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You may have heard rumors about LearnDash 3.0, a big update coming to WordPress’ most popular LMS plugin. Well, they’re not rumors. It’s true, LearnDash is working on version 3.0.

🎉 May 28, 2019 – LD3 Released 🎉
LearnDash 3.0 is here. Read the official release post, or watch Justin’s video below.

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If you haven’t checked out their new documentation yet, there’s a ton of great info.

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On November 12, LearnDash released version 2.6.0. At the end of the announcement post, they also provided an update on the progress of version 3.0.

  1. It will be released in “early 2019.” We still don’t know if this means January 2019 or March/April, but it should be here before the summer.
  2. Front-end and back-end improvements will be made
  3. LearnDash is working with two talented WordPress companies to help with the 3.0 release: 10up & 3.7 DESIGNS

🙌 Working with 10up

This might not sound like much, but it’s one of the most exciting pieces of news I’ve heard from LearnDash in over a year.

10up is probably one of the top 10 WordPress development companies in the world. They employ some of the biggest names in WordPress, like Jake Goldman, Helen Hou-Sandi & Taylor Lovett, to name a few, and have over 100 employees on 3 continents.

  • They donate some of their employee’s time to the open source WordPress project
  • They are one of a very select few to earn WordPress.com VIP partner status
  • They’ve worked with Microsoft, Google, TechCrunch and other high-profile companies
  • 41 of their employees have contributed to WordPress, and they employ 2 of the 18 people in the world who can commit code changes to the official WordPress project

🎨 Working with 3.7 DESIGNS

I don’t know much about these guys, but I’m still very pleased that LearnDash has brought in another partner to help out with the front-end design. 3.7 DESIGNS worked with the University of Michigan on a custom LearnDash implementation, so they know a thing or two about LearnDash.

August 2018

Another user in the LearnDash Facebook group posted his opinion on LearnDash’s current design, and was met with this response from Justin:

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You’ll be happy to know we have brought in a very talented designer who is mocking up new designs for LearnDash 3.0. Justin Ferriman

The overall design of LearnDash is one of its biggest downsides (that’s why I created a plugin to improve it). While I’m happy to see they are making design a priority, I’m a little concerned that they’re still “mocking up” new designs in August. If they haven’t started implementing a new design into the 3.0 codebase, I’m curious how many design changes will be included when the new version is released.

Hopefully this is just semantics and they’re further ahead than I think.

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One final comment by Justin on the same thread, in response to my request for more information about what specifically is changing with the LearnDash design:

We intend to change the way templates are customized (make it easier) but maintain legacy for some time so that custom work done to previous templates isn’t impacted.

May 2018

While we still don’t know what this new feature might be, we do know that they are still actively working on LearnDash 3.0. In a GDPR-related announcement in May 2018, Justin again reiterated:

While we have a few concurrent projects at present, the most important include:

– Preparing LearnDash to be “Gutenberg ready”
– Working on LearnDash 3.0

This simply confirms LearnDash 3.0 is still in development, but unfortunately doesn’t give us any more specifics.

March 2018

Nothing new in terms of features, but Justin chimed in on the LearnDash LMS Tips & Tricks Facebook Group to confirm a 2018 release date. Now slated for “early 2019.”

February 2018

Back on February 14, 2018, LearnDash released 3 new enhancements to it’s LMS platform. In the announcement post, CEO of LearnDash, Justin Ferriman, said:

This is going to be a big year, least of which because we are working on LearnDash 3.0 – but more on that later! Justin Ferriman, LearnDash CEO

Little details were shared about what LearnDash 3.0 will entail, but he wrapped up the announcement with this:

The idea with these updates and the eventual 3.0 release is to refine and polish what we do best, but also will have one particular feature that will make courses on LearnDash stand out from any other course platform out there!

“Refine & polish what we do best” sounds pretty typical for a new version of any software, but he left us guessing as to the one particular feature that will make courses stand out from any other platform out there. Any ideas?

January 2018

A user in the LearnDash LMS Tips & Tricks Facebook group was looking for help with her certificates. Among the responses was one by Justin, CEO of LearnDash, in which he said:

LD 3.0 will have UI improvements for the certificate.

This was the first reference to LearnDash 3.0 in 2018… before LearnDash even teased it on their own blog.


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51 Comments

  1. I’m guessing May 1st as the release date for LD 3.0!

  2. I’m guessing 23rd April for LD 3

  3. I guess the release date for LD3 is 30th May 2019:)

  4. June 12, 2019

  5. May 6th 2019 would be the release date for LD 3.0

  6. Endratno

    31st May

  7. May 24th because I’m away.

    • Just make sure your host is not auto-updating plugins (although I’m not even sure if LearnDash would be included in an auto-update of plugins, since it’s a premium plugin hosted outside of wordpress.org).

      Regardless, it would still be a bummer that you’d have to wait even longer to play with it.

      P.S. Love your avatar 🙌

  8. Jocelyn

    June 1st is my guess!

  9. My guess is June 23, 2019.

  10. Geoffrey

    12th june 2019

  11. M kamala

    22nd May 2019
    Release date

  12. Shani

    June 24, 2019!

  13. Release date: June 3

  14. Miguel Saucedo

    I’d say – May 10th

  15. Ronny

    My guess is 31st May 2019

  16. My guess is 15th May 2019 🙂

  17. My guess is May 7th, 2019 for LearnDash 3.0. Since we have already seen previews I’m guessing it is getting very close, and I think a late week release is generally something to avoid (for support team to avoid working weekends if there is an issue).

    I have really enjoyed using Leandash. I’m new to it since last summer and love how easy it is to create a course plan with all the lessons on just one screen and then just edit the lessons as I create or add the course (depending on if it is awesome PLR content or something I made myself).

    I have not had any shortcomings with LD at all. I am still looking forward to seeing what the new version will be like. If it improves workflow that would be cool, but I’m happy with it the way it is now.

    Innovation is key for ongoing success though so I’m happy there is a new version coming.

  18. Jeremy Hobin

    I think June 5th

  19. Justin Sung

    May 6th

  20. Annie

    May 22 is my guess

  21. MAJID BASTAMI

    I think Justin has hidden 3 eggs somewhere hopefully he didn’t forget where they are 🙂

  22. zohar

    June 2019 for public

  23. Ferry

    I hope it is for the 14th of july. If not before then at this date 🙂

  24. Cyndi

    June 15, 2019

  25. Cathe Cleveland

    June 3rd

  26. Mike

    April 29

  27. My best guess is 30th April 2019 for release of LearnDash 3.0

  28. Rhonda

    6th of May

  29. I’m guessing the Release will be on June 1st 2019
    Waiting anxiously for the release.
    Good luck!

  30. 11th of May, 2019

  31. Gonzalo

    7th of June 2019! hopefully

  32. May 25th, 2019 is my guess!

  33. 21st of June is my guess 🙂

  34. Catherine

    I’m guessing Mother’s Day – 12th May (Canada)

  35. nwo

    May 14th, 2019

  36. May the force… 😀 eeeerrrr May 4th, 2019

  37. Joana

    May 20th, 2019 🙂

  38. My guess for LD3 release date is May 30th

  39. 31 May 2019

  40. Andri Firmansyah

    My guess for LD3 release date on June 1st 2019

  41. My guess is June 3 2019 😎

  42. I am guessing May 27th for the release date.