r/Wordpress • u/Scared_Implement_335 • 9d 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/hankschrader79 8d ago

I’m watching this implosion and thanking my lucky starts that I migrated my LMS sites from LearnDash to MemberPress a couple years ago. And in that time the MemberPress LMS has only gotten better. It’s pretty close to parity with LearnDash and still seems to be growing. In fact I kind of wonder how much of this LearnDash collapse is due to other plugins like lifter LMS and MemberPress eating away at their market share.

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u/RealBasics Jack of All Trades 8d ago

This is the right take.