Thrive Apprentice WordPress Course Builder
Effortlessly Create Online Courses in WordPress to Grow Your Business
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Especially the marketing solutions make Thrive Apprentice a real winner for me!
Wow! Just wow. I've been a Thrive user for a long time and I'm building (Almost finished) a course with Thrive Apprentice now.
Thrive Themes has always been the best on the web. Hands down. Adding Thrive Apprentice into the family, especially with all the marketing solutions is a real winner for me. Love all the excellent teaching material available as well.
Thanks for an absolutely excellent product.
David S.
Thrive Customer
I can ditch my membership software and better service my audience!
This is a game changer! Awesome functionality.
I can ditch my membership software and switch everything to Thrive Apprentice, and unleash its power on my website to better service my audience and improve the user experience.
Thank you Thrive!
Rob Dyer
Thrive Suite Customer
The Hassle-Free WordPress Course Plugin
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If you’ve tried any other LMS WordPress plugin, you know the experience of building your online course is far from enjoyable. You’re fighting with different screens to create lessons, courses, topics, modules...
Not in Thrive Apprentice!
Thrive Apprentice makes course creation fun and easy.
Drag and Drop Course Builder
Drag and drop the lessons and modules to easily create the best learning path for your course.
Well Organized Courses
Create modules, chapters and lessons to keep your courses well organized and easy to go through for students.
Any Media Format
Easily create text lessons, video lessons or audio lessons. Or mix and match different content to your heart's desire.
Easily Add Resources
Add resources to your lessons in one click. This will automatically create a nicely designed Resource Area for students to enjoy. Add links, PDFs and more.
Partially Publish When Ready
Work on your course behind the scenes. It’s up to you to decide when you’re ready to publish. Publish any module with all the lessons or only some of the lessons. This allows you to start selling as soon as part of the course is ready.
Visual Editor to Build Your Lesson Content
Easily create text lessons, video lessons or audio lessons. Or mix and match different content to your heart's desire.
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Great "plugin"! I put plugin in quotes... Thrive is way more than that!
WOW!!! I am blown away with Thrive Themes and the way you continually improve.
I have been a customer for several years and seen many of them, each better than before.
Hands-Down the best Theme-Content-Membership-whatever you need it has it – conversion and delivery suite for WordPress.
Great team, great support, great “plugin” (I put “plugin” in quotes, because Thrive Apprentice it is way more than that).
Christine Sauer
Thrive Suite Customer
Little guys like me can create a fully functioning online business AND make it look good!
Just.....unbelievable.
You guys are AMAZING. You have created a set of tools so that little guys like me can create a fully functioning online business, AND make it look good! I am so proud to be a Thrive member. Sending lots of gratitude your way.
Andy
Thrive Suite Customer
Quickly Create a Professional Learning Experience with Customizable Design Templates
No matter how you cut it, your students will judge the quality of your course on what they see BEFORE even getting into the actual content of your course.
Thrive Apprentice is the only WordPress course builder that gives you total design freedom over EVERY aspect of your online course.
Course Overview Pages That Will Help You Sell MORE Courses
Your course overview page or school homepage is one of the first pages visitors will see. Whether you’re linking to this page to help sell it or give students a top level view of your course, it’s one of the most important pages in the student experience.
With Thrive Apprentice, this page is endlessly customizable with the Thrive Visual Editor.
Fully Customizable Course List Layout
Choose from a ton of different designs to list your course and customize every single detail. Grid view, Masonry or List view?
The sky's the limit!
Add Any Element to Your Course Overview
Because you have total design freedom over your school homepage, you can add ANY call to action here.
Filter and Add Multiple Course List Elements
The course list element has powerful filters that allow you to show or hide any of your courses. You can even have several course lists on one page to split your courses by difficulty, category and more.
Custom Header
Give your course a dedicated header to make an awesome user experience for your students.
Course Lesson and Modules Contain Exactly What You Want
Thrive Apprentice comes with tons of pre-designed templates for your lesson, course overview and module pages.
You can customize every detail to fit your needs. With or without a sidebar, collapsible sidebar of fixed sidebar, full screen video or split screen layout. If you can imagine it, you can create it.
