Why move off Kajabi or Mighty Networks?

Two reasons. First, the math. Per-student or per-member fees compound. At 5,000 members the bill is uncomfortable. At 50,000 it pays for the entire rebuild. Second, the platform constraints. Custom checkout, custom member dashboards, custom integrations are usually impossible or limited. WordPress with the right plugins removes both ceilings.

How long does a migration take?

Six to ten weeks for a content-heavy site. Discovery is two weeks, build is three to five, content and member migration runs in parallel, and a soft-launch QA week closes it. We migrate during a low-churn window so members do not feel the swap.

Will members notice during the migration?

Email password reset on the new platform is the only friction. We coordinate the cutover with a member email explaining the upgrade. Existing course progress, certificates, and content access carry over. Payment subscriptions migrate to the new Stripe account without re-entering cards.

Can WordPress handle 50,000 paying members?

Yes, with proper engineering. The default WordPress hosting will not. We architect around object cache, database tuning, edge caching for marketing pages, and proper session handling. We have shipped membership sites past 100,000 active members.

How is this different from Circle or Skool for community-led members?

Circle and Skool are great for chat and threads. They are not great for paid courses, drip content, certificates, or product sales. If your business is mostly community, stay on Circle or Skool. If it is membership plus courses plus product sales, WordPress is usually the right answer.

What does a membership site engagement cost?

Migrations from Kajabi or Mighty are scoped per project. Custom membership builds are scope-dependent. Multi-tier platforms with community plus LMS are scoped after discovery. Discovery call is free and we send a fixed-price quote within 48 hours.

Industry Membership sites

Self-hosted Kajabi alternatives, built on WordPress.

MemberPress, Paid Memberships Pro, custom builds. Multi-tier pricing, drip content, member dashboards, group accounts. Full data ownership and zero per-student tax. We have shipped 40-plus production membership sites.

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Why this industry

Hosted platforms scale your bill faster than your business.

Kajabi, Mighty Networks, Podia, and Teachable charge per student or per member. The math works at 500 members. It hurts at 5,000. It demands a rebuild at 50,000. Self-hosted membership sites on WordPress have a flat infrastructure cost. The crossover point is usually past mid-six-figure annual revenue and every dollar past it is yours.

We have shipped membership engines on WordPress since 2018 and run our own community plus product business on the same stack. The patterns we use today are the ones we wish we had used on the first project. The savings compound from the first month after launch.

Course creators at scale

You outgrew Kajabi, Mighty, or Podia and the per-student fees no longer make sense. You want full ownership of the platform, the data, and the customer relationship.

Annual savings that pay back the rebuild in the first year.

Membership site owners scaling past 10,000 members

Your hosted platform throttles you, charges per seat, or limits customization. You need a platform that does not get more expensive as you succeed.

A flat-cost platform that scales linearly, not exponentially.

Multi-tier and bundled membership operators

Free tier, paid tier, premium tier, lifetime pricing, group accounts, family accounts, corporate accounts. The pricing logic that hosted platforms force you to simplify.

Pricing models that match the business, not the platform constraint.

Coaches and creator economy at scale

Newsletter plus courses plus community plus coaching calls plus product sales, all on one platform. The full stack that hosted platforms force across three subscriptions.

A creator stack with one login, one billing, one analytics view.

MemberPress and Paid Memberships Pro builds

Multi-tier pricing, drip content, member-only forums, member directories, content access rules. We have shipped 40-plus production membership sites on these stacks.

Membership engines that survive a 10,000-member ramp without performance issues.

Custom member dashboards

Personalized landing pages, course progress, certificates, account billing, content history, recommendations. The member experience that hosted platforms generic-out.

Dashboards that show who is drifting before they cancel.

Drip content and progressive unlocks

Content released by date, by member tenure, by course progress, by completed action. Drip schedules that match the program design, not the plugin defaults.

Cohort schedules that keep running without weekly babysitting.

Stripe billing with edge cases handled

Subscriptions, trials, dunning, proration, refund flows, tax, gift memberships, group billing. We have shipped Stripe billing in 12-plus membership sites and we know the dark corners.

Billing that does not generate refund tickets every Monday morning.

Migration from Kajabi, Mighty, Podia, Teachable

Member migration, content migration, payment history, SEO redirect maps. We have run six platform migrations and we keep the email list, the SEO, and the trust signals intact.

Migrations where subscriptions carry across without a lapse or a double charge.

Community plus LMS plus commerce

BuddyPress for community, LearnDash for courses, WooCommerce for one-off product sales, all on one login. Integrated correctly so the member journey is one experience.

One member experience instead of a stack of plugins that disagree.

40+

production membership sites shipped since 2018

Coaches, course creators, multi-tier operators, creator economy at scale.

What it costs

What a membership build costs comes down to billing and access rules.

Content is the easy half. What people pay, what they can see, and what happens when either changes is where membership projects get expensive.

What moves the number

How many tiers, and how they overlap One plan is simple. Tiers, bundles, add-ons and grandfathered pricing multiply the access rules behind every page.
Access logic Drip schedules, progressive unlocks, prerequisites and time-limited access each add rules that have to hold everywhere, including in search and in email.
Billing edge cases Dunning, pauses, upgrades mid-cycle, refunds and involuntary churn are the parts of Stripe that decide whether the site is a business or a leak.
Whether members are moving in Migrating from Kajabi, Mighty, Podia or Teachable means moving people, their history and their billing, and billing is the hard one.
What else attaches Community, courses and commerce alongside membership each add a layer, and all of them have to agree about who can see what.

If the site works and the problem is a handful of billing edge cases, that is hourly work and we will scope it that way.

Rough idea to delivery

You send the details What you want built, roughly, plus budget range and timing. The form asks for all of it
Within 4 business hours We read it and reply. Nothing is scheduled before we know what it is about
Then the call Free discovery, booked once there is enough on the table to make it worth your hour
Within 48 hours of the call A written fixed-price quote you approve before anything starts

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Why move off Kajabi or Mighty Networks?

Two reasons. First, the math. Per-student or per-member fees compound. At 5,000 members the bill is uncomfortable. At 50,000 it pays for the entire rebuild. Second, the platform constraints. Custom checkout, custom member dashboards, custom integrations are usually impossible or limited. WordPress with the right plugins removes both ceilings.
How long does a migration take?

Six to ten weeks for a content-heavy site. Discovery is two weeks, build is three to five, content and member migration runs in parallel, and a soft-launch QA week closes it. We migrate during a low-churn window so members do not feel the swap.
Will members notice during the migration?

Email password reset on the new platform is the only friction. We coordinate the cutover with a member email explaining the upgrade. Existing course progress, certificates, and content access carry over. Payment subscriptions migrate to the new Stripe account without re-entering cards.
Can WordPress handle 50,000 paying members?

Yes, with proper engineering. The default WordPress hosting will not. We architect around object cache, database tuning, edge caching for marketing pages, and proper session handling. We have shipped membership sites past 100,000 active members.
How is this different from Circle or Skool for community-led members?

Circle and Skool are great for chat and threads. They are not great for paid courses, drip content, certificates, or product sales. If your business is mostly community, stay on Circle or Skool. If it is membership plus courses plus product sales, WordPress is usually the right answer.
What does a membership site engagement cost?

Migrations from Kajabi or Mighty are scoped per project. Custom membership builds are scope-dependent. Multi-tier platforms with community plus LMS are scoped after discovery. Discovery call is free and we send a fixed-price quote within 48 hours.