Works great and has great options

After spending a couple of months studying all of the LMS plugins I could find, and even trying out a couple of them, we settled on LifterLMS and I’m glad we did.

In the 7 months since we got the plugin I have published 17 Courses, some with 40 Lessons or more. They all look great and work great too.

The only problems I had are due mostly to my lack of knowledge of WordPress “posts” and how they work. Like other LMS plugins I tried, LifterLMS uses posts, and also uses many of the WordPress settings and functions.

Some things were a very pleasant surprise. The “Featured Video” that you can include with each course is designed to work with YouTube, Vimeo, etc., but I use a video hosting company named iPlayerHD so I can keep my training videos private. The “share link” for my videos works perfectly with LifterLMS. I just paste it into the Featured Video field and it works.

One feature that makes LifterLMS a lot better choice than other LMS plugins is the smooth Woocommerce integration. All it takes is a couple of clicks to add LifterLMS a list of Courses and Memberships to the Woocommerce “my-account” page.

With Woocommerce we can sell the same downloads we have been selling for more than 15 years along with a new Online Learning Course, all at the same time. Just add one item to your cart and you will receive all 3: Online Learning plus Downloads plus a Membership.

The Membership feature is something I have just started to explore in the last few days and I am fascinated by it. We can have our Alumni Association on the same website with the Courses and Downloads, and provide access to people who complete the qualifying courses. Fabulous!

Something else I just discovered a few days ago is the Voucher feature. Very convenient, now our Silva UltraMind ESP Instructors around the world can use vouchers to give their seminar and webinar graduates free access to our alumni association membership and products on LifterLMS. Vouchers will also be great to have handy when somebody decides not to attend an in-person seminar – or when giving a presentation to a civic club or other group. We can sell vouchers to our Instructors for half price and let them resell them.

Our work looks great on the website front end too. I found some nice images to use with each of the Courses, and I experimented some with the brief Course information that appears on the Courses page.

Then I used a shortcode to add the Courses to the home page. It is perfect! It displays a little smaller than on the Courses page, and that is perfect for the home page.

And… I have a carousel at the top of the home page – my attempt to do what Amazon does – so I added small versions of my Course artwork, and made them clickable.

I’m sure you won’t be surprised when I tell you that our sales picked up, even though we haven’t been doing anything special to promote them.

In summary, after 7 months, I can enthusiastically recommend LifterLMS. The plugin itself has worked as advertised. I don’t recall a single problem that was due to the plugin.

The support team members are outstanding, they have been patient with me when I get confused and frustrated.

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