Jacob Swartz

Xtreme Courses is a complete learning management system (LMS) plugin for WordPress. Build structured online courses in a React drag-and-drop builder, sell them through WooCommerce, schedule drip content, run auto-graded quizzes, issue verifiable PDF certificates, and keep students engaged with XP, badges, and leaderboards — all from your own WordPress site.
No upsells. No locked features. There is no “Pro” version of Xtreme Courses — every feature listed on this page ships in the free download and is fully functional out of the box. No upgrade nags, no feature gates, no artificial limits on courses, students, or enrollments.
<a href="https://xtremeplugins.com/plugins/xtreme-courses/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin homepage</a> · <a href="https://xtremeplugins.com/docs/xtreme-courses" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> · <a href="https://xtremeplugins.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a>
<h4>Why Xtreme Courses?</h4>
If you’ve evaluated the established LMS plugins (LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, LearnPress, Sensei) you already know the pattern: the features you actually need to run a paid course business — certificates, drip scheduling, quizzes, e-commerce checkout, reporting — are spread across paid tiers and per-feature add-ons. Xtreme Courses is built differently:
<ul>
<li>The whole stack is free. Course builder, WooCommerce selling, drip content, quiz engine, PDF certificates, gamification, live lessons, reviews, analytics — nothing is held back for a paid tier.</li>
<li>Commerce-ready from day one. Native WooCommerce integration: one-time purchases, free enrollments, subscription-gated content, bundles, bulk enrollment coupons, and gift enrollment.</li>
<li>Modern WordPress stack. PHP 8.2+ with strict types, a React drag-and-drop course builder, custom REST API, Action Scheduler background jobs, and full uninstall cleanup.</li>
<li>Self-hosted and private by default. No telemetry, no external service calls unless you explicitly configure live Zoom lessons (disclosed below). Your course content and student data stay on your server.</li>
<li>WordPress.org-compliant. Fully GPL, no obfuscated code, every external-service touchpoint disclosed on this page.</li>
</ul>
A free alternative to LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, LearnPress, and Sensei for course creators who want the complete LMS feature set without per-feature pricing.
Core Features (Free):
<ul>
<li>React Drag-and-Drop Course Builder — Build structured courses with sections, lessons (video, text, PDF, audio), and quizzes using a visual drag-and-drop interface.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Integration — Sell courses as one-time purchases, free enrollments, or subscription-gated content. Supports bulk enrollment coupons and gift enrollment.</li>
<li>Drip Content Scheduling — Release lessons on a fixed date, X days after enrollment, or after completing the previous lesson. Visual Gantt-style drip timeline.</li>
<li>Quiz Engine — Multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank questions with timed mode, pass thresholds, retake limits, and auto-grading.</li>
<li>PDF Certificate Generator — Auto-generate personalized certificates on course completion with a public verification URL.</li>
<li>Student Dashboard — Tabbed dashboard showing enrolled courses, progress rings, certificates, achievements, and order history.</li>
<li>Instructor Role & Dashboard — Dedicated <code>xc_instructor</code> role with scoped access to own courses, student roster, and earnings.</li>
<li>Gamification — XP points, badges with trigger conditions, and a leaderboard Gutenberg block/shortcode.</li>
<li>Live Lessons — Zoom SDK embed and Google Meet pre-join cards with calendar reminder emails (.ics attachment).</li>
<li>Analytics Dashboard — Chart.js-powered admin panel with enrollment trends, lesson funnel, quiz performance, revenue, active students, and certificate issuance rate.</li>
<li>Course Reviews & Ratings — Star ratings and written reviews with moderation, instructor replies, and aggregate display.</li>
<li>Course Bundles & Prerequisites — Bundle multiple courses into a single WooCommerce product and enforce prerequisite completion.</li>
<li>Mobile Lesson Player — Distraction-free, full-viewport lesson player with progress persistence.</li>
</ul>
Technical Highlights:
<ul>
<li>PHP 8.2+ with strict types</li>
<li>Custom REST API namespace <code>/xtreme-courses/v1/</code></li>
<li>Custom database tables with proper indexes</li>
<li>Action Scheduler for all background jobs</li>
<li>Transient-based caching for leaderboard and progress queries</li>
<li>Full nonce verification on all AJAX/REST write endpoints</li>
<li>Input sanitization and output escaping throughout</li>
<li>Complete uninstall routine (tables, options, uploaded files)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Bundled libraries</h3>
This plugin bundles Chart.js v4.5.1 (MIT, Copyright 2014-2025 Chart.js Contributors) for the Analytics admin panel. The script is served from the plugin folder at <code>assets/js/vendor/chart.umd.min.js</code> — no third-party CDN is contacted.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin can connect to one third-party service. It is opt-in — it is only contacted when an admin or instructor explicitly creates a live lesson and a student attends it. The default install of the plugin does not contact any external service.
<h4>Zoom Meeting SDK (optional, used for live lessons)</h4>
If an admin or instructor creates a live lesson and pastes a Zoom meeting URL into the lesson, then when a student opens that lesson the plugin will:
<ul>
<li>Render an embedded Zoom client by enqueueing the Zoom Meeting SDK JavaScript directly from <code>https://source.zoom.us/zoom-meeting-3.1.2.min.js</code> on that lesson page only.</li>
<li>The Zoom SDK then connects to Zoom’s own infrastructure to join the meeting. The plugin itself does not send any data to Zoom from your server — all communication happens between the student’s browser and Zoom.</li>
</ul>
If you do not use the live-lesson feature (no live lesson with a Zoom URL is ever created), the Zoom SDK is never loaded and Zoom is never contacted.
Service provider: Zoom Communications, Inc. <a href="https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> · <a href="https://explore.zoom.us/en/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Statement</a>
<h3>License</h3>
Xtreme Courses is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Xtreme Courses is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Xtreme Courses. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.

