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BuddyPress for LearnDash

BuddyPress for LearnDash integrates the LearnDash LMS plugin with BuddyPress, so you can add groups, activity, members, and forums to your courses.

By Syed Balkhi·Lms·Free
3.3(18 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years ago
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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….

3.3/518 reviews
2.0K+active installs
97K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

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.

BuddyPress Groups

Easily tie any LearnDash Course to a BuddyPress Group.

  • Course participants automatically get added as members to the group
  • Group becomes private to course participants and invited members
  • Course Lessons become visible at the group
  • Course activity gets streamed into the group feed (optional)
  • Forum gets added to the group (if bbPress is enabled)
  • Course featured image becomes group avatar (if no group avatar has been set)

BuddyPress Activity

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

No Longer Maintainted
by girlinbluemusic·1 year ago·1 reply

It seems like this plugin is no longer maintained – last update was 4 years ago.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.

BuddyBoss is a SCAM: They get my money and RUN!!!
by kriptonson·3 years ago

I hope people help me spread the word, I’m being SCAM by this company and i have all the proof, you can write me if you need to. This people never answer support, part of their refund policy says 21 days and some 14, so after waiting 15 days for a support reply i ask for my 21 days money-back warranty. And they say “sorry for no reply to you for 15 days, but we have a strict refund policy”.

The plugin also offer features who depend on third-party plugins who broke my site, their knowledge base refer to those plugins and even do, they don’t refund. This is a SCAM and everyone should know this.

Good, but not perfect.
by michaelehowe·6 years ago

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.

Activity streams not updating.
by adenclark·7 years ago·2 replies

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.

Does not give what is promised
by MorgunovVit·7 years ago·1 reply

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.

Download Trends

Today: 3Yesterday: 4This week: 22Period total: 1K

Compatibility

WordPress3.8+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.3
88.8%
v1.2
10.4%
v1.1
0.8%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.3.0

  • Fix – Fix fatal error when group component is not activated
  • Fix – Some code improvements
  • Tweak – Added check for Activity component
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
1.3.0
Last Updated
Jun 19, 2020
WP Requires
3.8+
Tested Up To
5.4.19
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
97K+
Added
Jun 29, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

lmslearninglearndashbuddypresslearning management system

Developer

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Syed Balkhi
93 plugins23.5M+ total installs
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