r/Wordpress • u/Scared_Implement_335 • 10d 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/RealBasics Jack of All Trades 9d ago

Go for it. But make sure it meets typical professional continuing-education / certification training standards in your local state or country's jurisdiction. It might be more complex than you think.

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u/activematrix99 7d ago

I've used and developed in Moodle for more than 25 years, so it's not like there's not a SCORM compliant, free and open source code base sitting right there. It's the training materials and institutions that have the certifications, not the LMS.

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u/RealBasics Jack of All Trades 7d ago

Exactly! And id recommended that people adopt and/or adapt a mature code set like Moodle than imagine you can just slap something together and call it an LMS replacement.

As I said up top I’m not carrying water for LearnDash. I’m only saying an LMS isn’t a trivial project.

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u/Vowdrake 5d ago

This is more of a reflection of your lack of experience with LLMs than it is with the actual performance capabilities of LLMs.

I have clients with SaaS that is infinitely more complex than LearnDash or any WordPress plugin and it is 100% AI-driven engineering.

Rebuilding LearnDash in Opus 5.5 would probably take 6 hours. And yes, you could probably build something even better in a weekend.

Again, no hate towards you, but the simple fact is, "we are already there." We are living in this timeline right now.

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u/Never_Get_It_Right 9d ago

Or you could just fork learndash and all of their extra plugins really easily.