Xtreme Courses


great plugin to creat your own courses online with quizes, thank you!


Best plugin for online course for wordpress

Sell and run online courses on WordPress — LMS with WooCommerce checkout, quizzes, drip content, certificates, gamification. Free, no upsells.

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<a href="http://namaste-lms.org/pro.php" title="Go PRO" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO Modules</a> | <a href="http://namaste-lms.org/theme.php" title="Get the theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Theme</a>
Namaste! LMS is a learning management system for WordPress. Supports unlimited number of courses, lessons, assignments, students etc. You can create various rules for course and lesson access and completeness based on assignment completion, test results, or manual admin approval.
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Namaste! LMS lets you assign different user roles to work with the LMS and other roles who will manage it.
Students can earn certificates upon completing courses.
Grade and Point systems let you mark the students performance.
For quick tour and more detailed help go to <a href="http://namaste-lms.org" rel="nofollow ugc">namaste-lms.org</a>.
Full documentation and demo is available on <a href="http://demo.namaste-lms.org" rel="nofollow ugc">demo.namaste-lms.org</a>.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Manage unlimited courses and enroll students or let them enroll themselves.</li>
<li>Free and paid courses</li>
<li>Manage unlimited number of lessons in each course.</li>
<li>Optionally use modules to organize lessons in courses.</li>
<li>Create certificates that will be assigned to students for completing course(s)</li>
<li>Create assignments and approve or reject student’s solutions.</li>
<li>Manage a gradebook.</li>
<li>Connect to exams created with plugins like Watu or WatuPRO.</li>
<li>Manage students in each course and see their to-do lists for every lesson.</li>
<li>Auto-approve or manually review students who want to enroll in a course.</li>
<li>Define which lessons should be completed to complete a course. Some lessons can be optional.</li>
<li>[PRO] Create groups / classes and limit access to courses based on them.</li>
<li>[PRO] Assign teachers to the classes to have your team members manage content.</li>
<li>[PRO] Delayed access to course material.</li>
<li>[PRO] Award badges for completing courses and earning points.</li>
<li>[PRO] Reorder courses and classes.</li>
<li>[PRO] Manage protected files.</li>
<li>[PRO] Create discount coupons for paid courses and classes.</li>
<li>[PRO] Enable shopping cart for premium course / class signups.</li>
<li>[PRO] Boost your revenue by selling bundles of courses.</li>
</ul>
Namaste! LMS is a developer-friendly extendible plugin. A list of WordPress action hooks and filters can be found <a href="https://namaste-lms.org/developers.php" title="Namaste! LMS hooks and actions" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
<h4>Integrations</h4>
The plugin is integrated with:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/watu/" title="Watu" rel="ugc">Watu</a> / <a href="https://calendarscripts.info/watupro" title="WatuPRO" rel="nofollow ugc">WatuPRO</a>, and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/chained-quiz/" rel="ugc">Chained Quiz</a> for handling quizzes, tests and exams.
<a href="https://moolamojo.com" title="MoolaMojo" rel="nofollow ugc">MoolaMojo</a> for transferring points from the points system as virtual credits and selling courses for virtual credits.
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/" title="WooCommerce" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a> for selling access for paid courses via <a href="http://blog.calendarscripts.info/namaste-lms-bridge-for-woocommerce/" title="Namaste! LMS bridge for WooCommerce" rel="nofollow ugc">this bridge</a>
<a href="https://mycred.me/" title="MyCRED" rel="nofollow ugc">myCRED</a> for transferring points and badges via <a href="http://blog.calendarscripts.info/namaste-lms-bridge-to-mycred/" title="Namaste! LMS Bridge to myCRED" rel="nofollow ugc">this bridge</a>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gamipress/" title="GamiPress" rel="ugc">GamiPress</a> for adding new activity events via <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/namaste-lms-bridge-for-gamipress/" title="Namaste! LMS Bridge to GamiPress" rel="ugc">this bridge</a>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-experience-api/" title="WP xAPI" rel="ugc">WP Experience API</a> to send Tin Can statements to an LRS
Namaste! LMS can send webhooks to Zapier and similar services.
<h4>BuddyPress Integration</h4>
The plugin has basic BuddyPress integration:
<ul>
<li>When user enrolls or get approved to enroll a course they can automatically become a member of a BP group and/or be removed from a BP group.</li>
<li>When student completes a course they can automatically become a member of a selected BP group and/or be removed from a BP group.</li>
</ul>
This way you can easily move members within groups as they start and complete courses.
If you have the <a href="https://namaste-lms.org/connect.php" title="Namaste! Connect" rel="nofollow ugc">Namaste! Connect</a> module you can also tie the activity in Namaste! LMS into the associated enroll group activity in BuddyPress.
<h4>Community Translations</h4>
Newer German translation is available and included in the plugin. It’s provided by <a href="http://www.tobiaseichner.com/" title="Tobias Eichner" rel="nofollow ugc">Tobias Eichner</a>
Thanks to @Peter Baumgartner we have a German translation available <a href="http://peter.baumgartner.name/namaste-deutsche-uebersetzung/" title="German translation" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>
Thanks to <a href="http://klgtu.ru/" rel="nofollow ugc">Kaliningrad State Technical University</a> for providing a Russian translation.

Namaste! LMS

Namaste! LMS is a learning management system for WordPress. Supports unlimited number of courses, lessons, assignments, students etc.

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