nizar! Let us know how it’s going 🙂
I love this plugin very much, I use its free version and I can’t wait to migrate to paid and make my members area for my Japanese course.
I’m amazed how many people I know aren’t using turnkey solutions like this for their efforts … and it ends up taking more time and money to manage them. To have so many diverse examples listed together like this really makes it convenient to browse and find examples of how the product might be applied for our own needs.
This article is excellent and very thoughtfully written. I’m impressed at the vast array of websites across a wide range of categories – really shows how versatile this plugin is. Super helpful being able to see all these examples for inspiration and brainstorming!
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MemberPress seems to be the only membership software provider that understands that choosing between different vendors is not just about features. It is also about seeing what picky customers are able to do with it.
The above list is at least 100x more useful than the feature enumeration and a few snippets from customers featured by the competition. I will be sure to refer people to this.
very good article with very well written examples
This was a very interesting article as its usually made from the MemberPress, I started to love this article right from the first paragraph as it was inspiring that I can read some very important things, well done and good luck in the future.