What is the LearnDash MCP server?
The LearnDash MCP server from AcrossAI lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client build courses, manage enrolment and progress, and run groups, certificates and reports on your WordPress site. It runs inside WordPress through AcrossAI Pro, on top of the free Abilities Manager and MCP Manager plugins, and works through LearnDash itself — with no third-party relay in between.
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What your AI can do with LearnDash
LearnDash spreads courses, lessons, quizzes, enrolment, progress and certificates across many screens. These abilities let an AI assistant build and restructure courses, enrol and unenrol learners, fix progress, and pull reports — through LearnDash itself.
Build course content
Create and edit courses, lessons, topics, quizzes and questions, and reorder the course outline.
Enrolment and progress
Enrol and unenrol learners, check why someone can’t access a course, and fix progress.
Groups, certificates and achievements
Manage groups and leaders, certificate templates, achievements and points.
Reports and notifications
Course progress reports, quiz statistics and attempts, activity, and LearnDash notifications.
Troubleshooting
Learners stuck? Three LearnDash problems AI can sort out.
Each of these usually means digging through a learner’s profile and the course builder by hand.
A learner can’t open a course
Enrolment, groups and access dates all decide access. Get Access Info shows which one is blocking.
Progress is stuck on one step
A quiz or lesson that didn’t register leaves the course incomplete. Get User Progress finds it; Mark Step Complete fixes it.
The course outline is out of order
Get Course Structure shows the tree and Reorder Steps puts lessons and topics back in sequence.
Try asking
Paste one into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor once your site is connected.
“Enrol priya@example.com in Photography Basics.”
“Why can’t user 42 open the Advanced SEO course?”
“Move Lesson 3 to the start of the WordPress Basics course.”
“Show quiz statistics for the Final Exam.”
“Which learners in the Beta group haven’t started the onboarding course?”
“Create a 5-question quiz on WordPress security.”
AcrossAI vs WPVibe vs Novamira for LearnDash
Three ways to connect an AI assistant to LearnDash. The difference is where the MCP server runs and what sits between your AI and your site.
| AcrossAI | WPVibe | Novamira | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the MCP server runs | On your WordPress site | Hosted gateway at mcp.wpvibe.ai | On your WordPress site |
| Third-party relay | None | Every call passes through WPVibe’s cloud | None |
| How it works with LearnDash | 74 dedicated LearnDash abilities, each labelled read-only, write or destructive | Plugin abilities, REST API and WP-CLI | General PHP access; no dedicated LearnDash specialization listed |
| Designed for | Production sites, with risky changes gated behind confirm | Any host reachable over HTTPS | Dev and staging environments with backups |
| Price | AcrossAI Pro, from $99 a year per site, with a 30-day free trial | Free plan with a daily action allowance; paid tiers | Free core; specializations in Novamira Pro |
Based on each product’s own published documentation, September 2026.
LearnDash + AI questions
Is there an MCP server for LearnDash?
Yes. AcrossAI turns your WordPress site into an MCP server with 74 dedicated LearnDash abilities, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or a local model can work with LearnDash directly. The LearnDash abilities ship in AcrossAI Pro.
Can ChatGPT or Claude manage LearnDash?
Yes, once your site is connected over MCP. Ask in plain English and your AI calls the LearnDash abilities on this page, with risky changes gated behind an explicit confirm.
Is the LearnDash integration free?
No. The LearnDash abilities ship in AcrossAI Pro, from $99 a year for one site, and every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. Abilities Manager and MCP Manager, which it runs on, stay free on WordPress.org.
Can I limit AI access to certain LearnDash groups?
Yes. AcrossAI Pro can restrict AI connections to members of chosen LearnDash groups.
Does it cover LearnDash’s WooCommerce and Elementor add-ons?
Yes. It can link courses to WooCommerce products and list LearnDash’s Elementor widgets.
Which AI assistants work with it?
Any MCP client: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, Claude Code, and local runtimes such as Ollama, LM Studio and Open WebUI.
Does my site data pass through AcrossAI’s servers?
No. Your WordPress site runs the MCP server and your AI client connects to it directly. There is no hosted gateway in the middle.
Is AcrossAI affiliated with LearnDash?
No. AcrossAI built and maintains this integration independently, using LearnDash’s public APIs.