--- title: "RootWright LMS — The safest WordPress LMS plugin" description: "RootWright LMS is the safest WordPress LMS plugin: dedicated tables for student data, a secure student app, and spaced recall that keeps lessons fresh." canonical: "https://rootwrightlms.com/" last_modified: "2026-10-19T16:17:23+00:00" --- [**Private beta** · Round 1 is open](https://rootwrightlms.com/beta/) # We built a WordPress LMS the slow way. Now we need fifty people to break it. Fifty testers get every Pro feature free during the beta, and a founding deal afterwards. Built by Rafi Ahmed, who led development of Fluent Support and contributed to WordPress 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1. The free core has passed WordPress.org review. Now it needs real courses. [Apply for a seat](https://rootwrightlms.com/#apply) [See what’s in the build](https://rootwrightlms.com/#build) No card. A person reads every application and replies within 24 hours. **Beta pass · Round 1** 50 seats **You get** Every Pro feature free, and Pro for life if you finish **You give** Three check-ins and one course with three students, over 21 days **Runs** 1st Nov 2026 to 15th Nov 2026. Applications close 1st Nov 2026. [Apply for a seat](https://rootwrightlms.com/#apply) Never tied to reviews or ratings. yourschool.com/learn/digital-marketing-basics **Digital marketing basics** 38% complete · 5 of 13 lessons 1 · Getting started What this course covers Know your audience 2 · Social media Your first social post Planning a content week 3 · Email and search Headlines people click Search ads, plainly *DAY 14* Module 1 · Lesson 2 · 9 min Notes Lesson Know your audience **Who is this actually for?** maria@example.com 03:24 / 09:02 Checkpoint · 1 of 2 SAVED **You sell handmade candles. Which detail helps you most?** What your buyers type into search How many followers a rival has Beta build, digital marketing course as the example. Screens can change before launch. [Every feature, one page](https://rootwrightlms.com/features/) - **Passed WordPress.org plugin review** The free core goes up for listing next. - **Built by a WordPress core contributor** Rafi is credited in 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1. - **0% platform fee** You pay only your payment provider. - **Your data stays yours** Student records live in your own database. - **GPL, with a free core** Pro adds the paid-course tools. The beta deal ## What you get, and what we ask in return. Testers get the full product during the beta, and Pro for life on one site if they finish. In return we need real use and honest feedback, on a schedule that fits around a job. Your offer Pro for life Earned lifetime licence - Every Pro feature, free, for the whole beta. - **Finish the beta and you keep Pro for life** on one site. No renewal. - Your name in the launch credits, if you want it there. - Early access to RootWright Community and every plugin after it. **What “finish” means** You sent the setup check-in, the day-10 check-in and the final form, and built one course with at least three enrolments (test accounts count). Lifetime means updates and support for as long as RootWright LMS Pro is sold. If we ever sell RootWright, honouring lifetime licences will be a condition of the sale. One site; you can move it, but not transfer or resell it. Didn’t finish? Your Pro key keeps working until [launch + 30 days], then any plan is [40%] off for as long as you renew. Never tied to reviews or ratings. ### What we ask 1. Days 1–3 Install the ZIP and answer a two-minute setup check-in. 2. Week 1 Build one course you would really teach. 3. Day 10 Midpoint check-in. Five questions. 4. Weeks 2–3 Enrol at least three students (test accounts count), try the Pro features, report what breaks. 