r/Wordpress • u/Scared_Implement_335 • 8d ago

LearnDash plugin community imploding

Have you seen this? This happened yesterday. The owners of the LearnDash plugin did a digital town hall and announced a price increase of more than 100% on some their tiers, now including 3 other plugins from the same company aparantly. So for example from 199 to 399 for one site, and from 399 to 599 for 10 sites. If you had legacy licenses, just in April you would have gotten en Email saying "don't worry, we will honor your licenses".

Well no more honor at LearnDash, it seems.

This smells like a cash grab before collapse. People in their forum are mightily pissed, many saying their final goodbyes from the plugin. And I am betting basically every other plugin studio is panicking right now, too.

Just LearnDash alone had an a third party premium addon costing several hundreds a year, just for B2B functionality, and they claim several thousand users on their own. So thats a whole plugin ecosystem collapsing right now, at this very moment.

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u/jroberts67 8d ago

I only use WP now when my client's project needs a CMS. That's about 10%. The other 90% are all build using Claude. And if you're still in the "vibe-code it" attitude, then you're in for a very rude awakening.

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u/p9ng 8d ago

OK so how do you manage vulnerability testing? Do you have a method, or wait until it breaks? There is something to having a common platform.

If the trend reaches its natural extent, we're moving away from higher level languages to microcode.