Training – Courses
by rudrainn · Education
Also makes 1 other plugin · 20+ installs across the portfolio →
This Training Plugin can be used to easily create courses online. Each course curriculum can be made with modules, lessons and exercises.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
C 55/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews · Open vulnerability
Active installs
20+
≈25 estimated
Momentum
+13%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “e learning” for “curriculum”. “e learning” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “curriculum” sits at #23 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
55 health vs 69 average across 280 Education plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 20 of 6.8K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Education plugin keeps 1.0%, across 176 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Education plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 739 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.6.11; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 739 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
44
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 7d
33%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 7d
-0.7
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| online training lms your tag | #20 | #24 | up 1 |
| curriculum | #23 | #24 | 0 |
| e learning your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| online courses your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| training your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
3 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “e learning” for “curriculum”. “e learning” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “curriculum” sits at #23 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 235 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #25,300 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
2.0y ago
latest release · v2.0.1 · 22 Oct 2024
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 22 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 22 Oct 2020
Security history
via Wordfence Intelligence1 open vulnerability affects the current version (2.0.1). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.
- 2024-10-30 CVE-2024-50529 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affects <= 2.0.1 No patch available
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.2
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "This Training Plugin can be used to easily create courses online. Each course curriculum can be made with m..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Stripe, PayPal, Facebook, Twitter.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,352 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "online courses", "Online Training LMS" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-01-22 30+ → 20+ down after 72 days in tier
- 2024-11-11 20+ → 30+ up after 19 days in tier
- 2024-10-23 30+ → 20+ down after 10 days in tier
- 2024-10-13 20+ → 30+ up after 11 days in tier
- 2024-10-02 10+ → 20+ up after 11 days in tier
- 2024-09-21 20+ → 10+ down after 95 days in tier
- 2024-06-18 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2024-06-10 40+ → 30+ down after 347 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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LearnPress – Course Review 20K+ installs · 3.3★ · 1 shared tag B -
LearnPress – Course Wishlist 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag B -
WP Favicon Remover 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning 9K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B -
Design Upgrade for LearnDash 6K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag D -
Masteriyo LMS – LMS Course Builder, Quizzes & Certificates 6K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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