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Learnomy

Launching an online course usually means stacking a course plugin, a payments addon, and a membership plugin. Learnomy ships all three in one free LMS: courses, quizzes, verifiable certificates, checkout, and memberships. It is AI-agent ready too: every LMS action is exposed through the WordPress Abilities API, so assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can discover and run your academy. Free forever.

9 releases
v1.6.0 latest
July 9, 2026 shipped
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v1.6.0 Latest

July 9, 2026
New 2 Improve 2 Fix 4 Dev 2 Compat 1

New

  • Certificate library: four ready-made certificate designs (two Course Completion, two Quiz Completion) are seeded and available to every instructor out of the box, so a course can award a polished certificate with no design work.
  • Instructor availability: admin-designed certificates stay private to admins by default, and you can share any template with all instructors or specific instructors from the certificate designer.

Improve

  • Instructors now pick a certificate from a clear, labeled list (Course Completion or Quiz Completion) scoped to what they are allowed to use, instead of a long list of unlabeled templates.
  • Test payment mode is now clear and honest: one "test payment mode is on" notice instead of a misleading "customers cannot purchase" warning, and simulated Test-gateway orders are recorded at zero so they never inflate your revenue, earnings, or payouts.

Fix

  • Deleting an instructor now reassigns their courses to the site admin with a confirmation notice, instead of leaving those courses showing "Unknown".
  • The lessons list now labels standards content types correctly (SCORM, xAPI, LTI, QTI, H5P), while learners no longer see the underlying technical type on course cards.
  • Member account pages (Certificates, Notes, Spaces, Learning Paths, Cohorts, Assignments, Billing, Details) now carry proper browser and search titles instead of just the site name.
  • A certificate whose course was later deleted now verifies as "Course no longer available" and stays valid, instead of showing "Unknown Course".

Dev

  • New extension point learnomy_route_title lets add-ons title their own front-end routes; new filters learnomy_unknown_instructor_label and learnomy_technical_content_types.
  • Certificate library is an extensible registry: add designs on the learnomy_certificate_designs filter (seeded idempotently), and tune the specific-instructor picker cap with learnomy_certificate_instructor_choice_limit.

Compat

  • Requires Learnomy Pro 1.6.0 for the Pro modules. Install both updates together.

v1.5.0

July 6, 2026
New 4 Improve 6 Fix 6 Security 1 Dev 1 Compat 1

New

  • Course-approval gate. Require admin approval before an instructor's course goes live, with a global toggle, a per-instructor override, and Approve or Reject actions on the Pending Review tab.
  • Content moderation. Members can report a review, comment, or course, and admins action those reports from a new Reports queue.
  • Per-template email editor. Edit the subject and body of any Learnomy notification from Settings using merge tags, with no code.
  • SEO plugin handoff. When Yoast or Rank Math is active, Learnomy defers its canonical and Open Graph tags to that plugin while keeping its own Course structured data.

Improve

  • The Email Log now records and shows the failure reason for a failed email, adds a one-click resend, and lets you search by recipient and date.
  • Admin usability sweep: a single Learning Standards hub, a per-module surface map with Pro toggles locked when Pro is not installed, and clearer setup-wizard signposts.
  • Coupons can be restricted to specific courses with a searchable picker, and the enrollment card now reprices live when a coupon is applied.
  • The wp-admin course builder can now add a topic under a lesson without leaving the builder.
  • The course builder and lesson drip scheduling batch their database work instead of running per-row queries, so large courses load and schedule faster.
  • Removed two dead settings surfaces - the site-wide lesson-body search and the API Keys screen - that were wired to nothing.

Fix

  • Catalog search is now fully keyboard-navigable and announces the active suggestion to screen readers.
  • The instructor dashboard now shows the Awaiting Grading widget so essay and manual attempts are not missed.
  • The data-integrity CLI check now flags only genuine orphaned progress rows instead of false positives.
  • In the wp-admin course builder, a section's Rename, Move, and Delete now work the moment you add it, without reloading the page.
  • Deleting a parent course category no longer hides its sub-categories; they move up to the parent's level instead of disappearing.
  • Attempting to refund an already-refunded transaction now reports "already refunded" instead of a misleading "not completed" message.

