LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes

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.

• Intuitive LMS Course Builder: Create Courses, Sections, and Interactive Lessons with multimedia content.
• Track Student Progress: In-Depth Reporting, Create Timed or Open Quizzes, Drip Content, Add Prerequisites, Analyze Progress, and Award Certificates
• Complete Ecommerce Platform: Built-in Gateway Integration for Stripe and PayPal With Memberships and Subscriptions
• Community and Social Learning: Integrate a Community Forum or Discussion Area, Add Multiple Instructors, and Display Course Reviews

Explore All LMS Features

LifterLMS makes it easy to create, sell, and protect engaging online courses and training-based membership websites.

Integrate LifterLMS With Any Theme, Page Builder, & Block Editor

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.

Open Source, Free Core Plugin

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.

Premium Add-ons and Bundles

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:

• the core LifterLMS plugin, AND
• every premium LMS add-on

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.

LifterLMS is Perfect For:

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.

Meet The LifterLMS Team

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.

LifterLMS By The Numbers

• 8,377,042 Course Enrollments powered by LifterLMS
• 12,570,881 Course and lesson completions powered by LifterLMS
• 186,997 Achievement badges awarded by LifterLMS
• 310,728 Certificates awarded by LifterLMS
• Over 10,000 active installs of the WordPress LMS plugin
• 308 5-star reviews

Features

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.

• Credit card payments
• One-time payments
• Recurring payments
• Payment plans
• Unlimited course and membership pricing models
• PayPal
• Subscriptions
• Checkout
• Free courses
• Course bundles
• Private coaching upsells
• Course and membership Coupons
• Bulk course and membership sales
• Affiliate ready
• Native course and membership sales pages
• Offline course and membership sales
• Customizable course and membership enrollment
• Country and currency
• E-commerce dashboard
• Credit card management
• Subscription switching
• Payment switching
• Native Zapier integration

Create Courses on Your WordPress LMS Website

• Course multimedia lessons
• Course quizzes
• Quiz question banks
• Course builder
• Course cohorts
• Drip Content
• Course and lesson prerequisites
• Course tracks
• Course assignments
• Quiz time limits
• Student dashboard
• Student note-taking
• Multi-instructor courses
• Lesson downloads
• Course import & export
• Discussion areas
• Instructional design
• Forum integrations
• Graphics pack
• Course reviews
• Group enrollments for courses and memberships

Engage Your Students

• Achievement badges
• Certificates
• Personalized email
• Social learning
• Private coaching
• Text messaging

Offer Memberships

• Sitewide membership
• Course bundles
• Traditional memberships
• Automatic course enrollment
• Bulk course enrollment
• Content restrictions outside of a course
• Members-only payment plans
• Private group discussions
• Members-only forums

Integrate your WordPress LMS with the Tools You Need

• Payment gateways
• Email marketing
• Forums
• Mobile friendly
• Use any theme or page builder
• Built for compatibility
• CRMs
• E-learning authoring tools
• Tin Can API (xAPI)

Secure and Protect Your Content

• Course protection
• User account management and registration
• Members only content
• Course only content
• Restricted access
• Password management
• Self-hosted

Own and Manage Your WordPress LMS Platform

• Detailed course, membership, ecommerce, and student reporting
• Course gradebook
• Email notifications
• Bulk course and membership enrollments
• Student management
• Course and membership access management
• Web design management
• Branding & typography
• WordPress LMS User Roles
• Security
• Require terms
• Scalable
• Layout
• Testing tools

Get Support For Your WordPress LMS Project

• Technical support
• 30 Days of live weekly onboarding calls called Liftoff Sessions
• Live office hours
• Free training courses
• Free training webinars
• Setup wizard
• Detailed documentation
• Dynamic resources
• Demo course
• System analyzer
• User community
• REST API
• Developer ecosystem
• Recommended Resources for course creators

More Resources

• The LifterLMS Official Homepage
• The LifterLMS Knowledge base
• The LifterLMS Blog
• The LifterLMS Podcast
• The LifterLMS Academy
• The LifterLMS Developer Blog

Enhance Your LMS With LifterLMS Add-Ons

Advanced

Increase your LMS website and it’s training program’s value with these add-ons:

