About WishList LMS
WishList LMS is a powerful learning management system built specifically for WordPress that gives you everything you need to create, sell, and run your online course business from your own website.
Design structured courses, manage memberships, control exactly who sees your content, and deliver a polished learning experience under your own brand.
Instead of sending students to someone else’s platform, WishList LMS lets you build a fully branded course platform you own—complete with the tools to grow it into a thriving learning business.
WishList LMS is designed for course creators, coaches, educators, and membership site owners who want full control over their content, audience, and revenue — without relying on a third-party platform.
Whether you’re a solo creator launching your first course or an established business running a full-scale training program, WishList LMS gives you the foundation to build it your way, on your own WordPress site.
WishList LMS is built for people who have a course idea—and want the freedom to build it their way.
Start with a single course or design something bigger: certification programs, coaching platforms, private learning communities, onboarding portals, employee training hubs, or growing libraries of lessons and resources.
Whatever you have in mind, WishList LMS gives you the tools to structure programs, organize learning paths, manage access, and deliver a learning experience that works exactly the way you want it to.
WishList LMS supports a wide range of knowledge-based businesses — from individual coaches and educators selling standalone courses, to membership site owners running tiered access programs, to organizations delivering employee training or certification programs.
If your business is built around teaching, coaching, or gating content, WishList LMS is built for you.
Platform and Compatibility
Yes. WishList LMS is a plugin that installs directly on your WordPress site, giving you full ownership of your platform, your students, and your content. Nothing lives on a third-party server — it’s all yours.
In most cases, yes. WishList LMS is built to work within standard WordPress themes, so it fits into your existing design. That way you can keep the look and feel your audience already knows while adding structured course and membership functionality on top.
And if you want a head start on building out your course site, WishList LMS includes LaunchPad™ — a built-in page builder that automatically generates your key pages (think: course listings, checkout, student dashboard, and more) matched to your existing colors and branding. It’s the fastest way to go from plugin install to a fully structured, on-brand course site.
Yes. WishList LMS is designed to cover the full course business workflow — from building and delivering content, to protecting it, to selling it, to managing your students — so you’re not piecing together multiple disconnected tools just to operate.
Yes. WishList LMS is built to work within the broader WordPress ecosystem and connects with tools across email marketing, payments, automation, and page building.
That includes email platforms like ActiveCampaign and Mailchimp, payment processors like Stripe and PayPal, and popular page builders — so your existing tech stack doesn’t have to change.
And because it runs on WordPress, the ecosystem of compatible tools goes well beyond that. You can browse the full list of built-in WishList LMS integrations here.
Not at all! WishList LMS was built for creators and educators who want to launch a course platform without turning setup into a development project.
A built-in Setup Wizard helps you configure the essentials, the drag-and-drop course builder makes structuring your curriculum feel intuitive, and LaunchPad page styling tools automatically design key pages like your course library, login page, and student dashboard.
Instead of wrestling with tech, you can focus on building your course business and getting students enrolled.
Course and Membership Capabilities
You can build structured courses, gated content libraries, membership programs, coaching experiences, and more—all organized in a way that’s easy for your audience to navigate.
Yes. You can provide a mix of free and paid access — ideal for lead generation, course previews, onboarding sequences, and tiered membership offerings.
Yes—which completely changes what your course platform can become!
Build out the LMS platform you’ve been planning: courses, training programs, certification paths, client coaching, and all the learning experiences you want to create.
Then use WishList LMS’s built-in membership tools to expand that platform into a subscription-based environment your students can join, stay connected to your teachings, and continue growing with your content.
Rather than simply delivering lessons, WishList LMS helps you create a platform where education continues, your content keeps growing, and your programs evolve into a recurring revenue engine—all built and running from your own WordPress website.
Selling and Monetization
WishList LMS doesn’t just help you build courses—it gives you the tools to sell them, too.
By connecting with trusted payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal, you can accept payments securely while your connected platforms handle the important details: processing transactions, generating receipts, maintaining payment records, and managing the security behind every purchase.
WishList LMS connects with Stripe, Square, and PayPal so students can check out through payment platforms they already know and trust.
You can additionally offer one-time purchases, recurring subscriptions, or bundled pricing — and add order bumps and upsell offers inside the checkout flow to increase order value.
Yes. You can offer recurring subscriptions, one-time course purchases, or a combination of both — giving you flexibility to match your pricing model to how you actually want to sell.
Yes. WishList LMS includes built-in coupon tools so you can run flash sales, launch promotions, and reward returning students whenever you want.
Yes. WishList LMS supports selling to customers worldwide. Your reach depends on your payment processor setup, but both Stripe and PayPal support transactions across most countries.
Student Experience
Students get a clean, structured learning environment where they can access their courses, move through lessons in order, track their progress, and submit assignments — all from a dashboard that only shows what’s available to them based on their access level.
Yes. You can control how content is presented, what students see at each stage, how assessments work, and what recognition students receive when they complete a course — including branded certificates generated automatically upon completion.
Yes. WishList LMS includes visual progress tracking so students can see what they’ve completed, what’s still ahead, and how close they are to finishing — which keeps them motivated and moving through your content.
Educator Admin
WishList LMS gives you a full view of your student activity from the admin side. You can see lesson-by-lesson progress for every enrolled student, monitor who’s actively moving through your content and who’s gone quiet, and get automatic notifications when lessons are completed or assignments are submitted — so you’re never in the dark about how your students are doing.
Yes. The built-in gradebook centralizes scores, quiz results, and assignment submissions across your entire course catalog.
Instead of hunting down individual student records, everything is organized in one place — making it easy to review performance, give feedback, and keep track of where each student stands.
Yes. WishList LMS includes a built-in email notification system that keeps your students informed at every stage of their experience — without any third-party tool required.
You can set up automated emails for the moments that matter most: a welcome email when a new member signs up, subscription expiration reminders sent before or after a membership lapses, renewal notifications for upcoming or completed renewals, trial period reminders before a free trial ends, credit card expiration warnings to prevent involuntary churn, and re-engagement emails for users who started the signup process but never finished.
WishList LMS additionally connects with email marketing platforms like ActiveCampaign and Mailchimp so you can trigger automated emails based on student behavior — things like enrollment confirmations, lesson completion follow-ups, re-engagement sequences for students who’ve gone inactive, and milestone celebrations when a course is finished.
Your communication runs in the background without requiring manual effort on your end.
Yes. From the admin dashboard you can manage enrollment, adjust access rules, set content expiration dates, and control exactly what each student or membership tier can see — all without touching individual user accounts one by one.
Pricing and Licensing
WishList LMS offers tiered pricing with plans designed to support different stages of growth — so whether you’re a solo creator just getting started or an established business running a full course catalog, there’s a plan built for where you are right now.
Each tier is structured around your usage and the features you need, giving you room to start lean and expand as your business grows.
Every plan includes access to the core WishList LMS feature set — course building, content protection, student management, payment processing, and more.
Higher-tier plans unlock additional features and capabilities beyond the essentials.
You can review exactly what’s included at each level on the WishList LMS pricing page to find the right fit before you commit.
Yes. WishList LMS offers a 14-day refund policy so you can get started with confidence and put the platform to the test without risk.
Check the WishList LMS pricing page for the current refund terms and any conditions that apply.
Support and Ongoing Use
WishList LMS gives you multiple ways to get help when you need it. You’ll have access to a dedicated support team, a thorough documentation library, and step-by-step guides covering everything from initial setup to advanced feature configuration.
Whether you’re troubleshooting something specific or just trying to figure out the best way to set something up, you’re not left to figure it out on your own.
View all WishList LMS support options here.
Yes. WishList LMS comes with a full library of setup documentation, feature-specific guides, and onboarding resources designed to help you get from install to live course site as smoothly as possible.
And for the structural side of getting started, LaunchPad™ automatically builds out your key pages — course listings, checkout, student dashboard, and more — so you’re not starting from a blank slate on day one.
Explore the full WishList LMS Knowledge Base here.
WishList LMS is actively maintained by a dedicated development team. That means regular updates focused on performance improvements, WordPress and plugin compatibility, and new features based on how real course creators are actually using the platform.