Companies Using LearnDash

For once the category rank means what it says

Most category leaders we publish need a caveat before the number is safe to quote. This one does not. LearnDash sits first in Learning Management (LMS) on 17,956 domains and 20.74% share, and the rows beneath it are all software for putting courses online: Moodle on 13,966, Skolengo on 13,645, ThimPress LearnPress on 13,178, Tutor LMS on 5,476, Teachable on 3,940. No card marks, no wallet buttons, no library that ships inside something else. Six ways to put a course on the web, and the leader is 4.61 points clear.

The growth reads the same way. We recorded 14,389 domains in June 2026, 16,491 in July and 17,956 in August, up 24.79% across the window. I would not call that same-store growth. The domain set we crawl turns over every month, with dead sites dropping out and newly discovered ones coming in, and our detection signals widen over time, so part of that rise is us seeing more rather than the market buying more.

A category leader you can quote without a footnote is rarer than it should be. LearnDash is one of the few.

The WordPress number is the product, not a defect

99.97% of LearnDash domains also run WordPress. In most profiles a figure that close to 100% starts a contamination review, because near-total co-occurrence usually means we are counting one product through another. Not here. LearnDash is distributed as a WordPress plugin, has no standalone build, and the 0.03% showing no WordPress signal is noise in our detection rather than a second platform.

Saying that plainly matters more than it sounds, because it sets the boundary on everything else here. When 73.03% of matched companies employ ten people or fewer, that is a fact about who runs a course site on WordPress. It is not a fact about the LMS market. Anyone sizing corporate learning from this page will get the wrong answer, and I would rather write that down than let the charts imply otherwise.

Read the subdomains

This is where I would spend my time if I were selling into this base. Of the 34 named companies below, 27 serve LearnDash from a dedicated subdomain rather than their main site, and 13 of those subdomains announce the job outright: seven start with academy, four with learn, two with education. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia runs it at open.chop.edu. SickKids runs it at connectedcare.sickkids.ca. Sotera Health uses academy.soterahealth.com, Nordic Semiconductor academy.nordicsemi.com, and Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Education elearn.education.gov.ng.

That pattern says the deployment is departmental. A hospital publishing continuing education on a WordPress subdomain has not made LearnDash its corporate learning system. It has handed one team a publishing tool and left the rest of the estate alone. The same pattern explains a mismatch on this page: only 57 companies in the 10,886-company size distribution employ more than 1,000 people, 0.52% of the base, yet 16 of the 34 names below do. That list is ordered by LinkedIn following, so it surfaces exactly the large organisations where one department bought a plugin.

Two thirds of these sites are shops

Strip out the rows WordPress ships for itself, jQuery on 98.17% and jQuery Migrate on 92.81%, and the highest meaningful overlap on this profile is WooCommerce at 64.38%, or 12,002 domains. Elementor sits on 54.57%, Yoast SEO on 46.28%, Google Analytics on 64.34% and Google Tag Manager on 63.62%. Those are the numbers of a commercial site, not an intranet.

The industry mix agrees. Professional Training and Coaching is the largest vertical at 12.34% and E-Learning Providers second at 9.82%. Take the four education labels together and they come to 2,210 companies, 21.31% of the base. Add training and coaching and a third of everything here, 33.65%, exists to teach. There is no retail, media or manufacturing row anywhere in the top nine. LearnDash is mostly not bought by companies that want to train their staff. It is bought by companies whose product is the course.

A real migration corridor, and it is tiny

We suppress most switching data on this site because the pairs we measure usually turn out to be coexistence: both products still present, nobody having replaced anything. LMS plugins are different. A WordPress site is meant to run one LMS, and two of them fight over the same courses, posts and checkout. Installing a second is not a trial, it is a migration in progress, so a corridor here means what the word implies.

The one we can publish is 13 domains moving from LearnDash to Tutor LMS, four of them in the last 30 days. Of the domains that ever ran both, 25.0% still do, which is the shape of a genuine replacement rather than a stack. Everything else failed the same test and stayed out, including the LearnPress pair at 75% still running both.

Thirteen domains out of 17,956 is 0.07%. It is a corridor and it is not a threat, and publishing both halves of that sentence is the whole point.

Where the base actually sits

The geography is less Anglo than the WordPress plugin stereotype predicts. The United States takes 31.65% of matched companies and the United Kingdom 9.84%, then Australia and Spain tie at 654 companies each (6.17%), both ahead of Canada. Spain and the Netherlands together reach 1,211 companies, more than the United Kingdom on its own. The four large English-speaking markets add to 53.40%, which leaves nearly half the base elsewhere.

The age curve is the other surprise. 46.17% of matched companies were founded in the 2010s and 21.75% in the 2020s, so 67.92% post-date 2010. But 15.18% were founded before 2000, and the list below holds an 1855 hospital, an 1875 hospital and a political party founded in 1900. Compare that with the Recharge profile on TechnologyChecker.io, where 78.59% of companies post-date 2010 and the pre-2000 tail barely exists. Course software reaches institutions that direct-to-consumer software never touches.

What to take from this

Three things. LearnDash leads its category on a fair comparison, which is unusual enough to state without hedging. The lead is built on WordPress and ends where WordPress ends, so treat every distribution here as a WordPress statistic and nothing wider. And the buyer is a small organisation that sells teaching, usually with WooCommerce next to it, occasionally a single department inside a hospital or a semiconductor firm.

Since mid-March 2026 our records show 1,781 domains where the LearnDash signal stopped appearing, about 9.92% of the current count. That is churn observed inside one crawl window, not a lifetime total, and set against 24.79% growth over the same period it does not read as decline. It reads as a plugin market: cheap to install, cheap to walk away from, and with 11,222 of 17,956 domains resolving to a named organisation, unusually easy to identify.