Why WordPress instead of Canvas, Moodle, or D2L?

For corporate training, course creators, and continuing education, WordPress with LearnDash is faster to customize, cheaper to operate, and easier for marketing to integrate with. For accredited degree programs, Canvas or Moodle is usually the right answer because the institutional integrations are already built. We can integrate with both.

Can WordPress handle 10,000 enrolled learners?

Yes, with proper engineering. We have shipped LearnDash sites past 50,000 active learners. The default WordPress hosting will not handle it. The plugin will. Architecture and database tuning matter more than the plugin choice at that scale.

How do you handle FERPA and student data?

FERPA-aware hosting partners, audit logs on student records, role-based access controls, data retention policies, breach response runbooks. We document the architecture for your compliance team. We are not a FERPA auditor and we do not pretend to be.

Can you migrate from Teachable, Thinkific, or Kajabi?

Yes. Course content, student records, payment history, and SEO redirect maps. The migration takes four to eight weeks depending on volume. We keep the existing student URLs working so password reset emails do not break.

What about WCAG accessibility?

Education sites have legal accessibility requirements. We design and build to WCAG 2.1 AA from the start. We run automated audits with axe and Pa11y, plus manual screen reader testing. We document the gaps where vendors or third-party content blocks full compliance.

What does an LMS engagement cost?

Course creator migrations from Teachable are scoped per project. Custom LearnDash builds are scope-dependent. University and corporate training portals are scoped after discovery depending on SSO and integration scope. Discovery call is free.

Industry Education

LearnDash, BuddyPress, and certification systems.

Universities, corporate training, course creators with five-figure programs. We ship the LMS, the community layer, the SSO integration, and the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility that education sites legally need.

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60+ LearnDash sites shipped since 2016

Why this industry

Education has constraints that other industries skip.

Accessibility is a legal requirement, not a nice-to-have. Student data has retention rules. SSO with the institutional IdP is non-negotiable for universities. Cohort-based programs need a community layer that on-demand video platforms cannot provide. Most agencies skip these constraints because they are unglamorous. We lead with them.

We have shipped LearnDash since 2016, BuddyPress integrations since 2017, and institutional SSO since 2019. The work compounds. The patterns we use today are the ones we wish we had used on the first project.

Universities and continuing education

Department websites that need to talk to a course catalog, single sign-on with the institutional IdP, FERPA-aware data handling, accessibility audits to WCAG 2.1 AA. The engineering is unglamorous and most agencies skip it.

A university course portal that passes accessibility review and the IT security team.

Corporate training and L&D teams

Compliance training, certifications, manager dashboards, SCORM and xAPI imports, automated assignment by role or department. Enterprise reporting that HR can actually run.

Training portals that 5,000 employees use without IT help desk tickets.

Course creators at scale

You outgrew Teachable, Thinkific, or Kajabi and you want a platform that does not charge per student. WordPress with LearnDash, plus a community layer, plus your own checkout.

A course platform with no per-student fees and full content ownership.

Cohort-based course operators

Live cohorts, member directories, group discussions, mentor-student pairing, capstone projects, certificate workflows. The community layer is what separates cohort programs from on-demand video libraries.

Cohorts that finish together, because pacing is designed rather than hoped for.

LearnDash and LifterLMS development

Custom course types, group enrollment, drip schedules, prerequisite logic, certificate templates, gradebook integrations. We have shipped 60-plus LearnDash sites and we know the plugin source code.

LMS sites that match the program design, not the plugin defaults.

BuddyPress community plus LMS

Cohort discussions, group projects, member directories, mentor matching. The same BuddyPress engineering we ship for community platforms, integrated with the LMS data layer.

A learning experience where the course and the conversation are the same place.

Certification and credentialing systems

Custom certificate templates, expiration dates, renewal workflows, public credential pages, badge issuing, integrations with Credly or Open Badges. Audit-ready records for regulated industries.

Credentials that survive a regulatory audit two years after issue.

Single sign-on with institutional IdPs

SAML 2.0, OAuth, Shibboleth, LDAP. We integrate with Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, and university IdPs. User provisioning, role mapping, deprovisioning on offboarding.

SSO that the IT security team approves and the help desk does not own.

SCORM and xAPI content imports

Existing SCORM packages from Articulate or Captivate import directly. xAPI events flow to a learning record store. Legacy LMS content does not have to be rebuilt to switch platforms.

Migrations where course content, enrolments and progress carry across.

WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility

Education sites have legal accessibility requirements in most jurisdictions. We design and build to WCAG 2.1 AA, run automated audits, and document the gaps where they exist.

Accessibility audits that pass without remediation contracts.

60+

production LearnDash sites shipped since 2016

Course creators, corporate training, universities, certification programs.

What it costs

What an education platform costs depends on who has to be let in, and how.

Courses are the easy part. The cost lands in the surrounding requirements: identity, credentialing, accessibility and the content you already own.

What moves the number

How far past the stock LMS you go LearnDash and LifterLMS cover the basics. Instructor panels, group dashboards and real reporting are where the work is.
Whether it has to talk to your IdP Single sign-on with an institutional identity provider is a fixed piece of work, and it is rarely optional once an institution is involved.
Certification and credentialing Issuing a certificate is small. Tracking credits, expiry, renewal and an auditable record of who earned what is not.
What content already exists SCORM and xAPI imports vary enormously depending on what produced the packages and how consistent they are.
The accessibility bar WCAG 2.1 AA as a design constraint from the start costs less than AA retrofitted after a procurement review says so.

If the real need is fixing a LearnDash or LifterLMS install that mostly works, that is hourly work and not a platform project.

Rough idea to delivery

You send the details What you want built, roughly, plus budget range and timing. The form asks for all of it
Within 4 business hours We read it and reply. Nothing is scheduled before we know what it is about
Then the call Free discovery, booked once there is enough on the table to make it worth your hour
Within 48 hours of the call A written fixed-price quote you approve before anything starts

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Tell us who learns, how they pay, and whether cohorts matter. Those three answers shape most of the build.

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Why WordPress instead of Canvas, Moodle, or D2L?

For corporate training, course creators, and continuing education, WordPress with LearnDash is faster to customize, cheaper to operate, and easier for marketing to integrate with. For accredited degree programs, Canvas or Moodle is usually the right answer because the institutional integrations are already built. We can integrate with both.
Can WordPress handle 10,000 enrolled learners?

Yes, with proper engineering. We have shipped LearnDash sites past 50,000 active learners. The default WordPress hosting will not handle it. The plugin will. Architecture and database tuning matter more than the plugin choice at that scale.
How do you handle FERPA and student data?

FERPA-aware hosting partners, audit logs on student records, role-based access controls, data retention policies, breach response runbooks. We document the architecture for your compliance team. We are not a FERPA auditor and we do not pretend to be.
Can you migrate from Teachable, Thinkific, or Kajabi?

Yes. Course content, student records, payment history, and SEO redirect maps. The migration takes four to eight weeks depending on volume. We keep the existing student URLs working so password reset emails do not break.
What about WCAG accessibility?

Education sites have legal accessibility requirements. We design and build to WCAG 2.1 AA from the start. We run automated audits with axe and Pa11y, plus manual screen reader testing. We document the gaps where vendors or third-party content blocks full compliance.
What does an LMS engagement cost?

Course creator migrations from Teachable are scoped per project. Custom LearnDash builds are scope-dependent. University and corporate training portals are scoped after discovery depending on SSO and integration scope. Discovery call is free.