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

1.4.14 – 07/31/2026

• Fix classroom curriculum scripts loading when the “WP Footer Hook” setting was off
• Update bundled developer tooling

1.4.12 – 07/09/2026

• Add full Site Editor (block theme) template support for courses
• Fix Downloads picker: faster search, no more stale or duplicate results, clearer errors and loading spinner
• Fix certificate expiry setting wiping students' in-progress course progress
• Fix admin list-table search when filtering by certain columns
• Restrict course REST endpoints to users who can edit pages
• Add-ons now install through the standard MemberPress update service
• Fix drip-bypass filter so it receives the lesson ID
• Fix PHP 8 warning on drip-protected content
• Fix “Filter by date” alignment in the media upload popup on WordPress 7.0
• WordPress 7.1 / React 19 readiness

1.4.11 – 05/18/2026

• Fix several PHP warnings