Fully Customizable Sidebar
Hide or show, left or right, collapsible or not. Any sidebar configuration is possible within Thrive Apprentice
Any Content Layout
Your content is unique. So it deserves a unique layout to fit your needs. With featured image or without, full screen or smaller video, center aligned or not... Choose whatever you prefer.
100% Brand Color Ready
All the templates are fully color customizable to fit your brand!
Add and Delete Any Element
The templates come with elements such as the Author image and description, next and previous lesson buttons, etc.
You're always free to easily add or delete any of these elements.
Smart Colors for One-Click Color Customization
Thrive Apprentice templates use our proprietary smart color technology. This technology makes it one-click easy for you to pick your brand color and have an entire smart color palette applied to your online school designs.
An Easy Setup Wizard That Works With Any WordPress Theme
Setting up your course environment is super easy with Thrive Apprentice's School Setup Wizard. The wizard will guide you through picking your preferred base templates. This allows you to wireframe a beautiful online course school in mere minutes, compatible with ANY WordPress theme!
Start taking your online business to the next level
Get Thrive Apprentice today!
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In just 1 day I created everything I needed to sell my courses!
Thank you very much. I've spun my wheels for months to understand how to do all of this.
In just 1 day I created everything I needed to sell my courses.
Cornelia
Thrive Suite Customer
Thrive always delivers top notch products!
I’m so looking forward to building my course and utilizing this system.
Thrive always delivers top notch products. Love this!
Jerry H.
Thrive THEMES Customer
Intelligent Marketing Features That Allow You to Sell MORE with Ease
Creating a course is a lot of work, but it’s only just the beginning…
Once you have your course filmed and your course environment up and running, you have to learn how to sell as many copies as possible…
No worries, Thrive Apprentice has got you covered!
The Most Flexible Drip Functionality Available for WordPress
Most WordPress course management plugins will promise you content drip, but none allow you the level of access control that Apprentice gives you.
evergreen repeating
Unlock content at consistent intervals for each student. This is ideal for courses that are always open for purchase.
Eg. Unlock a new lesson every week on Monday when someone purchases a course.
scheduled repeating
Unlock content at consistent intervals for each student. This is ideal for courses that are always open for purchase.
Eg. Unlock a new lesson every week on Monday when someone purchases a course.
day of the week or month
Unlock content on a specific weekday or day of the month. Ideal for recurring memberships.
Eg. Unlock a new module every first Monday of the month.
Drip on Specific Dates
Unlock content on specific calendar dates that you can customize. Ideal for cohort learning courses with irregular schedules.
Eg. Unlock a new lesson on the 10th, 17th and 24th of July then skip 1 week for implementation then continue on the 7th of August.
Thrive Automator Unlock
Use custom event triggers and third party integrations to unlock content. Ideal for course creators who use a diverse stack of tools.
Eg. When a tag gets added and a webhook is received from an email marketing service, unlock a new lesson.
Thrive Quiz Builder Unlock
Unlock a lesson based on the results of a quiz in Thrive Quiz Builder. Ideal if you want to make sure students understand the content before continuing the course.
Eg. Only unlock the next module if your students get an 80% or higher on a quiz.
As you can see, the above options already allow for advanced drip schedules, but there's more...
You can mix and match these options.
For example, you can unlock the next module after 1 week, BUT ONLY IF the student had a specific result on your quiz. OR you can immediately unlock the next lesson when a custom event trigger comes in from Thrive Automator. OR you can unlock the next lesson on a given date or day of the week (Eg. the next Monday). It's this level of control that makes Apprentice the most powerful online course builder for WordPress.
What’s unique to the Thrive Apprentice Drip feature is not just its flexibility, but the fact that you can create multiple drip schedules for the same content. This is what we call Decoupled Drip.
Other course plugins force you to duplicate your entire course if you want to sell it to a new cohort of students. Not Thrive Apprentice!
With Decoupled Drip, you can market like a BIG BRAND without creating a frankenstein of duplicated courses, making it impossible to keep them all up to date.
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I was expecting a well done drip function, but the idea to tie drip to a product is ingenious and unique!
Wooohoo! Congratulations, this takes Thrive Apprentice to a whole new level. I was expecting a well done drip function, but now you've come up with this mega package of features and I must admit the long wait was worth it in the end.
The idea to tie the drip to the product and not to the course is simply ingenious and unique.