Security

  • Closed access-control gaps found in a security sweep: the public subscribe endpoint no longer lets a paid plan be joined for free, and REST API keys are accepted only in the request header, not the URL.

Dev

  • New extension points: learnomy_lesson_unlock_date, learnomy_membership_plan_after_form, a course sidebar-card footer seam, and public per-member credential REST endpoints for certifications and teaching.

Compat

  • Requires Learnomy Pro 1.5.0 for the Pro modules. Install both updates together.

v1.4.0

July 3, 2026
New 12 Improve 8 Fix 5 Security 1 Dev 2 Compat 1

New

  • Closed course pricing. Sell a course on any external platform (your own checkout, Gumroad, a CRM) and grant access here by email, CSV bulk upload, or an automatic signed webhook; refunds can auto-revoke access. Includes a copy-paste connection recipe on the Webhooks screen.
  • Solo Academy mode. One switch turns Learnomy into a single-instructor academy, hiding every instructor-marketplace surface (instructor registration, commissions, earnings, become-instructor links) and forcing the monetization module off.
  • Large-exam mode for the Focused and Review board layouts. A clickable question map, flag-for-review, per-answer autosave, and resume to the exact question and remaining time, verified at 150 questions.
  • Five quiz layouts, each labelled with its best use case: Focused (timed exams), Classic (class quizzes), Sectioned (SAT/GRE-style), Conversational (knowledge checks), and Review board (long certification exams).
  • Group questions by subject or category across all five quiz layouts, with a per-category score breakdown in the results so a raw percentage becomes a subject-wise diagnostic.
  • Free section navigation for the Sectioned layout. Candidates choose which section to attempt first and switch between sections until they submit.
  • Rich question stems. Author a formatted passage or scenario above a question's answers, stored round-trip-safe and rendered across every quiz layout.
  • Quiz proctoring. Track when a student switches browser tabs, flag it for graders, and optionally auto-submit the quiz after a configurable number of switches; a monitored notice on the start screen tells candidates the rules before they begin.
  • Native Fediverse video. Embed PeerTube and other Fediverse videos through SSRF-guarded oEmbed discovery, with no per-domain allowlist to maintain.
  • Course search autocomplete. A typeahead dropdown of matching course names appears as you type on the catalog.
  • Content-standard foundation. New lesson content-type, first-login provisioning, and quiz hooks let the Pro SCORM, xAPI, LTI, QTI and H5P modules plug straight into Learnomy's own progress, grading and reporting.
  • The demo installer now seeds a categorized certification exam so a fresh install showcases grouped display, one-click navigation, and subject-wise scoring out of the box.

Improve

  • Add questions from the Question Bank while creating a quiz, without having to save and reopen it first.
  • The per-attempt exam-integrity report for graders now shows the submission IP address alongside the tab-switch count and late-submission signals.
  • Every front-end and admin string is translatable, including the Interactivity-API quiz, catalog and membership modules, with professional copy and refreshed language templates.
  • The quiz layout picker in the editor now describes the best use case for each of the five formats, so instructors choose the right one without guidance.
  • The membership FAQ editor is now an add/remove repeater instead of a fixed grid of blank rows.
  • Admin polish sweep: uniform on/off toggles, consistent status badges and action buttons, clearer Email Log and Settings, a shared CSV-import component, and self-contained settings cards across screens.
  • The demo installer seeds a complete, non-empty dataset on every screen (real courses, lessons, reviews, webhooks, cohorts, spaces, and a categorized certification exam) so the product demonstrates fully out of the box.
  • AI-assisted translations now ship at full coverage for 9 Free locales (German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Russian).

