Introduction to Learnomy
Introduction to Learnomy
Section titled “Introduction to Learnomy”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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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+
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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.