And a special thank you for the possibility to protect other content with rules.
Please keep up the good work!
Peter
Thrive Suite Customer
Personalize Every Visitor’s Experience on Your Website With Conditional Display
It’s hard to summarize how powerful conditional display actually is in just a few sentences…
... but let's try anyway. Imagine you can show different content on the same page based on a visitor’s status as either a non-logged-in visitor, a logged-in subscriber or a paying customer.
This power opens the door for deploying business boosting strategies like:
Different course overview pages for Visitors and Students.
Create a course overview page with and without "Buy Now" call to action buttons.
A different pricing table for customers and
non-customers.
Visitors and leads would see the “buy now” button but paying students would get a distraction free experience.
A personalized account page showing the products someone has access to alongside special offers.
The people most likely to buy from you are your current customers!
Get More Sales With Dynamic Labels and Links
Imagine you have multiple courses available for visitors to buy. Thrive Apprentice gives you the power to show Dynamic Labels on each of those courses based on EACH visitor’s course status.
Already a customer? Let visitors know clicking will send them to their most recent lesson.
Not a customer? Dynamic Labels can show which courses visitors haven't purchased yet. And should non-customers try to open a premium course, you can send them to its sales page instead!
Beyond Online Courses…
Thrive Apprentice is A Full-Blown WordPress Membership Plugin
Thrive Apprentice makes it super easy to sell your online courses, but what about building a membership site?
How about instead of getting access to just courses, customers get access to members-only blog posts and pages too? Can Thrive Apprentice do that?
YES IT CAN!
Without having to invest in a separate membership plugin, Thrive Apprentice can protect posts and pages on your site.
Celebrate Your Students with a Course Completion Page
The perfect opportunity to congratulate your students, promote new courses, and collect testimonials
Incentivize Students to Buy and Complete Courses with Gorgeous, Personalized Certificates
Instantly boost the value of your online courses and give your students a feeling of accomplishment by offering certificates upon course completion. Thrive Apprentice Certificates are easy to implement, verifiable, and 100% customizable.
Choose from a selection of beautiful pre-designed templates
Thrive Apprentice comes loaded with impressive, professionally designed and fully editable certificate templates.
Customize certificates using our handy drag-and-drop editor
In just a few easy clicks, tailor fonts, colors, and images to match your brand. Add content boxes, icons, and more.
Let dynamically generated data do the work
No need to manually add students’ names, dates, and course information – Thrive Apprentice does that for you!
Use certificate validation to verify authenticity
With the click of a button, add serial numbers and QR codes so your students can prove the validity of their certificates.
Give Your Customers the Best Possible User Experience
One of the biggest concerns with WordPress course builders is that they can feel very clunky for the student.
Login screens look ugly, students end up lost in the back-end of the WordPress dashboard and restricted content looks archaic when a student stumbles upon it without being logged-in.
Not when taking a course built with Thrive Apprentice! A lot of thought and effort went into making sure you can create the best possible user experience for your students.
Because HAPPY students = LESS support requests and MORE repeat sales.
Beautiful Login and Registration Flows
Say goodbye to those ugly Login & Registration pages the other WordPress LMS plugins force you to use...
Thrive Apprentice gives you the power to completely customize the design of your student Login & Registration forms — as well as the pages they live on!
Translation Ready
Your lessons aren't in English? No problem.
Thrive Apprentice gives you the power to create courses in any language you require!
Custom Header Content
With Thrive Apprentice you can show and hide header menu items based on the login status of the student.
This makes it easy to add a login link for non-logged in students, which changes into a logout link when students are logged in.
Progress Bar and Lesson Complete Indicators
To help students navigate your course, you can show progress bars that will dynamically update based on their course progress, as well as allow students to mark lessons as complete.
Quizzes to Improve Student Engagement Using Thrive Quiz Builder
Use the power of quizzes to engage your students. Block course progression based on quiz results, enforce quiz completion, ask multimedia questions and more...
Thrive Quiz Builder combined with Thrive Apprentice becomes the perfect solution to create an interactive student experience.
Take Full Control of Member Access with a Full-Featured Member Management Dashboard
Thrive Apprentice gives you unparalleled access to your members with all the tools you need to manage their membership
EDIT ACCESS RIGHTS FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
With the click of a button, swiftly grant or revoke access to courses or membership products for specific students.
ACCESS INDIVIDUAL MEMBER PROFILES
Learn more about your members by viewing the activity and course progress per student.
Say goodbye to issuing refunds to people who falsely claim they never watched a single lesson!
EASILY GRANT CUSTOM ACCESS ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS
Unlock dripped content, mark lessons complete, or reset a student’s progress without affecting cohorts or other students.
Discover Valuable Information About Your Students and Courses with Thrive Apprentice Reports
Thrive Apprentice Reports is the most advanced reporting engine for online course creators.
With a just a few clicks, get answers to questions such as:
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How many students are enrolled in my course?
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Where are students dropping Off inside my course?
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How many lessons did a particular student complete?
Keep Your Finger on the Pulse of Your Online Course with These Powerful Reports:
Learn More About Your Students
Find out who your top students are and which lessons they have completed. Keep tabs on student engagement by viewing a handy activity feed.
*Thrive Apprentice Reports provides you with all the data points you need to learn how your students are engaging with your course, and make critical decisions about how to make improvements.
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Thrive Themes was the best investment I made for my business.
Thrive Themes was the best investment I made for my business.
I can literally do everything I want, from adding a punky design all over my site with the woosh of a click, to zooming in on my potential customers thanks to cool opt-ins and popups.
Without it, I think working on my website would be as hard and frustrating as a day without a good ol' cup of dark coffee 70% Arabica 30% Robusta (Kenyan is the best).
Claire Gervais
Thrive Suite Customer
I can think of almost no other suppliers who I am as happy to pay the bill for.
I've been using your themes and plugins for a couple of years or so now. As a micro-business, particularly one hit hard by COVID, every recurring expense that I have has to be considered carefully and justified. I can think of almost no other suppliers who I am as happy to pay the bill for.
The products you create are excellent, and the interface for them is absolutely first class, every time.
I often find myself using other people's tools (for example ActiveCampaign) and thinking "I wish Thrive Themes made this - it would be so much better."
Not only that, but (and perhaps even more importantly) the support you offer is second to none - always an answer, never a problem, no matter how many questions I've had.
Andrew Richards
Thrive Suite Customer
All the Integrations You Need in an Online Course Builder for WordPress
Thrive Apprentice has direct integrations with the most popular tools for running your online business as well as a ton of triggers and actions available in Thrive Automator — our 100% free automation tool.
Thinking of an integration that’s not available in this list? Thrive Automator will more than likely allow you to seamlessly connect it with Thrive Apprentice!
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The WooCommerce integration is a dream come true.
Thrive Apprentice + WooCommerce is a dream come true to me too. Now I can get rid of the membership plugin and move forward.
Feng Yin Tseng
Thrive Customer
I will be a customer for life!
This is the BEST NEWS I've heard from Thrive Themes!! It's a prayer answered and I'm so excited to start using this new tool.
Great developments like Thrive Automator is the reason I will be a customer for LIFE!
Thank you so much, Thrive Team!
Sherine C.
THrive Suite Customer
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Our Pricing Plans
Thrive Suite
Get full access to our entire suite of integrated plugins (including Thrive Apprentice and Thrive Quiz Builder) at one great price. Build and grow your dream online business with a complete set of conversion optimized tools.
$ 599/yr
$
299/yr
Save $300!*
Thrive Apprentice
Get the standalone WordPress plugin.
Best for those with existing websites that want to add online courses and membership functionality.
$ 299/yr
$
149/yr
Save $150!*
30-Day Money Back guarantee
*All pricing is in USD. All renewals are at full price. You can change plans or cancel your account at any time.
