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LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
A seasoned LMS that delivers free courses but lacks design freedom.
Healthy
80/100
Users appreciate the free features and support but struggle with limited design flexibility.
Active installs
~91,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
4.3★
593 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
0%
Holding steady
911 → 913 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreview volume down 50% vs prior 6mo
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · 0% in the last year
911/day a year ago→913/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayLearnPress is a well-regarded free LMS plugin for building and selling online courses, appreciated for its feature set and generally responsive support, though it falls short on customization depth, navigation UX, and compatibility with some third-party plugins.
What people like
- +Support team is frequently praised as fast, professional, and helpful×9
- +Free version is functional enough to launch a course without immediately needing paid add-ons
- +Good API, well-coded, and extensible with add-ons including WooCommerce integration
- +Supports multiple languages, allowing courses to be built in a user's own language
Common complaints
- −Customization is severely limited — course layouts cannot be edited, template overrides do not work as documented, and custom fields are difficult to implement
- −The 'visual builder' for frontend course editing is misleading — it is essentially just a reskin of the WordPress back-office, not a true visual editor
- −Navigation UX issues: key navigation buttons appear at the bottom of the page in small text, easily missed by students on smaller screens
- −Some core UX features are broken or missing out of the box, such as registration during checkout
- −Incompatibility with Polylang multilanguage plugin, with no support response reported
- −Early or inconsistent support experiences reported by some users before escalation to specific team members×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.42★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 593 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-20★★★★★sonicsha
- 2026-04-17★★★★★Como es posible, que con la version 4.3.5, se rompa toda la base de datos?José Manuel
- 2026-04-02★★★★★Simple, stable, powerfullinternet6
- 2026-04-02★★★★★Very Happy with LearnPressDunos
- 2026-02-06★★★★★Great plugin and supportAlex
- 2025-11-24★★★★★Very good PlugIn.bakhtiyor1chi
- 2025-10-22★★★★★Technical supportrobertodimaio
- 2025-10-12★★★★★Excellent + Amazing value in the free version.Erez Speiser
- 2025-08-20★★★★★Excellent Puginjusemora30
- 2025-08-01★★★★★Very good plugin with excellent supportjchris
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
913
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,039
Prior 7-day baseline
1,422
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
10,440
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,903
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-12.1%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
9%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.79
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
82%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-50%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.37 → 4.42★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered