The complete WordPress LMS
Courses, an exam-grade quiz engine, certificates, memberships, automatic instructor payouts, and a full REST API, all in one free plugin built to stay fast as you grow.
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Free and complete · From the makers of BuddyX and Reign
Why teams choose Learnomy
One plugin and a 3-step wizard set up your catalog, checkout, student accounts, and emails for you. You write the lessons; Learnomy handles the machinery. Load demo content in a click to explore first.
Learnomy stores your data in normalized database tables and navigates with the WordPress Interactivity API, so the experience stays fast whether you have 50 students or 50,000.
Your courses, your students, and your revenue live on your own WordPress. Your domain, your brand, your Stripe account. No platform sits in the middle taking a cut or holding your data.
What you can do
Every screen below is real Learnomy, running the complete feature set.
Course building
Structure a whole course in one tree: sections, lessons, topics, and quizzes. Video, audio, PDF, and reading lessons, drag-to-reorder, autosave, content drip, and prerequisites are all built in.
Assessment
Multiple choice, true/false, short answer, fill-in-the-blank, and essay ship free; Pro adds matching, ordering, numeric, math, and calculated for eleven in total. Five player layouts from a focused view to a sectioned exam board with a question map, plus subject scoring, proctoring, a reusable question bank, and an essay grading inbox, all in Free.
Instructors
Teachers apply, get their own dashboard, and earn a revenue share tracked on every sale. Stripe Connect pays them out automatically, so payday runs itself while you keep the platform.
Learners
A branded catalog, a distraction-free player, progress that saves itself, notes and bookmarks, certificates, and a billing history, all on clean front-end pages with dark mode. It installs as a PWA and syncs progress even after offline study.
Commerce
Direct Stripe and PayPal checkout, memberships with recurring billing and free trials, coupons, gift codes, and instructor commissions, all included. The money goes straight to your account, with no platform cut.
Everything, toggled
Learnomy is modular: each capability is a switch you flip from one screen. A module you turn off leaves your admin menu and registers nothing. Start lean, then enable more as your school grows, all from a single install with one update to manage.
The quiz engine
Six question types free, five more with Pro, across five player layouts, with a reusable question bank, timed and proctored attempts, and an essay-grading inbox, all in the free plugin.
Everything included
A lot of what teams end up buying as add-ons or wiring together with extra plugins is simply built into Learnomy. Here is the full picture, side by side, so you can see exactly what you get. Competitor data from their public documentation, July 2026.
| Feature | Learnomy | LearnDash | LifterLMS | Tutor LMS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced quiz types (matching, ordering, numeric, math) | Pro | ✓ | Add-on | Pro / partial |
| Essay and manual grading inbox | ✓ | Add-on / tier | Add-on | Add-on (Pro) |
| File-upload assignments | ✓ | ✓ | Add-on | Add-on (Pro) |
| Content drip and prerequisites | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Add-on (Pro) |
| Cohorts / group enrollment | ✓ | Higher tier | Add-on | Partial |
| Memberships with recurring billing | ✓ | ✓ | Gateway add-on | Add-on (Pro) |
| Instructor marketplace and automatic payouts | ✓ | 3rd-party | 3rd-party | Add-on |
| SCORM / xAPI / LTI / QTI / H5P | ✓ native | 3rd-party | 3rd-party | H5P add-on |
| Frontend course builder (no wp-admin) | ✓ | Top tier | ✕ | ✓ |
| One-click importer from other LMS | ✓ | Add-on | 3rd-party | ✓ |
| Normalized custom database tables | ✓ | Serialized meta | Serialized meta | Hybrid |
| WP Interactivity API, instant navigation | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Full REST API and headless | ✓ 166 | ✓ | ✓ | Read-only free |
| AI-agent ready (WP Abilities API) | ✓ | MCP server | ✕ | AI Studio (Pro) |
✓ = included in the product's own plugin or free tier. Add-on / tier / 3rd-party = available, but not in the base product. Verified against public documentation; features and packaging change, so check each vendor's site before deciding.
