Chris Badgett - WordPress eLearning Entrepreneur

My life's mission is my company mission... "To lift up others through learning" How it's going... lifterlms.com/about-us/

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We launched LifterLMS in October 2014 with a simple goal: help course creators lift up others through education. For more than 13 years, we've remained committed to that vision. Today, we're opening a major new chapter: LifterLMS 10.0. lifterlms.com/blog/introduci…

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The WordPress plugin business I've spent my career in is shifting. AI is part of why, but a lot of people seem to conflate the decade-long arc of the market maturing with "AI is killing it". I believe that the plugins coming out ahead look very different from the ones that built the WordPress economy. The "golden era" of building a plugin, getting free reach from WordPress dot org, and scaling on the back of tutorials ended sometime in the mid-2010s (looking at you @pippinsplugins). AI didn't kill that strategy. It's been dead for a while because the market already matured. What AI's actually killing are the plugins users bought because they couldn't write the feature themselves. @claudeai can build you a working slider with your exact fields, your exact webhook, your exact compliance requirements in an hour. That's a category of plugin that existed because writing it yourself was harder than paying for it. There are more and more cases where that is no-longer the case. In my experience, the amount of complexity we can absorb in a tailored solution has gone up a lot, and that shifts what tools people are choosing moving forward. A lot of the plugins that are substrates built on-top of WordPress are going to do well in this new era, comparatively speaking. Tools like @WooCommerce, @gravityforms, @lifterlms, or @sirenaffiliates. These aren't features you install to WordPress. They're substrates. AI almost always will benefit from building on top of these solutions instead of reinventing them. My bet is that in this era, solutions that are built to be extended, by developers or AI agents, are the ones that come out ahead. Which, I find to be ironic, considering that's exactly how WordPress became so popular in the first place. For example, A @sirenaffiliates customer came through my support chat wanting a checkout dropdown where the buyer picks a school or club to receive a $5 donation per order. Siren doesn't natively support that. So they installed Siren's free version, loaded Siren's MCP server into Claude Code, and in an hour had a tiny plugin extending Siren to do exactly what they wanted. Pre-AI, that would have taken half a dozen plugins cobbled together. Those plugins that AI plus my plugin just replaced? I believe that those are the ones in hot water. What's your take on this? Which plugin businesses do you think survive this that I didn't name?

WordPress LMS migrations just got a whole lot easier with Claude AI: youtube.com/watch?v=5-i-wb… Anthropic's Claude is exceptional at migration work... We migrated a LearnDash course to LifterLMS with 1 prompt.

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@Shpigford Love seeing creativity flow into helping others this way. Best wishes navigating everything.

my mom was recently diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. that's both an overwhelming diagnosis but also an overwhelming flood of information, documents, appointments, options and questions. i needed a place to keep track of it all and also a place to ask questions, do research and help my parents and family do the same. so, naturally, i built something. keptwell.org if you/you're family is navigating a serious diagnosis and want to use it, let me know (or drop your info in that waitlist box). not charging anything for it at the moment (and with as much AI as i've got layered into this, frankly it's gonna cost me a nice chunk of change to run it). but mostly interested in just making this as useful as possible to families going through long, complex and heavy situations.

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Stop thinking of yourself as someone who sells a product and has to do some marketing. Start thinking of yourself as a media company that happens to monetize through courses, consulting, software, or whatever you sell. That shift changes everything.

And build it on property you own.... Your own WordPress site. Your own email list. Renting space on someone else's platform is dangerous long-term. Prices go up. Platforms shut down. Your media company's core deserves infrastructure you control.

Every company is an education company. Every company is a media company. Most just haven't realized it yet.