5. Day 21 Final feedback form, plus an optional 20-minute call. Plan on about [two hours a week]. If life gets in the way, tell us and we’ll pass your seat to the next person. Round 1 50 seats Closes 15th Nov 2026, or sooner if the seats go. Round 2 opens after we’ve fixed what round 1 finds. ### Never tied to reviews Perks depend on feedback sent to us. Paying for reviews breaks WordPress.org guideline 9, and we wouldn’t want them that way anyway. ### Your data stays put Courses and students live in your database. The beta updates to the release like any plugin update. ### Leave whenever you like Tell us and we pass your seat on. You still get the founding price. Where we started ## We started from three complaints about WordPress LMS plugins. We read through 500+ public reviews of the big WordPress LMS plugins. Three problems kept coming back, so those are the parts we built first. The problem Learner data spread across tables that weren’t built for it, and sites that slow down as enrolments grow. ### Student data gets its own tables. Enrolments, progress, quiz attempts and reviews each get their own table: 35 in the free plugin, 54 with Pro, indexed for the queries an LMS runs. The problem Students land in the WordPress dashboard, or a theme update breaks the lesson page. ### Students get their own app. Lessons run in a separate app that doesn’t depend on your theme. Students never land in the dashboard, and every request checks permissions first. The problem Every request a student makes waits for the whole of WordPress to load first. ### A fast lane for the busiest requests. The requests students make most, like opening a lesson or checking access, are answered before the rest of WordPress loads. What you’ll be testing ## What’s in the build right now. Fourteen reasons to switch, each tagged Free or Pro. Every beta tester gets Pro, so you can try all of them. [See all 208 features](https://rootwrightlms.com/features/) Most LMS plugins measure clicks. RootWright measures memory, and brings each lesson back right before the learner would forget it. **In Free** Built-in spaced repetition (the modern FSRS-6 algorithm), a daily Today session with goals and streaks, and a 0-100 memory strength score for every course. **Pro adds** Confidence ratings, recall tuned to each course, nightly retention reports, reminder emails answered in one click without logging in, and Today offline. yourschool.com/learn/today Today 6 due · about 5 min 3-day streak Card 2 of 6 · Digital marketing basics **What does click-through rate (CTR) measure?** The share of people who saw your ad or link and clicked it. Again10 min Hard2 days Good5 days Easy11 days Due this week Today 6 4 0 7 2 0 5 Reminders go out by email or Telegram on days with reviews due. Learning-science practice is built into the lesson itself, so learners don’t just read along. **In Free** Key concept, Quick check and Pre-question blocks inside any lesson. Misses go into recall, and answers never reach the browser before they should. **Pro adds** Predict-then-reveal, explain-it-back, anonymous peer feedback, questions inside videos, and mixed-module challenges. Checkpoint · Lesson 2 · Know your audience Student view · 1 of 2 **Which of these shows you really know your audience?** You can name what they search for You post every single day You’re on every platform Instructor view · 24 attempts Name what they search for **64%** Post every day **22%** Every platform **14%** Sample data. Every attempt is saved. Learners move through skills, not just a list of lessons, and get a plan that fits their own deadline. **In Free** A skill map with mastery that fades to “needs refresh”, learn-next pins and optional locks until skills are mastered. **Pro adds** Placement tests to skip what a learner already knows, plus study plans across courses that fit each learner’s deadline and minutes a day, rebuilt nightly, with behind-schedule nudges. yourschool.com/learn/skills Skill map Learn next: Email subject lines **Know your audience** MASTERED **Your first social post** NEEDS REFRESH **Email subject lines** LEARN NEXT **Search ads** LOCKED Mastery fades over time, so a skill you have not used comes back as “needs refresh”. Other free LMS plugins give a course one price. RootWright’s free plugin gives it as many as you need. **In Free** One-time, subscription and payment-plan prices on the same course, each with its own sale price, setup fee and access length, pushed to WooCommerce, EDD, SureCart or FluentCart and kept in sync. **Pro adds** The same price options on native Stripe and PayPal checkout, plus bundles, single-lesson sales and recurring coupons. Pricing & access · Digital marketing basics Prices on this course FREE PLUGIN **One-time** $79 ~~$99~~ · lifetime DEFAULT **Monthly** $12 / month · while subscribed ACTIVE **Payment plan** 3 × $29 · then lifetime ACTIVE **Team of 5** $299 + $20 setup · 12 months ACTIVE WooCommerce product options · prices and sale in step IN SYNC Keep the store you already use, or sell with no store plugin at all. **In Free** WooCommerce, EDD, SureCart and FluentCart with two-way sync: products created from the builder, prices, coupons and currency kept in step, and one order list across all stores. **Pro adds** Native Stripe and PayPal checkout with subscriptions, instalment plans, bundles, single-lesson sales, sales tax and EU VAT, refunds and a full transaction ledger with automatic webhook retries. Pricing & access · Digital marketing basics Price **$79** Plan **3 × $29** Access **Lifetime** Sell it through WooCommerce · product created from the builder IN SYNC SureCart · price and coupons kept in step IN SYNC Stripe · native checkout, subscriptions CONNECTED PayPal · subscriptions and refunds OFF Sales tax · EU VAT reverse charge, prices include tax ON Every order, from every store, in one list. Go from a brief to a full draft course while you watch it being written, with your house style and your budget in charge. **In Pro** Three lessons written at once and streamed live, outline check-ins, agent mode, course audit, AI covers and AI marking that waits for a human when unsure. Seven providers including WordPress’s own AI, a reusable skill library, and enforced monthly budgets. AI course builder · Digital marketing basics LIVE Blueprint ready Writing 3 lessons Budget 41% used Lesson 4 · writing **Writing subject lines** Lesson 5 · writing **Building your first list** Lesson 6 · writing **Reading your open rates** Check-in: add a lesson on welcome emails before lesson 6? ADD IT Real exam controls plus practice tests that adapt to each learner. **In Pro** Exams as their own lesson type with booked windows, approval, cooldowns and must-pass gates, plus mock exams drawn per learner and broken down by skill, with weak areas fed back into study. Mock exam · Digital marketing certificate PASSED Score **78%** Pass mark **70%** Drawn for you **40 Qs** By skill **Audience** 92% **Social posts** 81% **Email** WEAK Email: recall brought forward, 2 revisit tasks added to your plan DONE Connect Claude Desktop or any MCP agent straight to your courses. **In Pro** A built-in MCP server and WordPress Abilities registration, with scoped, revocable tokens. Student data is off by default and no AI key is needed. Claude Desktop · connected to yourschool.com 16 tools Scoped token Student data: off ``` # rootwright-lms · MCP · token “course-editor” (revocable) › list_courses Digital marketing basics · 13 lessons › add_lesson course="Digital marketing basics" title="Welcome emails that get read" ✓ Draft lesson added. No AI key needed in WordPress. ``` Built to stay quick on a small server with no Redis. **In Free** The fast lane answers the busiest learner requests before WordPress fully loads. The plugin also uses custom indexed tables, a persistent cache that works without Redis, X-Sendfile / X-Accel file delivery and background jobs. Database · yoursite_db | Table | Holds | | --- | --- | | rootwright_lms_course_data | Courses | | rootwright_lms_course_topic_lesson | Curriculum | | rootwright_lms_course_prerequisites | Gates | | rootwright_lms_course_instructors | Teams | | rootwright_lms_course_products | Stores | | … | 54 in all | **Fast lane** Busy student requests are answered before the rest of WordPress loads. Open a lesson FAST LANE Check access FAST LANE Save video position FAST LANE yourschool.com/learn/today Today 6 due · about 5 min 3-day streak Card 2 of 6 · Digital marketing basics **What does click-through rate (CTR) measure?** The share of people who saw your ad or link and clicked it. Again10 min Hard2 days Good5 days Easy11 days Due this week Today 6 4 0 7 2 0 5 Reminders go out by email or Telegram on days with reviews due. Checkpoint · Lesson 2 · Know your audience Student view · 1 of 2 **Which of these shows you really know your audience?