Fix

  • Multiple-choice answer options no longer re-shuffle when a student resumes an in-progress quiz.
  • Flag-for-review marks on the Review board layout now survive a mid-exam refresh.
  • The lesson-player sidebar now shows lessons that are not inside a section.
  • Shortcodes in lesson content and course descriptions (contact forms, WP Fusion, galleries, or any third-party shortcode) now save as the shortcode and render on the front end. They previously corrupted the saved content and could show raw data on the page. The shortcode stays visible as a shortcode in the editor and renders only in the view, exactly like a WordPress post.
  • Removed orphaned enrollment, progress and commission rows left by earlier deletes, and routed demo-data teardown through the full delete cascade.

Security

  • The incoming enrollment webhook now requires a valid HMAC signature. It grants paid access, so an unsigned or unverifiable request is rejected instead of processed.

Dev

  • New extension points: learnomy_closed_cta, learnomy_incoming_webhook_payload, learnomy_bulk_enroll_max, learnomy_section_navigation, learnomy_lesson_content_types, learnomy_provision_role, plus single-source Course pricing constants and question-type/stem seams.
  • cmi5 support is planned with a code-verified implementation plan and will land in a later release.

Compat

  • Aligned with Learnomy Pro 1.4.0. Install both updates together.

v1.3.0

June 1, 2026
New 3 Improve 2 Security 1 Dev 1

New

  • Uniform embeds. The lesson Embed type, embeds inside lesson and course content, and migrated content all render through one WordPress oEmbed pipeline as a premium responsive player, with a clean link-card fallback for anything WordPress cannot embed. Covers all built-in oEmbed providers (YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Spotify and ~40 more).
  • Author embed preview now matches the student view in the lesson editor and the front-end course builder, via a new REST endpoint GET /learnomy/v1/oembed-preview.
  • Translation ready. Every front-end string is translatable, and the plugin ships AI-assisted translations for 12 locales (German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese).

Improve

  • Classic-layout quizzes now reliably record short-answer, fill-in-the-blank and essay responses.
  • The lesson progress bar is calculated live from completed lessons so it always matches the X of N count.

Security

  • Embeds resolve only through WordPress's built-in oEmbed provider list, closing a server-side request risk on the author preview endpoint.

Dev

  • New filters learnomy_embed_html and learnomy_embed_oembed_args, and a new Learnomy\Content\Embed engine. Front-end account, registration and progress scripts are now i18n-wired.

v1.2.1

June 1, 2026
New 1 Fix 1

New

  • Course visibility is now a three-way choice - Public, Unlisted (hidden from the catalog but open to anyone with the direct link), or Private (enrolled students and admins only) - replacing the single Private hide-from-catalog checkbox so a course can be shared by link without being public.

Fix

  • Restored the Payment Provider Mapping fields on the membership plan editor (Stripe Test/Live Price ID, PayPal Sandbox/Live Plan ID) so plans can be mapped to provider price IDs again.

v1.2.0

June 1, 2026
New 6 Improve 2 Fix 3 Dev 4 Compat 1

New

  • Import courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions from LearnDash, Tutor LMS, and LifterLMS through a guided wizard, with an optional people tier that brings across enrollments and progress.
  • Migrations run in resumable background batches with a dry-run preview, and state up front which data is not migrated (certificates, grades, and payments).
  • Build custom account fields for registration and the account profile from a no-code builder, managed entirely by the site owner.
  • Set per-lesson access requirements through a filterable access gate, including lessons embedded outside the course player.
  • Sections are now optional in the course builder, so lessons and quizzes can sit directly under a course.
  • Reassign a course's lead author and add co-instructors from the course editor.

Improve

  • Instructor roster data can now be anonymized through dedicated privacy hooks for export and erasure requests.
  • Promoted the Abilities API from a single modules-table row to a linked, first-class integrations doc.

Fix

  • Removed per-row queries in the instructor Q&A inbox, students-at-risk, and recent-transactions widgets so large dashboards load in a constant query count.
  • The grading detail screen no longer fatals on a malformed format string, and editing a lesson no longer mangles its media IDs.
  • Corrected a malformed placeholder in the revenue-trend widget that could fatal on PHP 8.

