Free Membership Site Templates vs Paid

With thousands of Wordpress Templates available for free to use on your Wordpress Membership Site, why would you pay for one?

There are several reasons to pay for a membership site template.  I will warn you that these things will not be fun if you are not at least slightly technical in nature.

#1 A purchased Wordpress theme is going to have fewer users so your site will look more distinct.

#2 Support – Some Wordpress themes that you purchase have a degree of support.  If there is a message board and a develop to ask questions from, that is great.

#3 Tools – Many new templates not only have a great look and feel, but they also have great tools built into them.

#4 SEO – Some professional templates are highly designed to get maximum seo results.

#5 Features – Many Wordpress Themes will have wonderful features built in.

#6 Time Savings – Because of all the extras, purchasing a Wordpress theme can save you a lot of money.

Here is the bad new.  Anyone can build a Wordpress theme and you can use it for your membership site template – but you have to know what you are looking for and how to evaluate the tools and features to make a good buying decision.  You could do searches on Google to find Wordpress Themes that people are using as membership site templates and contact the person using it.  You can ask them if they like the Wordpress Theme, if they found it easy to set up, etc.

Carefully evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing a wordpress theme for your membership site template.

Free Membership Site Templates

Are you looking for a great free membership site template?

In this post, I am going to assume you have taken our advice from other articles and your have decided to build a membership site with Wordpress.

If you did, that is great.  Wordpress has thousands of free themes you can use for a free membership site template.

You do need to think about the goals of your membership site before choosing a free membership site template.

For example:

1. Is the membership site template wide enough to fit your images and videos?
2. Does your membership website template  appeal to your target audience?
3. Is your membership site template professional?
4. Does your membership site template require a large amount of customization and can you do the customization yourself?

A free membership site template is great, but if you need to invest in a lot of hours to further customize it you may have either chosen the wrong website template or you have an overly complex website planned and you may want to simplify it.