BuddyPress for LearnDash integrates the LearnDash LMS plugin with BuddyPress, so you can add groups, activity, members, and forums to your courses.
As of April 2026, BuddyPress for LearnDash is a WordPress lms plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 3.3/5 rating from 18 reviews. It has been downloaded 97K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 27% this week. Top alternative: The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress….
Want your learners to interact with each other? BuddyPress for LearnDash turns your course driven website into a social education platform, creating a seamless bridge between BuddyPress and LearnDash.
Easily tie any LearnDash Course to a BuddyPress Group.
Activity is one of the core features of BuddyPress, allowing users to interact with each other in real-time. When a course is tied to a…
It seems like this plugin is no longer maintained – last update was 4 years ago. Seems to work okay for me except for on a user’s Buddypress profile page. It messes up the Buddypress styles, and the course tab doesn’t work. There are a bunch of links to courses, but there are two of every single one, and it’s just an ugly list. I’d love for it to just use the Learndash profile shortcode [ld_profile] as that looks much better, but I don’t know where to look to edit this in the plugin file. If anyone knows, I’d appreciate it!
Otherwise, 3 stars because yes it works. There are groups for each course, and I have bbpress forums attached to each. But the profile page issues and lack of updated support drop my rating down to 3 stars.
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It’s a shame they have only looked at this from one angle… from users being on Learndash first and wanting to auto create a group / update one Buddypress group.
I really wish this worked the other way – I have buddypress users, in multiple groups and I want to sync buddypress group membership with Learndash groups.
When I add a new lesson, it has stopped updating the activity stream on both the group activity stream and the main activity stream. When I add a new topic and update the course, it just continues to load and states the following:
BuddyPress for Learndash enrolling users to the course buddypress groups. This can take a while if you have many students(members). Do not navigate away from this page until this is done.
The above never completes and just has a loading icon that never ends.
Unfortunately, the integration of the BuddyPress groups with the LearnDash courses is very limited.
This plugin is not able to enroll course group members to the Closed type Course. Those. course group members do not have access to course materials.
It would be better if you sync the Lerndash groups with BuddyPress groups. Then all the great features of LearnDash groups would join the functional of the BuddyPress groups and it would be cool. But now neither LearnDash groups nor BuddyPress groups give the desired result.
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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