Dev

  • Added a wp learnomy migrate WP-CLI command and REST endpoints that drive the import wizard.
  • Added editor-field and integration hook seams so third-party fields round-trip through the course and account editors.
  • Added an AI Agents and Abilities API integration guide covering the 34 AI-discoverable LMS actions across 6 categories.
  • Added a Dutch (nl_NL) translation and regenerated the .pot.

Compat

  • Aligned with Learnomy Pro 1.2.0. Install both updates together.

v1.1.1

June 1, 2026
Improve 1 Fix 9 Dev 1 Compat 1

Improve

  • Reworded user-facing strings to plain English across admin and front-end (replaced stylistic dashes with natural punctuation).

Fix

  • Deleting a course category that still has courses now moves them to Uncategorized and removes the category, instead of appearing to do nothing; the confirm explains the move and the result reports how many courses moved.
  • Checkout could subscribe a member to the same membership plan twice and double-bill; a second active subscription to the same plan is now rejected, and a different plan is directed to billing to change plans.
  • All 12 Gutenberg blocks now load their styles on any page, not only on Learnomy routes; they previously rendered unstyled elsewhere.
  • The membership pricing block now ships its own styles and shows the currency symbol on the amount.
  • The become-an-instructor page now sends anonymous visitors to the public registration form instead of bouncing them to wp-login and losing the applicant.
  • An unknown course URL now renders the theme 404 page and title instead of a "Course" title on a not-found body.
  • Course and catalog grids no longer leave blank trailing columns when there are fewer cards than columns.
  • The PWA manifest is now served dynamically with valid icons and a non-redirecting start URL, fixing manifest and icon 404s.
  • Documentation and marketing copy corrected against the shipped product: REST auth endpoint (/auth/token) and endpoint count (166), the five Pro quiz question types, the Pro module count (15), lesson content types, settings navigation, and analytics docs.

Dev

  • Full translation readiness: regenerated the .pot, added translator comments to every placeholder string, and registered front-end script strings (modals, course builder, quiz editor, toasts) for translation. The WordPress.WP.I18n check is clean.

Compat

  • Aligned with Learnomy Pro 1.1.1. Install both updates together.

v1.1.0

June 1, 2026
New 2 Fix 3 Compat 1

New

  • Action Scheduler is now bundled, so recurring jobs (membership renewals, reminders, dunning, webhook delivery, large broadcasts) run on a standalone install with no WooCommerce required.
  • BuddyX and BuddyX Pro theme bridge: Learnomy adopts the theme palette and follows its dark mode automatically.

Fix

  • Bearer token authentication now works for REST and mobile clients; tokens were issued but never read, returning 401.
  • The certificate designer pre-loads the Classic template when creating a new certificate instead of opening to a blank canvas.
  • Cancelling a membership now unenrolls the member from the courses that membership granted, even on enrollments created without a stored plan id.

Compat

  • Aligned with Learnomy Pro 1.1.0. Install both updates together.

v1.0.0

Note 19

Note

  • Initial release.
  • 37 custom MySQL tables: courses, quizzes, certificates, memberships, revenue, and more.
  • Course builder with sections, lessons, and topics.
  • 6 quiz question types with auto-grading and manual essay grading.
  • 5 quiz display templates: Focused, Classic, Sectioned, Conversational, Review Board.
  • Certificate generation with UUID verification, QR codes, and Ed25519 signatures.
  • in membership plans with Stripe and PayPal recurring billing.
  • 2-party commission system with instructor payout tracking.
  • Coupon system with percentage and fixed discounts.
  • 145 REST API endpoints under `learnomy/v1` with JWT auth and batch support.
  • 12 Gutenberg blocks, 6 sidebar widgets, 10 shortcodes.
  • 5 WP-CLI top-level commands with sub-commands for inspect, test, and selfcheck.
  • no React, no jQuery, no build step.
  • 34 AI-discoverable LMS actions across 6 categories.
  • FULLTEXT search, JSON-LD schema markup, and XML sitemap.
  • 8 HTML email templates.
  • GDPR data export and erase compliance.
  • Dark mode support.
  • BuddyNext and Jetonomy ecosystem hooks.

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