Complete e-learning platform to sell online courses, protect lessons, offer memberships, and quiz students. WP Learning Management System.
LifterLMS is a secure easy-to-use WordPress LMS plugin packed with features to easily create & sell courses online.
Download the LifterLMS plugin for free here directly from our website so you get instant access to all our valuable resources to help you get started quickly and easily for free.
Turn your WordPress website into a professional eLearning platform with every customizable feature you could possibly need from your LMS.
LifterLMS makes it easy to create, sell, and protect engaging online courses and training-based membership websites.
LifterLMS works with any modern WordPress theme/FSE, the Block Editor (Gutenberg), and every popular WordPress page builder including Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Divi.
With over 10 years development, our team is deeply engaged with the WordPress community. We encourage our integration partners to create the extensions you need most, like Affiliate WP, Monster Insights, WP Fusion, popular form plugins, GamiPress, Astra Pro, and more.
LifterLMS gives back to the open-source community. The core LifterLMS plugin is a totally FREE forever LMS – no limits on your courses, memberships, enrollments, or earnings.
We believe in free, distributed learning for all. LifterLMS exists to democratize education in the digital classroom.
Get to know our team and product. by signing up for a $1 temporary 30 Day website. You’ll get instant access to a private demo site hosted on our servers pre-installed with:
See why so many people start with or switch from another WordPress LMS or hosted platform to LifterLMS for online courses, membership sites, and remote schools.
Builders
We’re the favorite LMS plugin for WordPress developers, designers and IT pros who build LMS websites and training portals for clients, employers, and themselves
DIY
Do-it-yourself innovators love that LifterLMS helps them easily create high-value online courses, coaching or training-based membership websites, right on WordPress.
Switchers
Have you outgrown a hosted LMS platform or an incomplete WordPress LMS stack? Choose LifterLMS if you are looking for more power, control, and better support.
The LifterLMS team is a diverse group of talented course creators, developers, designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs.
Before developing LifterLMS, we consulted and built custom WordPress-based online learning and membership sites for clients worldwide. LifterLMS was born through this deep hands-on experience building high-end, custom WordPress LMS websites from scratch.
Learn more about the people behind LifterLMS.
Start with the free LMS plugin and scale-up as you grow.
Make Money Teaching Online
Set up LifterLMS, activate built-in payments with Stripe or PayPal. That’s all you need to get started.
When you need more features and to expand your online learning business, we’re here for you. We have several free and premium add-ons to help you create more value for your users, and scale your business revenue.
Create Courses on Your WordPress LMS Website
Engage Your Students
Offer Memberships
Integrate your WordPress LMS with the Tools You Need
Secure and Protect Your Content
Own and Manage Your WordPress LMS Platform
Get Support For Your WordPress LMS Project
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Advanced
Increase your LMS website and it’s training program’s value with these add-ons:
Integrations
Integrate your LMS with the tools you use:
Use LifterLMS with the modern LifterLMS Sky Pilot Theme for even more beautiful results. LifterLMS works with any well-coded WordPress theme, but check out Sky Pilot if you want to start with a modern, beautiful, full-site editing block-based theme. And consider using our Aircraft page builder plugin, to make building beautiful web pages fast using our design template library.
There are several other LMS plugins like:
There are some membership plugins with some course features like:
The main reasons we hear from users who switched to LifterLMS after trying out the best WordPress LMS plugins is that LifterLMS has:
The most common plugins and themes used with LifterLMS include Elementor, WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, WP Forms Lite, Akismet Anti-Spam, Elementor, Jetpack by WordPress.com, Classic Editor, Updrafts Plus Backup/Restore, Realy Simple SSL, All-in-One WP Migration, WordPress Importer, Starter Templates, Wordfence Security, Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights, Loco Translate, Slider Revolution, Astra Pro, Essential Addons for Elementor, WP Mail SMTP, WooCommerce Stripe Gateway, LiteSpeed Cache, Jetpack, Gravity Forms, MailChimp for WooCommerce, BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, Divi, Kadnece, Beaver Builder, bbpress, The Events Calendar, Ultmate Member, and more.