• LifterLMS Advanced Quizzes
• LifterLMS Assignments
• LifterLMS Private Areas
• LifterLMS Social Learning
• LifterLMS Advanced Video
• LifterLMS Custom Fields
• LifterLMS Groups
• LifterLMS PDFs
• LifterLMS Private Site
• LifterLMS Course Cohorts
• LifterLMS Advanced Coupons
• LifterLMS Notes
• LifterLMS Continuing Education
• LifterLMS Gifts

Integrations

Integrate your LMS with the tools you use:

• LifterLMS Stripe
• LifterLMS PayPal
• LifterLMS Authorize.Net
• LifterLMS WooCommerce
• LifterLMS ConvertKit
• LifterLMS MailChimp

LMS Website and User Experience Design Tools

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.

• LifterLMS Sky Pilot Theme
• LifterLMS Aircraft
• LifterLMS Powerpack

Why Do People Switch to LifterLMS From Other LMS Plugins?

There are several other LMS plugins like:

• Sensei LMS
• Tutor LMS
• WP Courseware
• LearnDash
• Masterstudy LMS
• Academy LMS
• Namaste LMS
• LearnPress

There are some membership plugins with some course features like:

• Paid Memberships Pro (Membership plugin that also integrates with LifterLMS)
• MemberPress

The main reasons we hear from users who switched to LifterLMS after trying out the best WordPress LMS plugins is that LifterLMS has:

• The best most feature-complete customizable well-coded features
• Outstanding customer support including live calls
• The free LifterLMS plugin is amazing making the project affordable
• Memberships, ecommerce, and gamification included in LifterLMS without the need for 3rd party plugins

Other Plugins and Themes Commonly Used with LifterLMS

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.

Support From LifterLMS

**All of our paid products include priority private support.

• LifterLMS Support Ticket System, ready for any question you have about your LMS
• Liftoff Sessions access with live screen-sharing to help you get started with the LMS software
• LifterLMS Office Hours is a weekly Mastermind group hosted by LifterLMS CEO Chris Badgett and special guests

Save on LifterLMS With A Bundle

Save money and get more features.

• Free LifterLMS plan gives you everything you need to start with all the essential LMS features from unlimited courses, memberships, students, teachers, and more.
• Earth Bundle gives you all the essentials you need to get your online learning website up and running so it’s collecting money today with the most powerful secure learning management system software.
• Level up your online course LMS website with our ecommerce, design, marketing technology, and automation tools with the Universe Bundle.
• Add more engagement and student transformation potential to your immersive training programs with our entire suite of products including advanced features used by the best teachers, experts, and coaches with the Infinity Bundle.

Try the Best LMS Plugin

• Install the free core LifterLMS plugin right now. See how extensive and customizable our free core plugin is.
• Get a temporary 30 Day website on our servers with the core LifterLMS plugin AND all the premium add-ons installed. This demo website allows you to test drive all the LMS add-ons before you invest. Practice creating courses, test out the learner experience, and see how easy it will be to manage your course with WordPress. Install your favorite plugins & themes to test compatibility. Try LifterLMS for $1 now.
• Test LifterLMS as a student. Take a free course on how to build a LifterLMS website in 20 minutes. Take a Free Course now.

Scaling LifterLMS

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.

LifterLMS in Action

• Success Stories — Discover these amazing stories and accomplishments from our community of course creators.
• Showcase — Check out these websites using LifterLMS

What Others Are Saying About LifterLMS

“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

Join Our Growing Community

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:

• check out what other LifterLMS users are creating
• ask questions and support fellow course creators

Join the LifterLMS Slack community if you’d prefer to connect in Slack.

Contribute

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.

What Should You Do Next?

Install the free LifterLMS plugin on your website,

then …

Try out all the premium add-ons for $1 by signing up >>HERE<<

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Minimum System Requirements

LifterLMS Requires

• PHP 7.4 or later
• WordPress 5.6 or later
• MySQL 5.6 or later

Visit our full system requirements for additional information.

Automatic Installation

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.

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard
2. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New
3. In the search field, type “LifterLMS” and click “Search Plugins”
4. Once you’ve located LifterLMS, click “Install Now”
5. Once installation is complete, click “Activate”

Manual Installation

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.

Setup Wizard

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.

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   Infinitely customizable course catalog layouts: shown with course title, featured image, and instructor information.