Full Feature List
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Licenses
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WordPress Plugins
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Thrive Architect ⓘ
Thrive Leads ⓘ
Thrive Quiz Builder ⓘ
Thrive Ultimatum ⓘ
Thrive Comments ⓘ
Thrive Ovation ⓘ
Thrive Optimize ⓘ
WordPress Themes
Thrive Theme Builder
Shapeshift ⓘ
Ommi ⓘ
Kwik ⓘ
Bookwise ⓘ
Jaya ⓘ
Xpert ⓘ
Templates
For Everything (1000+)
For Your Online Course Environment
Lesson, module, course overview and school templates for online courses
Landing page templates
220+
Smart page block templates
1270+
Lead form templates
Quiz templates
Scarcity campaign templates
Testimonial Templates
Support & Updates
5 Sites
1 Site
Updates
Unlimited
Unlimited
Support Access
24 hour Weekday Support Unlimited requests
24 hour Weekday Support Unlimited requests
Education & Community
Exclusive Access
Free Access
Access to Thrive University
Access to exclusive Thrive Suite only courses
Thrive Suite exclusive webinars
Access to the Facebook Group
Guarantee
30 Days
30 Days
Thrive Suite
Get full access to our entire suite of integrated plugins (including Thrive Apprentice) at one great price. Build and grow your dream online business with a complete set of conversion optimized tools.
$ 599/yr
$
299/yr
Save $300!*
*All pricing is in USD. All renewals are at full price. You can change plans or cancel your account at any time.
Thrive Apprentice
Get the standalone WordPress plugin. Best for those with existing websites that want to add online courses and membership functionality.
$ 299/yr
$
149/yr
Save $150!*
*All pricing is in USD. All renewals are at full price. You can change plans or cancel your account at any time.
Our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If, for any reason, you don't like Thrive Suite, you can get a full refund anytime within 30 days after your first purchase. If you have any issues, just get in touch with our friendly support team and they'll either help you out until you get the results you need or give you a swift refund.
Frequently Asked Questions
As many as you like!
If you purchase Thrive Apprentice as part of Thrive Suite, it comes with 5 licenses. This means you can install Thrive Apprentice on 5 websites! If you purchase the standalone plugin, you can install it on just one site. You can create as many courses as you like on any site you activate Thrive Apprentice on.
Yes! Unlimited free support is included with your purchase of Thrive Suite or Thrive Apprentice so long as the subscription is in good standing.
Yes of course! Apprentice is a highly flexible WordPress e-learning platform, allowing you to reach your audience however you see fit.
Yes. Thrive Suite requires a quarterly or yearly subscription fee.
Yes, if you opt for getting Thrive Apprentice as part of Thrive Suite.
Thrive Suite comes with 5 site licenses. This means you can install Thrive Apprentice, Thrive Theme Builder, Thrive Architect and ALL of our other conversion-focused plugins on up to 5 websites! On each website you activate Thrive Apprentice on, you can create as many courses as you like. However, if you purchase Thrive Apprentice as a standalone plugin, you can install it on one site and create an unlimited amount of courses on that single website.
Thrive Apprentice integrates with SendOwl, ThriveCart and WooCommerce. These checkout tools allow you to easily integrate with PayPal, Stripe and many other payment providers.
No, it’s not.
Thrive Apprentice is a WordPress LMS plugin that allows you to customize your own course and lesson templates to make pro-looking courses!
With Thrive Apprentice, you’ll customize everything from the lesson and module pages to the fine details of your course navigation sidebar. It’s also the only course builder that allows you to customize your online teaching space!
To get started, select your favorite pre-built templates — there’s several to choose from! And from there, you can customize them as much or as little as you want before you upload your content.
Your existing website, opt-in forms, landing pages, quizzes, online courses, A/B tests, etc. will stay intact and working. The only difference is that getting support, updates and using our premium templates requires an active license.
Yes you can! Thrive Apprentice is available as standalone plugin you can install on a single website for an annual subscription.
No, Thrive Apprentice isn't just a course builder, it also serves as a WordPress membership plugin.
If you use Thrive Apprentice alone or with one of our checkout tool integrations (SendOwl, ThriveCart or WooCommerce), your courses and WordPress content can be payment protected.
You can also create Thrive Apprentice products to protect pages and posts on your site, which makes it a full-featured membership plugin as well as an LMS plugin! Learn more about it here.
Yes! Thrive Apprentice comes with the full version of Thrive Architect, specifically to be used on Thrive Apprentice related pages. If you would like to power the rest of your website (such as your home page, blog posts, or sales pages) with Thrive Architect, you will need to purchase a separate Thrive Architect license or upgrade to our full suite of tools, Thrive Suite.
Yes! Thrive Apprentice works independently from your WordPress theme. This means you can use Thrive Theme Builder or any other WordPress theme you’d like with the Thrive Apprentice plugin.
Start taking your online business to the next level
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