Learnomy
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Introduction to Learnomy

Free & Pro

Learnomy is a WordPress LMS plugin that lets you build and sell online courses directly on your own site, without handing control to a third-party platform. It is designed for creators, educators, and businesses who want a professional academy they own completely.

Overview#

Learnomy lives entirely inside WordPress. Courses, lessons, quizzes, students, and payments are all stored in your own database. No subscription to an external platform is required. The plugin registers top-level admin menus and a set of front-end pages under your site's URL. A companion mobile/web app connects through a built-in REST API.

Who it is for#

Learnomy works for anyone who wants to teach online through their WordPress site:

  • Independent instructors who sell courses and want full control over pricing, branding, and student data.
  • Training teams that need to host internal courses for employees or customers.
  • Membership sites that grant subscribers access to a library of courses.
  • Multi-instructor academies where revenue is split between the platform and individual instructors.
  • B2B / corporate training (with Pro Spaces) that sell seat packs to companies and let a company admin manage their own roster.

The plugin ships two roles out of the box: lrn_student (assigned automatically on registration) and lrn_instructor (admin-approved). Site administrators have full access.

What Free covers#

The Free plugin is a fully working LMS. You can create unlimited courses with sections, lessons, and topics. Students enroll, track their progress, and receive signed completion certificates (drag-drop designer included). Quizzes support six question types (true/false, single choice, multi-select with partial credit, short answer, essay, fill-in-the-blank), two exam layouts (Focused and Classic; Pro adds three more), question banks, and configurable proctoring. Instructors submit applications and manage their own courses. Payments work through Stripe, PayPal, WooCommerce-as-gateway, or the Test gateway - you set a price on any course and checkout is handled on your site. Memberships, coupons, commissions (with request-based withdrawals), reviews, notifications, moderation/block, GDPR export/erase, PWA (beta), migration from other LMS plugins, push (Expo + optional Firebase), 12 blocks, 10 shortcodes, 6 widgets, the Abilities API (54 actions), and the full REST API are included.

For dedicated Pro features, see Enabling Features and Modules.

What Pro adds#

Pro feature. Available in Learnomy Pro.

Learnomy Pro is a companion plugin that installs alongside Free and extends it. It does not replace any Free functionality. A single Pro license unlocks 23 extensions (22 stable; LTI is the one beta). Grouped by job:

B2B / teams#

  • Spaces: sell seat packs to companies, enforce seat limits, owner dashboard, sub-groups with scoped managers, bulk invite/CSV, JSON + CSV reports. This is the corporate seat product (not a community forum).

Content standards#

  • SCORM, xAPI, QTI, H5P, LTI (beta) - import/play packages, emit learning records, import assessments, embed H5P, act as an LTI 1.3 tool provider. SCORM lessons can use Free's Auto: SCORM / standards package completion gate so Mark Complete stays locked until the package reports complete.

Assessment+#

  • Advanced Quizzes: matching, ordering, numeric, math, and calculated questions, plus pools and rubrics.
  • Assignments: text, file upload, and reference links, with instructor grading and assignment reporting in analytics.
  • Gradebook: weighted per-course grade from quizzes, assignments, and SCORM; manual override with reason; learner /account/grades/; CSV export.

Curriculum ops#

  • Content Drip: release lessons by fixed date, days after enrollment, or prior lesson.
  • Learning Paths: ordered multi-course sequences with gating and path certificates.
  • Cohorts: time-boxed group enrollments with lifecycle emails and instructor reports.

Money and reporting#

  • Membership Pro: proration, pause/resume, dunning, gift codes, MRR/churn/LTV analytics.
  • Stripe Connect: automatic instructor payouts after KYC.
  • Analytics: revenue, engagement, assignment stats, and exports.

Author / brand#

  • Frontend Builder: Editor.js course authoring on the front end (stable).
  • AI Authoring: draft curricula and questions (off by default; metered).
  • White Label: rebrand admin, emails, and surfaces.
  • Certificates Pro: Open Badges 3.0, Credly push, tamper-evident hash registry. (The certificate designer and library ship in Free.)

Engage / glue#

  • Notes and Bookmarks, User Journey (skills, milestones, learner timeline - not drip), Webhooks Pro (148 events), WP Fusion.

Each Pro module appears on the Modules page with a PRO badge. Activating a Pro module requires Learnomy Pro to be installed and the module toggled on.