WPComplete plus MemberPress is Sweet

I have been trying to build a WordPress online course for going on two years. I have tried about every paid and open source WordPress LMS solution on the market. Each plugin would give me 90% of what I needed. But there was always something missing. There were some things I wanted to do that none of them did.

I am a seasoned WordPresser so I can do some pretty clever stuff with building menus, menu items, and widgets that conditionally appear and disappear. So, I decided to build my course and place lessons on pages. I use a membership plugin (Memberpress) along with a testing plugin to “roll my own” LMS. Now with WPComplete I have it all covered.

This is not the easiest way to build an LMS but I can do some pretty cool stuff now since Mamberpress offers a powerful rules based permissions system. I can take my course and resell it countless times with many different options. I will launch next week with three tiers based on the same course (same lessons sitting on the same pages). I will offer the core course, the same course with a certificate of completion, and the last tier adds advanced support through a Slack channel. You just can’t do that with a typical LMS.

Thanks guys for a simple, yet “just what I needed” plugin.

Grant.