Connect LifterLMS to over 7,000 other apps like Facebook, Google Sheets, Zoom, Shopify, etc. using the LifterLMS Zapier app.
**All of our paid products include priority private support.
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LifterLMS is incredibly flexible, customizable, and scalable. Use it for a simple one course website. Use it as a course marketplace or multi-instructor online school.
LifterLMS is lightweight enough to handle small niche sites, while also powering huge universities and employee training in Fortune 500 corporations. We’ve even worked with a site that has 4,470,829 course enrollments.
Unlike hosted LMS software where you would pay increasing monthly fees for access and growth, LifterLMS does not charge you more per course, per instructor, per student, or based on your revenue.
Whether you are going big or keeping it small, LifterLMS scales to meet your needs.
“I’ve used many LMS platforms over the years. And they were all fine… right up to the day when they weren’t. The trouble is, they all want you to package and manage your course the way THEY think you should do it. THEIR feature set. THEIR way to do it. Now I host all my courses on LifterLMS. TOTALLY different experience. I’m free to do things MY way. I’ve never yet hit a wall where LifterLMS didn’t enable me to do things the way I wanted. Love it! Great support and community too.”
Nick Usborne, Teacher, Entrepreneur
“As a former School Teacher, professional User Experience Designer, and current online course creator – I can honestly attribute much of our success to LifterLMS and it’s consideration for multiple learning modalities, the LMS UI/UX out of the box, and natural student Engagement opportunities. In less than 10 months we’ve gone from $0 to $300K in revenue with LifterLMS playing a huge part in that!!”
Sarah Lorenzen, Teacher, Entrepreneur
When you download LifterLMS, you join a thriving community of education entrepreneurs, course creators, developers, LMS professionals, and WordPress enthusiasts.
We’re a fast growing open source eLearning community, and everyone seeking to build a sustainable online course business is welcome.
Join the LifterLMS VIP Facebook group to:
Join the LifterLMS Slack community if you’d prefer to connect in Slack.
Are you a developer interested in contributing to LifterLMS? Visit the LifterLMS GitHub Repository to find out how to support this open source WordPress LMS software.
Want to add a new language to LifterLMS? Contribute language translations at translate.wordpress.org.
Install the free LifterLMS plugin on your website,
then …
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LifterLMS Requires
Visit our full system requirements for additional information.
The simplest way to install LifterLMS is through your existing WordPress site’s admin. Let WordPress handle file transfers for you – you’ll never need to leave the web browser or admin panel.
To manually install LifterLMS, you’ll need to download the zip file using the “Download” link on this screen. Then, use FTP to manually upload the unzipped plugin folder to the proper plugins directory on your webserver.
Please see this WordPress Codex document for full instructions on Manual Plugin Installation.
After installation, LifterLMS launches a friendly (and super quick) Setup Wizard.
This wizard helps you configure LifterLMS so you can get to the fun stuff – like creating your courses – as quickly as possible.
The wizard includes a few sample courses you can import if you want to see some examples before you start creating your own content.
You can return to the setup wizard at any time by following these steps.
Infinitely customizable course catalog layouts: shown with course title, featured image, and instructor information.
View a single course with customizable content including access plans, difficulty, instructor, and lesson syllabus.
Edit courses in the WordPress block editor to add pricing tables, progress, outline, and more content.
Use the interactive Course Builder to structure your course, sections, lessons, quizzes, assignments and more.
Dashboard for course creators in the WordPress admin: an overview of recent statistics and quick links to common admin screens.
Advanced reporting for every learner so admins can track an individual students's course progress, membership, engagements, and achievements.
Clean and organized plugin settings to help you quickly and easily set up your course or membership site.
Detailed sales and enrollment reporting with built-in time periods or custom fields to filter by term, student, course, and membership.
Setup Wizard to help you install and configure your new online course website with LifterLMS in 5 simple steps.
You can explore the individual learning management system add-ons here or save BIG with a bundle
First, make sure that you’re running the latest version of LifterLMS. And if you’ve got any other LifterLMS plugins active on your site, make sure those are running the most current version as well.
