# Pick your Plugin: WordPress Membership Site Tutorials
*Published: 2014-09-07*
*Tags: membership-sites, wordpress*
*Source: https://chrislema.com/wordpress-membership-tutorials*
---### Building a WordPress Membership Site?

[Last week](https://chrislema.com/membership-site-rainmaker/) I walked you thru the creation of a WordPress membership site on the [new Rainmaker Platform](https://chrislema.com/newrainmaker).

Some of you asked, right away, for other tutorials, not aware I'd already created a few. So I thought I would combine them and make them all available here.

So without wasting any more of your time, here are two more tutorials for creating membership sites using WordPress plugins.

### Using WooCommerce for your Membership Site

To create a site like this, you'll need several extensions including the [Subscriptions extension](https://chrislema.com/prorating-woocommerce-membership-charges/) from WooCommerce that I wrote about recently.

### Using iThemes Exchange for your Membership Site

If you do go this route, can I recommend you buy the [Exchange Pro Pack](https://chrislema.com/propack), because it will give you the membership extension, recurring payments, Stripe gateway and integration with MailChimp, all in a single bundle.

### Need more than just a Membership Site?

As I told you before, sometimes you need more than just a membership site.

Sometimes you need a **platform**, which I explored in another series of posts.

- Part One: [You need more than just a website](https://chrislema.com/you-need-a-platform/)
- Part Two: [You need to start with a plan](https://chrislema.com/building-your-platform-wordpress-first-steps/)
- Part Three: [You need to pick the base of plugins you'll use](https://chrislema.com/building-your-platform-base-plugins/)
- Part Four: [Building an Author Site with iThemes Exchange](https://chrislema.com/author-site-ithemes-exchange)
- Part Five: [Building a Musician's Site with Easy Digital Downloads](https://chrislema.com/band-site-easy-digital-downloads/)
- Part Six: [Stand alone Membership plugins won't work](https://chrislema.com/many-stand-alone-membership-plugins-wont-work/)

All of these articles help you if you're a DIY kind of person. If you want help building your membership site or platform, [**let me know.**](https://chrislema.com/contact/)