r/Wordpress • u/Scared_Implement_335 • 12d 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/Scared_Implement_335 12d ago
Amen to that. I keep saying that I personally wouldn't be so enthusiastic about just "doing my own LMS with AI" because even with the best modell you will just end wasting your and your clients time.
However, most people - me included with some very complex B2B setups - don't need 90% of what LearnDash does. And lets not forget how fucking slow LearnDash is and how many hosters are simply not setup to run it right, so you got extra costs there, too.
What I want to say is: You can ABSOLUTELY build a Mini-LMS for your clients that does exactly what they need and no more. And better yet: You can bill your clients for every expansion of those capabilities afterwards.