The most common issues we see are either plugin conflicts, theme conflicts, or outdated servers. You can test if a plugin or theme is conflicting by manually deactivating other plugins until just LifterLMS is running on your site. If the issue persists from there, revert to the default Twenty Fifteen theme. If the issue is resolved after deactivating a specific plugin or your theme, you’ll know that is the source of the conflict. If it is a hosting issue, contact your web host and make sure they’re running the most current version of PHP.
Also be sure to check out the official LifterLMS Knowledge Base.
Users of the free LifterLMS should post their questions here in our WordPress.org support area. If you find you’re not getting support in as timely a fashion as you wish, you might want to consider purchasing a product from LifterLMS so you can access the LifterLMS support team.
If you’re already a LifterLMS customer, you can simply log into your account and contact the support team directly on the LifterLMS website. We can provide a deeper level of support in there and address your needs on a daily basis during the work week. Generally, except in times of increased support loads, we reply to all comments within 12 business hours.
LifterLMS offers technical support, but we do not offer custom website development services. However, we do recommend third party LifterLMS Experts who can help with web design, web development, instructional design or marketing for a fee. Click here to visit the LifterLMS Experts page.
If you’re not finding your questions answered here or on our website, you can ask your presales questions through this contact form. You can also connect live with a member of our team here.
You can find a full list of official LifterLMS Add-ons here
We care about your feature ideas and what you have to say. You can request a feature, vote on existing feature requests, and checkout the product roadmap.
Be sure you’ve taken the free tutorial training video course: How to Create an Online Course with LifterLMS. We also encourage you to get to know us by signing up for a $1 temporary 30 Day website on our servers which comes with the core LifterLMS plugin all our add-ons intalled. This demo allows you to test drive all the add-ons before you invest. Check it out here: Try LifterLMS for $1.
LifterLMS is an open source project. We manage our team, developers, issues, and code on GitHub.
We welcome contributions of all kinds, anyone can contribute even if you don’t write code! Check out our Contributor’s Guidelines to get started.
The LifterLMS team takes security issues and vulnerabilities very seriously. We appreciate your efforts to responsibly disclose your findings, and will make every effort to acknowledge your contributions.
Please contact [email protected] to report a security vulnerability.
You can review our full security policy at https://lifterlms.com/security-policy.
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Developer Notes
Updated Templates
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llms_switch_to_site_locale
and llms_restore_locale
to help LifterLMS add-ons switch to the site language when getting translation strings.Updates and Enhancements
Bug Fixes
Updated Templates
Bug Fixes
Updates and Enhancements
Bug Fixes
Security Fixes
Updated Templates
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Security Fixes
Updated Templates
New Features
LLMS_Add_On::get_image()
method to get the addon and author image. #2511Updates and Enhancements
Bug Fixes
lifterlms_student_dashboard
. #2550traverse_and_serialize_blocks
in place of the deprecated _inject_theme_attribute_in_block_template_content
.LLMS_Meta_Box_Access::$_saved
.Developer Notes
LLMS_Payment_Gateway::can_process_access_plan()
method to determine if an access plan can be processed by the gateway. Also added the filter hook llms_can_gateway_process_access_plan
to filter its result.llms_checkout_form_gateway_cant_process_plan
fired on the checkout form gateways section, when a gateway cannot process a specific plan.llms_unschedule_recurring_payment_on_access_pan_expiration
to control whether or not the recurring payments fo an order need to be unscheduled when the related access plan expires (true
by default).llms_course_syllabus_lesson_favorite_visibility
for disabling favorites in syllabus view.llms_is_$object_type_favorite
to change object’s (lesson, student, course) favorite boolean value.llms_lesson_preview_before_title
and llms_lesson_preview_after_title
action hooks.llms_template_syllabus_favorite_lesson_preview
.llms_favorites_enabled
to enable/disable Favorites feature.random_answers
. Thanks @AlexVCS! #2552Security Fixes
Updated Templates
Developer Notes
New Features
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Developer Notes
LLMS_Quiz_Attempt::randomize_attempt_questions()
.llms_quiz_attempt_questions_array
to allow filtering the quiz attempt’s question arrays.