MemberPress Courses

MemberPress Courses gives you a powerful way to create, protect, and sell online courses directly from your WordPress site. Your lessons, access rules, and payments work together inside MemberPress, so your course setup stays connected as your offerings grow.

Courses is built for creators who want to move quickly without losing control. You can go from idea to published lessons fast, build clear learning paths, and deliver courses that feel organized, professional, and worth paying for—using tools designed for real teaching workflows, not patched-together plugins.

Here are just some of the features included with MemberPress Courses:

• Build structured lessons with a visual, drag-and-drop course builder
• Add quizzes to reinforce learning and validate outcomes
• Track student progress automatically across lessons
• Manage results with a built-in gradebook
• Award resettable, expirable, and shareable completion certificates
• Protect lessons using MemberPress access rules
• Sell courses through memberships or one-time purchases
• Bundle courses with other premium content to increase value
• Keep course content, access, and payments aligned inside MemberPress
• Expand with advanced options as your course business grows

Some Courses features vary by plan. Check out the full comparison chart on our pricing page to see exactly which Course tools are included with Launch, Growth, and Scale.

If your goal is to turn your expertise into paid courses—and keep everything running inside WordPress—MemberPress Courses gives you the tools to build, sell, and scale without unnecessary complexity.

Ready to see what you can build?

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CHANGELOG

1.5.2 – 09/30/2026

• Fixed duplicate lessons being created when pressing Enter in the curriculum “Add Lesson” box.
• Course settings now save even when there’s a problem with the curriculum, with a clear notice if anything fails.
• Fixed lessons disappearing when moved in the curriculum builder while not loaded in the sidebar.
• Failed curriculum saves now undo cleanly instead of leaving courses half-updated.
• Marking a lesson complete now shows an error if progress didn’t save, and completion emails and hooks no longer fire in that case.
• Fixed the certificate share button breaking on block (FSE) themes and some classic lesson pages.
• Section titles with backslashes or quotes now save correctly.
• Fixed a possible “Cannot redeclare” crash when the Lite and full versions load together.
• Certificate PDFs now load images only from your own site and won’t follow redirects (allow other hosts with the mccs_certificate_allowed_remote_hosts filter).
• Added more sanitizing and escaping fixes from the WordPress.org review.
• Saving a course with a big curriculum is now faster.
• Updated bundled third-party libraries and removed the unused Chosen library.
• Now uses WordPress’s built-in clipboard script instead of a bundled copy.
• Added compatibility fixes for newer PHP versions.