Companies Using LifterLMS

LifterLMS is the smallest of the three free-core WordPress course plugins on my list, after LearnPress and Tutor LMS, and the most American. Our October 2026 crawl finds LifterLMS on 2,304 live domains, 1,362 of them matched to a company, 10th of 60 in Learning Management (LMS) with 2.39%. Its list leans away from schools and toward organisations training their own staff, contractors and members.

What the count measures

A domain counts when its pages load LifterLMS's stylesheet or its main script from the plugin folder. The signal holds up. In a random sample of 41 live domains, 39 pages loaded and all 39 carried LifterLMS's files. Before computing anything we removed 23 domains with for-sale or gambling titles, 22 of them from two gambling networks. Themes don't drive this count the way they do for LearnPress: Divi led the sample with 7 sites, two of them on the Divi Courses child theme, and LifterLMS's own Sky Pilot and the older LifterLMS LaunchPad ran on 2 each. We also opened the pages of the 50 named companies, and 48 loaded LifterLMS; the other two blocked us.

Sales signal: a LifterLMS site is usually a deliberate plugin choice rather than something a theme brought along, so expect an owner who picked it and can say why.

A slow, steady line

The chart reads 1,747 in June, 2,024 in July, 2,144 in August, 2,266 in September and 2,304 in October. I wouldn't read that as growth. The domains we crawl turn over every month, with dead sites dropping out and new ones coming in, and our detection widens over time. Since tracking began on 16 March 2026, 361 domains have dropped LifterLMS on at least one hostname, and 23 of them still run it on another.

"A third of LifterLMS's best-known users run it on a subdomain set aside for staff, contractors, customers or members. That's a different buyer from the course entrepreneur." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: plan on a pool of about 2,300 domains, not a fast-growing one.

Small, American and training-minded

77.29% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees, against 70.89% for Tutor LMS and 66.23% for LearnPress, and only 3 have more than 1,000 staff. 45.34% were founded in the 2010s. The named companies show how it gets used. 16 of the 50 run it on a subdomain: Norda Stelo on formations.norda.com, Econolite on learn.econolite.com, the National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago on an HSSE contractor portal, Clare Care on a staff policy site. LifterLMS's own customer stories feature WP101, the WordPress training site, and we can confirm it: wp101.com loads LifterLMS in our crawl.

Sales signal: the buyer is often an operations, HR or safety lead with a compliance course to deliver, not a course entrepreneur. Pitch completion tracking and reporting before marketing features.

An English-speaking base

The United States has 467 matched companies, the United Kingdom 118, Canada 68 and Australia 66, which makes 719 in four English-speaking countries. India has 36. LearnPress's profile, by contrast, shows 1,158 American companies and 1,068 Indian ones. Industry follows the same line: Professional Training and Coaching leads at 11.77%, then Business Consulting (7.08%), with non-profits, wellness businesses and e-learning providers each at 4.77%. The four education labels add up to 14.48%, against 28.73% on LearnPress's profile. Continental Europe is thin but present: Germany 41, the Netherlands 40, Spain 35 and France 34, while Finland, with 23, ties Italy. Suomen Digimarkkinointi, for one, sells its Finnish digital-marketing course on opiskelu.digimarkkinointi.fi.

Sales signal: for US-based coaching, consulting and non-profit tools, LifterLMS sites are a tighter list than LearnPress's, Tutor LMS's or LearnDash's.

Little traffic with its rivals

We publish no switching rows for LifterLMS. LearnDash, about eight times its size on 19,118 domains, shares 8 domains with it today out of 16 ever seen with both. Tutor LMS shares 5. The surprise is LearnPress, with 35 shared domains today out of 45 ever, more than LearnDash despite LearnPress's much smaller US base. Most domains ever seen with each pair still run both, so we don't call any of it switching.

"LifterLMS owners don't seem to be leaving for LearnDash or Tutor LMS. The only rival it shares many sites with is LearnPress, and they still run both." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: a migration pitch aimed at LifterLMS users has a small, quiet audience. Selling add-ons to the base they have is the better bet.

Divi and Google tools

Across the 2,311 domains in our clean live set, WordPress is on 99.78%. Elementor builds 43.66% and Divi 14.06%, against 3.01% Divi on LearnPress's profile. Cloudflare fronts 28.95%. Google Analytics runs on 56.43% and Google's Site Kit plugin on 10.51%, and CookieYes (8.18%) and Complianz (6.53%) are the usual consent banners.

Sales signal: Divi add-on and child-theme sellers have a better fit here than on LearnPress or Tutor LMS sites.

What it costs

LifterLMS's pricing page (checked 15 October 2026) lists a free Core Plugin and three annual bundles: Earth at $199 for the first year (normally $398, one site), Universe at $299 (normally $598, five sites) and Infinity at $799 (normally $1,598, unlimited sites). Renewals are at full price. The page says over 10,000 creators use LifterLMS, and its about page describes the company as independently owned.

Sales signal: the second-year renewal doubles the price, which makes month 12 the moment when a rival or a reseller can win the account.

Key takeaways

1. 2,304 live domains, 10th of 60.

2. The smallest companies of the four WordPress course plugins compared here: 77.29% have 10 or fewer staff.

3. US-led, with 467 American companies and 36 Indian ones.

4. Often used for staff, contractor and customer training, not only for selling courses.

5. Divi on 14.06% of sites, several times its rate on LearnPress.

How to use this list

Filter by country and industry, then look for training subdomains to find the internal-training buyers. The list of 2,304 LifterLMS domains with company, size and stack data is on TechnologyChecker.io.