WordPress with a real LMS alongside it — from $15,000.
From $15,000 · 10–16 weeks · Training organisations operating LearnDash, LifterLMS, Sensei, or Moodle alongside a public WordPress site.
Practitioner context: Hands-on LMS work across LearnDash, Sensei, LifterLMS, and Moodle. The longest-running engagement is the M.L. Campbell Training Centre — a WordPress + LearnDash learning platform built for a Sherwin-Williams industrial coatings brand; attendance grew tenfold over the life of the engagement, and the total annual cost of the platform came in below what the previous off-the-shelf system used to bill in a single month.
The mid tier of the Learning Websites ladder. Built for training organisations operating a real LMS alongside their public WordPress site — LearnDash, LifterLMS, Sensei, or Moodle integration, multi-instructor cohorts, structured assessment, and the operations layer that makes a training business actually run. This tier fits programmes that have grown past the light-LMS shape of the entry tier but are not yet at institutional post-secondary scale.
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What gets built
- A WordPress + LMS build on the platform that fits the programme — LearnDash, LifterLMS, Sensei, or Moodle integrated alongside WordPress.
- A custom storefront-and-LMS theme that reads to learners, instructors, and administrators — not three off-the-shelf themes glued together.
- Course modelling at training-business scale — courses, modules, lessons, cohorts, prerequisites, certifications, and the relationships between them.
- An enrolment and payment flow appropriate to how the business actually sells: open enrolment, cohort enrolment, employer-funded, sponsor-funded, multi-seat, or all of the above.
- Instructor and learner role design with the capabilities each role actually needs — admin, instructor, TA, learner, observer.
- Assessment and reporting — quizzes, graded assignments, progress dashboards, certificate generation, completion reporting for sponsors and employers.
- Performance and accessibility on the learner-facing templates and the assessment surfaces to WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Migration work from whichever LMS or course host the programme runs on today, with learner data, completion records, and certificate history preserved.
The audit included at this tier
Senior Solution engagements include the $1,000 mid-tier audit by default, credited back against the build. At this tier the audit covers the current programme operations, the LMS choice, the enrolment and payment surface, the assessment shape, and the migration plan — most LMS rebuilds fail when one of those gets under-scoped.
- A programme operations review. Course catalogue, enrolment volume, instructor count, cohort patterns, and the rhythm of how the training business runs today.
- An LMS-fit assessment. Whether LearnDash, LifterLMS, Sensei, Moodle, or a hand-built shape fits the actual programme — with the trade-offs spelled out, not the platform you happen to know first.
- An enrolment-and-payment review. How learners pay, how sponsors pay, how multi-seat enrolment works, where the friction sits today.
- An assessment and reporting review. Quizzes, graded assignments, progress dashboards, certificate generation, completion reporting — what is in place today, what is missing, what the new build has to land.
- A migration scope. Learner data, completion records, certificate history, course content, and the URL continuity that lets the programme not lose history.
- A written 10–15 page report that survives being passed to a programme manager or instructional designer.
If the audit shows the work is past Senior scale — accredited institutional review, multi-faculty governance, SCORM/xAPI conformance at scale, or institutional SSO — the report routes the engagement to Post-Secondary. Audit cost credits forward.
Training included
Training is structured around the people running the LMS — programme administrators, instructors, instructional designers, and the platform owner. Each gets sessions tuned to what they actually do.
- Three to four 90-minute live online seminars across the build phase — programme administration, instructor and content authoring, learner experience and assessment, and the platform-owner hand-off.
- A recorded library of all seminars plus role-specific walkthroughs of the specific course types, assessment flows, and reporting dashboards built for the programme.
- A written operator reference structured by role, covering programme administration, course authoring, learner enrolment management, assessment and grading, reporting, and recovery procedures.
- An admin-handover document covering hosting, DNS, the LMS configuration, plugin governance, and the annual-audit checklist.
- 90 days of email Q&A access post-launch on anything related to the build, no per-ticket limit.
For training organisations within a 3-hour drive of the Niagara region, a full-day in-person workshop is included at no additional travel cost — useful for the administrator and instructor sessions in particular. Anywhere further in North America, in-person is available with travel quoted separately and absorbed into the engagement for builds at the upper end of this tier.
WordPress training classes delivered as part of this package
The training surface above is built around the WordPress training catalogue. The specific classes delivered as part of this engagement:
- WordPress Training 101 — delivered to programme administrators and content authors.
- WordPress Training 201 — tuned for course-page content, learner-facing copy, and assessment-context writing.
- Bespoke workshop on top of the catalogue. A LearnDash, LifterLMS, Sensei, or Moodle administration workshop covering enrolment management, cohort administration, assessment, and reporting — specific to the LMS built for your programme.
Each course in the WordPress training catalogue has its own public-cohort schedule and pricing if your team wants the catalogue cohort outside an engagement. Within an engagement the delivery is tailored to your specific build — same curriculum, your context, your dashboard.
Starting smaller is never a mistake
Who this is for
- ✅ Training organisation running LearnDash, LifterLMS, Sensei, or Moodle — or ready to commit to one for the next build.
- ✅ Multi-instructor or multi-cohort delivery, not a single-instructor model.
- ✅ Real assessment and certification — not just “watched the video” tracking.
- ✅ A public site and an LMS that share a brand, an audience, and ideally an authentication layer.
- ❌ K–12 school or small training organisation with light course delivery — that is Junior Learner.
- ❌ Accredited post-secondary institution with curriculum review and institutional SSO — that is Post-Secondary.
- ❌ A blog or marketing site without real course delivery — Owner-Run Sites fits better.
Hands-on LMS work the engagements above grew from
The M.L. Campbell Training Centre is the longest-running engagement on the LMS side — LearnDash with extensive customisations, built for a Sherwin-Williams industrial coatings brand. Attendance grew tenfold over the life of the platform; the total annual cost came in below what the previous off-the-shelf system used to bill in a single month. The customisations are still in place, the platform is still growing, and the cost ratio still holds.
Beyond M.L. Campbell, hands-on work has covered LifterLMS for training-business builds, Sensei for content-organisation use cases, and Moodle integrations where the institutional context already had a Moodle install. The conversation about which LMS fits is honest because there is real production experience with all of them — not vendor preference dressed up as expertise.
Considering a different Learning tier?
K–12 school or smaller training programme with light course delivery? Junior Learner at $5,000+. Accredited post-secondary institution with curriculum review and institutional SSO? Post-Secondary at $30,000+. Different shape entirely? All services.