** You can name what they search for You post every single day You’re on every platform Instructor view · 24 attempts Name what they search for **64%** Post every day **22%** Every platform **14%** Sample data. Every attempt is saved. yourschool.com/learn/skills Skill map Learn next: Email subject lines **Know your audience** MASTERED **Your first social post** NEEDS REFRESH **Email subject lines** LEARN NEXT **Search ads** LOCKED Mastery fades over time, so a skill you have not used comes back as “needs refresh”. Pricing & access · Digital marketing basics Prices on this course FREE PLUGIN **One-time** $79 ~~$99~~ · lifetime DEFAULT **Monthly** $12 / month · while subscribed ACTIVE **Payment plan** 3 × $29 · then lifetime ACTIVE **Team of 5** $299 + $20 setup · 12 months ACTIVE WooCommerce product options · prices and sale in step IN SYNC Pricing & access · Digital marketing basics Price **$79** Plan **3 × $29** Access **Lifetime** Sell it through WooCommerce · product created from the builder IN SYNC SureCart · price and coupons kept in step IN SYNC Stripe · native checkout, subscriptions CONNECTED PayPal · subscriptions and refunds OFF Sales tax · EU VAT reverse charge, prices include tax ON Every order, from every store, in one list. AI course builder · Digital marketing basics LIVE Blueprint ready Writing 3 lessons Budget 41% used Lesson 4 · writing **Writing subject lines** Lesson 5 · writing **Building your first list** Lesson 6 · writing **Reading your open rates** Check-in: add a lesson on welcome emails before lesson 6? ADD IT Mock exam · Digital marketing certificate PASSED Score **78%** Pass mark **70%** Drawn for you **40 Qs** By skill **Audience** 92% **Social posts** 81% **Email** WEAK Email: recall brought forward, 2 revisit tasks added to your plan DONE Claude Desktop · connected to yourschool.com 16 tools Scoped token Student data: off ``` # rootwright-lms · MCP · token “course-editor” (revocable) › list_courses Digital marketing basics · 13 lessons › add_lesson course="Digital marketing basics" title="Welcome emails that get read" ✓ Draft lesson added. No AI key needed in WordPress. ``` Database · yoursite_db | Table | Holds | | --- | --- | | rootwright_lms_course_data | Courses | | rootwright_lms_course_topic_lesson | Curriculum | | rootwright_lms_course_prerequisites | Gates | | rootwright_lms_course_instructors | Teams | | rootwright_lms_course_products | Stores | | … | 54 in all | **Fast lane** Busy student requests are answered before the rest of WordPress loads. Open a lesson FAST LANE Check access FAST LANE Save video position FAST LANE ### Also in the build Swipe → ### Also in the build [All 208 features](https://rootwrightlms.com/features/#all) **Control and privacy you can explain** Free Every permission has a reason you can see, and every byte of learner data can be exported or erased. **Certificates people can trust** Free Pro Credentials that can be verified, and designs that never change after they are issued. **Reach learners where they already are** Free Pro Learning nudges that arrive in the inbox and chat apps learners already use. **Found by Google and by AI** Free Courses are ready for search engines and AI assistants without extra setup. **Looks right on any block theme** Free No page builder needed. **Student dashboard app** Free Today, Your courses, Announcements, Achievements, Purchase history, Apply to teach, Settings. **Reusable lesson library** Free Use one lesson in several courses; removing it from a module keeps it in the library. **Drip content** Pro Unlock by date, days after enrolment, in sequence, after a prerequisite, or a mix; per-student overrides and expiry. Counted, not claimed ## Numbers from the code, not from a slide. Every figure here comes from the beta build itself. When the code changes, so do these. 35 database tables in the free plugin. Pro adds 19 more. Code count · 19 Oct 2026 238 REST API endpoints in the free plugin. Pro adds 47. Code audit · 8 Sep 2026 10 quiz question types, all in the free plugin. Code audit · 8 Sep 2026 0% of your course sales taken by RootWright, on every plan. Pricing terms What isn’t finished ## What’s not done yet. You should hear it from us. A beta has rough edges. Here are the ones we already know about, so your time goes into finding new ones. - Community discussions inside courses, right after launch Planned - WhatsApp reminders. Email and Telegram work now. Planned - Importers from other LMS plugins. In progress - Docs, written during the beta In progress - Final prices, before launch. Testers get theirs first. Planned - Full DRM (Widevine or FairPlay). We use encrypted streams and a moving watermark instead. Not planned ### From the build log [All entries](https://rootwrightlms.com/build-log/) - **Private beta opens** Round 1: fifty seats, 21 days. - **Passed WordPress.org plugin review** The final version goes up for listing next. Who’s building it ## Two people you can actually email. [The longer story](https://rootwrightlms.com/about/) > The same story kept coming up about WordPress LMS plugins: student progress scattered across postmeta, sites that got slower with every enrolment, and learners sent into wp-admin to take a lesson. So we started from those parts. Fifty testers is enough to find what we got wrong while it’s still cheap to fix. **Rafi and Reza** ### Rafi Ahmed Founder · Product and engineering Rafi led development of Fluent Support and worked as a software engineer at Awesome Motive and Thrive Themes. He contributed to WordPress core in releases 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1, and built WP Vite, which brings Vite’s build pipeline to plugin development. ### Reza Cofounder· Beta, pricing and partnerships Reza runs the beta programme, pricing and partnerships. If something about the beta doesn’t feel fair, he’s the person to tell. root /ruːt/ noun The part nobody sees that everything leans on. In an LMS: the student data, the access checks, the lesson that has to load on a bad connection. wright /raɪt/ noun A maker. Shipwright, wheelwright, playwright. The people who build the thing and answer for it. RootWright Measure twice. Ship once. Pricing ## Plans after the beta. Testers lock theirs first. Every plan includes every Pro feature. Plans differ only in how many sites you can use them on. Beta testers get the founding deal on top. Founding terms for beta testers Finish the beta and keep Pro for life on one site. Everyone else accepted gets the founding price. - Every Pro feature in every plan - 0% platform fee on every sale - Refund, renewal and lapse terms published before you pay [Plans, policies and pricing questions](https://rootwrightlms.com/pricing/) Questions ## Before you apply. Something we missed? Write to [contact@rootwrightlms.com](mailto:contact@rootwrightlms.com). We’ll answer you within 24 hours. [All beta questions](https://rootwrightlms.com/beta/#faq) **Is RootWright LMS free?** Yes. The free plugin is heading to WordPress.org and includes the course builder, the student app, dedicated tables, lessons with quizzes and checkpoints, spaced recall, the skill map, course reviews, SMTP support and the REST API. Pro adds drip, exams, study plans, AI course building, native checkout with sales tax and EU VAT, and video hosting with a viewer watermark. **Can I use the beta on a live site?** You can, but we’d suggest a staging site or a fresh site for your first course. It’s beta software, so back up first and don’t move your only paying course on day one. **Do I have to leave a review?** No. Your perks depend on feedback you send to us, never on public ratings. Reviews on WordPress.org are entirely your choice. **What happens to my Pro key if I don’t finish?** Your Pro key keeps working until [launch + 30 days]. After that, any plan is yours at the founding price, [40%] off for as long as you renew. **Is the 50-seat limit real?** Yes. About fifty is the most we can support while reading every report and replying properly. When round 1 is full, the form turns into a waitlist for round 2. **What if I’m not picked?** You go on the waitlist for round 2, and you can use the free plugin as soon as it’s on WordPress.org. We delete declined applications after [6 months] unless you ask us to keep you on the list. Apply for round 1 ## Want a seat? Tell us what you teach. The form takes two minutes. A person reads every application, and we reply either way. 1. **Apply** Two minutes. Tell us what you teach and what you use today. 2. **We read it** A person reads every application. You hear back within 24 hours, yes or no. 3. **You install** You get the free ZIP, a Pro licence key and a one-page setup note. 4. **You shape it** Build, break, report. Fixes ship as beta updates, and we tell you which ones came from you. ### Beta application