Under the hood
Learnomy was built on modern WordPress from the first line. That is what lets it stay quick as you scale, go fully headless, and answer to AI agents.
Courses, enrollments, progress, quizzes, and commerce each live in their own indexed tables. Queries stay lean and fast as your data grows, instead of scanning serialized meta.
Fast at 2,000+ courses and students.The whole learner experience moves without full page reloads, built on the WordPress Interactivity API. Your students get a modern, responsive feel on your own site.
An app experience on your WordPress.A complete REST API with JWT auth, batch requests, and offline progress sync. The same API powers the site and any mobile app or custom client you want to build.
Build anything on top.Every action is registered with the WordPress Abilities API, so agents can call it with permission checks. Native SCORM, xAPI, LTI, QTI, and H5P feed one reporting pipeline.
Future-proof and interoperable.Integrations
Learnomy comes from the team behind BuddyX and Reign, so it fits the WordPress stack you have: payments, community, video, credentials, and automation. One family, one support desk, no glue code.
Checkout runs through your own gateways, so the sale and the customer stay yours with no platform cut.
Give learners profiles, activity feeds, groups, and course Q&A, right beside the lessons.
Start free on BuddyX, add BuddyX Pro, or step up to Reign. Themes, LMS, and support all from one team.
Serve paid lessons as secure, watermarked video that cannot be downloaded or re-shared.
Issue verifiable badges and certificates learners can show off on their LinkedIn profile.
Fire any event to thousands of apps or your own endpoint, with no code required.
Every integration has a setup guide in the documentation.
Already teaching elsewhere?
A guided importer moves your courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions across from LearnDash, Tutor LMS, or LifterLMS, with an optional step for enrollments and progress. Keep teaching; upgrade the engine underneath.
Try the free importerFree, in full
Ready to scale?
Everything on this page stays free. When your academy grows into teams, cohorts, and multiple instructors, Pro switches on around your existing courses, with nothing to migrate.
Explore Learnomy ProPricing
The free plugin is complete, not a trial and not a crippled tier. Pro adds the institution features when you grow.
The complete teaching platform, on unlimited sites.
Everything in Free, plus the growth layer for one academy.
Unlimited sites and white-label for client work.
From the team you can trust
The plugins are user-friendly and everything works smoothly. The features are perfect for building professional websites and communities.
S W Malcolm · USTop-notch support. I have been frustrated by slow support for most themes and plugins, and they are helpful and quick to reply.
Woods · DEAfter 16 years of buying WordPress themes and plugins, I know what bad support looks like. Wbcom Designs is the polar opposite.
Duston McGroarty · US4.8/5 from 90 Trustpilot reviews · 100+ WordPress products since 2013
Questions
Yes. Courses, quizzes, grading, certificates, payments, memberships, and instructor sharing all work in the free plugin with no student cap and no time limit. Pro adds scale features like learning paths, cohorts, and automatic payouts, not the basics.
Yes. Learnomy keeps courses, enrollments, and progress in normalized, indexed database tables and navigates with the WordPress Interactivity API, so it stays quick as you add thousands of students.
Yes. A guided importer brings courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions across from LearnDash, Tutor LMS, or LifterLMS, with an optional step for enrollments and progress.
You. Checkout runs through your own Stripe or PayPal account, with no platform fees and no per-student charges.
Learnomy Pro. The free plugin is genuinely complete; Pro adds the institution features that growing academies pay for. Same model as the free plugins behind BuddyX and Reign.
Download the free plugin, run the setup wizard, and publish your first course today. Every module included, on as many sites as you want.
After 16 years of buying WordPress themes and plugins, I know exactly what bad support looks like and Wbcom Designs is the polar opposite. My setup was a nightmare: multiple tools, deep integrations, custom configurations that required…