2. 

   View a single course with customizable content including access plans, difficulty, instructor, and lesson syllabus.

3. 

   Edit courses in the WordPress block editor to add pricing tables, progress, outline, and more content.

4. 

   Use the interactive Course Builder to structure your course, sections, lessons, quizzes, assignments and more.

5. 

   Dashboard for course creators in the WordPress admin: an overview of recent statistics and quick links to common admin screens.

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   Advanced reporting for every learner so admins can track an individual students's course progress, membership, engagements, and achievements.

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   Clean and organized plugin settings to help you quickly and easily set up your course or membership site.

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   Detailed sales and enrollment reporting with built-in time periods or custom fields to filter by term, student, course, and membership.

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   Setup Wizard to help you install and configure your new online course website with LifterLMS in 5 simple steps.

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v9.1.2 – 2025-11-20

Updates and Enhancements

• Changed options for a new Access Plan to include gifts, and removing the Free Trial option.

Bug Fixes

• Avoid warning when creating the first access plan on a course/membership. #3046

Developer Notes

• Filters for displaying already enrolled message during checkout.
• Filter to avoid sending a Purchase Receipt under certain conditions.
• Filter to prevent automatic enrollment in a product after purchase completed.

v9.1.1 – 2025-11-11

Security Fixes

• Fixes security issue where student and instructor REST APIs can be used to modify roles incorrectly. Thanks @shark3y!

v9.1.0 – 2025-11-03

New Features

• New tabs to view students who have not yet attempted a quiz, and listing of all quiz attempts for a student.
• Option to allow unlimited time for a time-limited quiz to certain users.

Updates and Enhancements

• Apply filters to save any additional fields added to LifterLMS metaboxes.
• Adjusting syllabus styling for clarity on what can be clicked to navigate to a lesson. #3041
• Template changes for improved accessibility when taking a quiz when using a keyboard or screen reader.
• Re-label “Exit Quiz” button for clarity on resumable quizzes. #3025
• Show order summary for free enrolments.
• Removing “Estimated Completion Time” option from the Course Information block. #3016
• Show warning and avoid generating invalid checkout URLs if no Checkout Page is configured. #2984
• Making default password strength “weak” and changing strength requirements to minimize friction during checkout. #2848

Bug Fixes

• Fix wording for adding a featured video on memberships. #3034
• Fixing “user email required” warning when editing a LifterLMS form and changing a pattern. #2644

Developer Notes

• Additional filter to change available merge codes for certificates.
• Adds llms_embed_shortcode_output filter.
• Filter to control whether a question choice is marked as correct.

Updated Templates

• templates/admin/reporting/tabs/quizzes/non-attempts.php
• templates/admin/reporting/tabs/students/quiz_attempts.php
• templates/admin/reporting/tabs/students/student.php
• templates/checkout/form-checkout.php
• templates/quiz/meta-information.php
• templates/quiz/questions/content-choice.php
• templates/quiz/questions/content-picture_choice.php
• templates/quiz/results.php

v9.0.7 – 2025-09-16

Bug Fixes

• Additional check to avoid conflict with certain plugins alongside the Classic Editor. #3012
• Fixing checkout for countries that have no states/provinces/regions listed.

v9.0.6 – 2025-08-28

Updates and Enhancements

• Upgrades select2 library to latest release.

Bug Fixes

• Avoid loading the media protection attachment scripts when not needed. #3004
• Fix for “only recurring access plan” coupons. #3002

v9.0.5 – 2025-08-25

Bug Fixes

• Fix to allow checkout with UK and several other countries with no states/provinces/regions/areas. #2997

v9.0.4 – 2025-08-19

Bug Fixes

• Avoid fatal error if another plugin has loaded the Banner Notifications library.

v9.0.3 – 2025-08-19

Bug Fixes

• Additional checks for valid courses during the setup wizard. #2992

v9.0.2 – 2025-08-19

Bug Fixes

• Avoid fatal error during setup wizard if list of courses to import cannot be fetched. #2992
• Avoid i18n translation warning on brand new site when scheduling cron. #2990

v9.0.1 – 2025-08-18

Bug Fixes

• Fix “unsaved changes” warning when navigating away from a course/membeship with instructors block in it. #2986

Read the full changelog