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MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education
Great course tools fighting against clunky layouts and constant nudges.
HealthyDeclining
62/100
Good design and support are offset by outdated CSS and frustrating upgrade requirements.
Active installs
~19,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.5★
479 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-13%
Declining
369 → 320 installs/day
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
Declining · -13% in the last year
369/day a year ago→320/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMasterStudy LMS is generally praised for its responsive support, fast performance, and feature-rich modern design, but users report frustrating PRO upgrade requirements and outdated front-end CSS that hampers customization.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful customer support×2
- +Fast and well-optimized performance×2
- +Regular updates and well-maintained codebase
- +Feature-rich with a modern, attractive design
Common complaints
- −Pressured to upgrade to PRO plus despite already purchasing PRO features, requiring separate activation
- −Front-end CSS and layout system are outdated and inconsistent, with hard-coded heights causing layout breakage
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.60★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 47%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-11-112025-09-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 479 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-27★★★★★Works very wellbonigantile
- 2026-05-18★★★★★Support is excellent and working finejhaaloky2k
- 2026-05-15★★★★★Great plugins, great customer service, and a great companybmde
- 2026-05-13★★★★★Excelente!psycopyme1-shot
- 2026-05-12★★★★★Best LMS choicewathiqoon1-shot
- 2026-04-27★★★★★Thanks Bill 👍mrewbie65812
- 2026-04-24★★★★★all fine nowjugiii
- 2026-04-19★★★★★Excellent Service With Feature Rich Toolstrendingtechdevelopers261-shot
- 2026-04-16★★★★★Great LMS plugin and very helpful teamkrolik1231-shot
- 2026-02-16★★★★★Responsive Service and well donealenyeoh1-shot
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.
287
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
311
Prior 7-day baseline
268
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,293
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,314
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-7.7%
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.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.54
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
47%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-32%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.60 → 4.60★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered