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Building a Membership Site with Claude Code

WordPress, custom theme, payments, and email — start to finish.

38 lessons
2.5 hours
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About This Class

This is the complete build of a real membership website, filmed as it happened. Not a demo project. The actual site, from a voice-dictated idea all the way to a live site taking payments.

You’ll watch a design system come out of Claude Design, a custom WordPress theme get written by Claude Code, and then the full wiring: checkout with FluentCart and Stripe, email through FluentCRM and SendGrid, forms, member access, legal pages, all of it.

You’ll also watch it break. A seed button that claimed success and did nothing. A bright blue submit button on a black and white site. A product page that rendered empty. Every one gets diagnosed and fixed on camera, because that loop — build, check, show the AI what’s actually happening, go again — is the skill this course is really teaching. The tools will change. The loop won’t.

Nine sections. Watch straight through or jump to the part you’re stuck on. No schedule, no pace, yours as long as you have access.

Course Content

38 lessons · 2.5 hours
Start With A Conversation4 lessons Why I’m Building This in the OpenPreview1:19Briefing Claude by VoicePreview4:27Scoping the Site: Pages, Model, BrandPreview11:28The Design BriefPreview1:48
A Design System in Claude Design3 lessons Generating the Design SystemPreview2:08Touring What Came BackPreview1:41The HTML Preview: Seeing the Site Before WordPress ExistsPreview3:15
Hosting & a Clean WordPress Install3 lessons Spinning Up WordPress on xCloudPreview1:30First Login and CleanupPreview1:49Site Settings That MatterPreview0:41
The Fluent Stack6 lessons FluentCRM: Install and First-Run SetupPreview3:31FluentCart: Initial SetupPreview0:52FluentCommunity: Install and Portal BasicsPreview1:54Email That Actually Delivers: FluentSMTP + SendGridPreview6:48Fluent Forms: The Contact FormPreview3:13What FluentCRM Is Actually ForPreview1:44
Claude Code Builds the Theme4 lessons Handing Off: Design System → Claude CodePreview2.00Answering Claude Code’s Questions WellPreview2:51Getting an Installable ThemePreview7:14Install, Activate, First LookPreview0:41
Pages, Settings, and the Iteration Loop9 lessons Creating Pages and Assigning TemplatesPreview4:16Home Page, Menus, and Build SettingsPreview5:38Round 2: Teaching the Theme to Ship With ContentPreview6:56Thinking Ahead While the AI WorksPreview4:48The Seed Button That Didn’t SeedPreview4:16Content Questions and the Repeater DiagnosisPreview6:38The Waitlist Form and Round 3Preview2:26v1.2: Manually Finishing the ContentPreview11:17The Blue Button and the Wonky FooterPreview4:04
Products, Payments, and Member Access5 lessons Creating the ProductPreview3:38Building the Portal SpacesPreview7:19FluentCart Configuration: Checkout, Terms, StripePreview7:47Wiring Access: Store-Level and Product-LevelPreview3:09The Empty Product Page and the Direct Checkout LinkPreview7:44
Email Automation3 lessons Waitlist Plumbing: Tag + Form IntegrationPreview1:28The Waitlist Email and AutomationPreview3:23Where Email Goes From HerePreview2:03
Wrap1 lesson What We Built and What’s LeftPreview2:18

FAQ

Questions About This Course

Can Claude Code really build a complete WordPress website?
Yes. In this course, Claude Code writes an entire custom WordPress theme from a design brief and a design system — templates, styling, and an admin settings page. I didn't write a single line of the code. The finished site is live, takes payments through Stripe, and manages member access.
Do I need to know how to code to build a membership site with AI?
No. Every line of code in this build was written by Claude Code. What you need is the ability to describe what you want, look at what got built, and tell the AI what's wrong. The course shows that loop over and over, including the times the AI said something was done and it wasn't, and how I caught it.
Should I use WordPress or a static HTML site for an AI-built website?
WordPress, if the site will ever change. Claude Code can generate a static HTML site fast, but then every headline or price change means another AI session and pushing files live. With a custom WordPress theme, the AI writes the code once and you update content from the WordPress admin forever after. This course builds it the WordPress way.
What plugins turn WordPress into a membership site?
This build uses the Fluent suite: FluentCart for checkout and Stripe payments, FluentCRM for email marketing and automation, Fluent Forms for contact and waitlist forms, FluentCommunity for course hosting and a members area, and FluentSMTP with SendGrid so email actually delivers. The theme runs on Advanced Custom Fields Pro. Every one is installed and configured on camera.
How long does it take to build a membership site with Claude Code?
The core build came together in about a day of real work, plus a few short rounds of fixes after. The course condenses it to about two and a half hours of footage across nine sections, with nothing skipped — including the debugging.
What will I be able to do after taking this course?
Run the same process on your own project: brief the AI by talking, generate a design system, have Claude Code build a custom WordPress theme, wire up payments and email, and debug the gaps by feeding the AI what's actually on screen. The tools will keep changing. The process is the part you keep.

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