LearnDash Joins Our Liquid Web Family of Brands

As a Liquid Web brand, Nexcess couldn’t be more excited to have LearnDash join our family. Living under our sister brand  StellarWP, LearnDash becomes the newest addition to the one stop shop for every part WordPress. Like Chris Lema says below, “There’s nobody in the net learning space that hasn’t already heard of LearnDash — they’re the strongest WordPress plugin known outside the WordPress community.”  Read on to learn more from Chris in regards to the acquisition, including some personal news in regards to the recent role he’s taking up in our family.  

If you happen to work in technology long enough, one thing holds true greater than the rest. Over time, things get easier and more abstracted for the shopper. Mind you, I’m not saying things are getting easier. Or less complex. 

As a substitute, the remark is solely that as time proceeds, more things are hidden from on a regular basis users. What was complex and take months to construct (like an eCommerce store) are today much easier to construct. And since of that, there’s a bigger market of people that can construct those kinds of websites.

As one in all the premiere managed hosting corporations on the earth, we’ve had direct experience with this dynamic. It’s rare today for somebody to make a hosting decision based only on the CPU of a server, and even how much space for storing a server has available. Abstraction has shifted the conversation away from the low-level details and towards more meaningful differentiation.

Once we first launched our Managed WordPress and Managed WooCommerce hosting plans, we made it clear that we were focused on specific kinds of websites for specific kinds of shoppers. There are numerous great hosting corporations on the market. Several that may host a WordPress business site with none hassle in any respect.

But a lot of those hosting corporations invested significantly in caching layers that will allow those business sites on WordPress to run quickly. It was an excellent strategy ten years ago. And it continues to work for sites that might easily be static.

Our focus hasn’t ever been on those static sites. As a substitute, we’ve focused on eCommerce stores, membership sites, and online learning. Sites where customers had a reason to have their stores perform quickly even when people were logged in. Caching couldn’t be the one strategy used for performance.

The opposite thing they’ve in common is that they’re the way in which today’s creators are doing digital commerce. There’s a difference between a business that has a web site, and when the web site is the business.

That’s been our constant focus — to work with and support the creators who’re running their businesses online and the developers and agencies who help construct those sites.

There’s nobody in the net learning space that hasn’t already heard of LearnDash. They aren’t only the leader in eLearning, but they’re the strongest WordPress plugin that is thought outside the WordPress community.

And there’s never been a more exciting time for WordPress and online learning. The last 18 months have encouraged everyone to construct their courses online. That push was on top of an already growing industry.

WordPress makes it easy for creators to construct things online. LearnDash makes it even easier to create courses and training online.

Welcoming LearnDash into this family is incredibly exciting, as we’ve known all along how vital online learning and courses are to our customers.

It’s been a really full yr as we’ve continued to make investments in key WordPress plugins and the launch of the StellarWP umbrella brand. The acquisitions of Restrict Content Pro, The Events Calendar, the Kadence theme, Iconic, and GiveWP have highlighted that we’re committed to bringing best-in-class solutions to our creators and the developers who help them construct digital commerce solutions.

You may expect to see greater collaborations, integrations, and bundles as we also connect the dots between all these great WordPress solutions and our unrivaled hosting products from Nexcess.

I, for one, can’t wait to see how all of this comes together to please everyone involved.