Why You should choose a Wordpress Plugin vs. a Hosted Solution

There are many reasons why we think having a plugin is better than a hosted solution or using a theme (like the Academy Theme).

The Disadvantages of Using a Hosted Solution or a Wordpress Theme

Hosted LMS Solution Disadvantages:

For one a hosted solutions is often times unexpandable, and in some situations you might even lose your content if you stop paying their monthly fee. The largest thing that you will lose is control, with a wordpress solution you own everything, and you are actually building a digital property. Building a web property using Wordpress allows you even sell the who site (like a house), and make the website more valuable as time goes on by adding more content. By adding your content to a hosted solution you are not increasing value, because you actually don’t own the system.

Using a Wordpress Theme vs. a Plugin:

The main disadvantage of using a Wordpress LMS Theme is the you are locked into their style guidelines. Compare this with a plugin, which allows you turn on pieces of the plugin that you need. This keeps things lightweight and fast.

For instance, the Academy Theme using WooCommerce to process payments. However, with our plugin it is all inclusive of this and allows you to process payments with in the plugin - you don’t need anything extra.

With LifterLMS.com you have a core plugin with all of the necessary add-on’s built in. This allows you to turn on what you need and what you don’t need. Keeping bloat to a minimum.