Teachable to WordPress Migration: Own Your Course Platform
A Teachable to WordPress migration moves your courses, videos, quizzes, students and sales off Teachable and onto a WordPress site you own, usually with LearnDash running the courses and WooCommerce or Stripe taking the money. Teachable will suggest you integrate instead of leave. Sometimes that's right. But if you're paying a transaction fee on every sale, fighting the page editor, or running your live classes in three other tools, integrating just adds a fourth.
We did this for Puente Language Studio, a 340 learner school whose courses, live classes, community and automations had become four disconnected systems. We rebuilt the experience around one login and one program spine. From $1,500 USD, priced in writing before we touch anything.
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Teachable vs WordPress: should you migrate or stay?
Honestly, maybe not. Here's the fork.
Stay on Teachable if you sell one or two courses, you're happy with how they look, your students are happy, and the Builder or Growth plan covers you. Teachable's pricing page on 1 September 2026 lists Builder at $89 a month, or $69 a month billed yearly, with a 0% platform transaction fee and 10 published products. Payment-processing and other applicable commerce fees still apply. That's a fair deal for a simple course business. Don't let anyone, including us, talk you into a migration you don't need.
Think about leaving if
- You're on Starter ($39 a month) and Teachable is taking 7.5% of every sale.
- Your course library is on Teachable but your live classes, bookings and community live in Zoom, Calendly and somewhere else, held together by Zapier.
- You've hit the product or student limits on your plan and the next plan up is a jump you resent.
- You want your course pages to look like your brand, not like a Teachable school.
- You want to own the platform, the student data and the checkout outright.
Not sure which side you're on? The four question Platform Finder gives you our real logic without an email address.
What Teachable lets you export, and what we rebuild by hand
Teachable's own help centre is clear about this, so we'll be too. You can export user and transaction data to CSV. There is no native button that exports a whole course as one portable file. Content comes out piece by piece: videos and files are downloaded from their blocks, while text and other lesson material are saved separately.
That's the raw material. Here is what we do with it.
Moves cleanly
- Course and lecture structure, rebuilt as LearnDash courses, lessons and topics
- Text lectures, PDFs, downloads and images
- Videos, hosted again on Bunny Stream or Vimeo and embedded in the new lessons
- Quizzes, rebuilt in LearnDash so they track properly
- Students, their emails, and which courses each one owns
- Your custom domain, handed over with 301 redirects from the old Teachable URLs so Google and bookmarks follow
Rebuilt, not copied
- Your checkout, on WooCommerce or Stripe, with no platform fee on top of the processor's
- Coupons and bundles
- Certificates
- Your school's homepage and sales pages, designed around your brand instead of a Teachable theme
Does not move
- Lecture comments. They stay in Teachable. We archive them if you want them.
- Sales history. Download your transaction reports before you cancel; we'll list which ones.
- Teachable's student apps. Your students use your site on their phone instead, and we design for that.
- Active subscriptions and payment plans move on their own plan, see the questions at the bottom.
The Puente story, in 200 words
Puente Language Studio teaches Spanish to adults in Tucson, mostly people who married into a Spanish speaking family or travel for work. Six and a half years in, 340 active students, around $28,000 a month across a self paced membership and eight week live cohorts. The teaching was never the problem.
The setup underneath was four products held together by automations. Courses on Teachable, live classes booked in Calendly and delivered in Zoom, community on Mighty Networks, and Zapier passing messages between all of it. Roughly once a month a zap quietly stopped and nobody knew until a student asked why she never got her Zoom link.
Only 110 of 500 people finished the beginner track in a year. Students couldn't tell whether "unit 4 conversation practice" on the calendar was "module 4" in the Teachable library, because nobody had ever made those two names match. The support address forwarded to a personal inbox. A student emailed it, heard nothing, and asked if the school was still running.
We built one login, one dashboard and one program spine on WordPress. The dashboard opens on the next thing you're meant to do. Modules and live weeks are one numbered unit. Support is a real inbox with visible status. She stops paying about $343 a month for four overlapping subscriptions.
Read the full Puente case study See the Puente screens in the portfolio
How the migration runs, step by step
1. Inventory and map. We go through your Teachable school and count everything: courses, lectures, videos, quizzes, downloads, students, coupons, bundles. Each item gets a destination on the new site and you see the map before we build. What we need from you: owner access to Teachable and a list of anything you know is messy.
2. Build beside Teachable. The new WordPress and LearnDash platform goes up on a subdomain while Teachable keeps selling. Nothing goes dark. What we need from you: hosting, brand assets, and an hour to walk through the student experience.
3. Move and verify. Content, media, quizzes and students come across, then we check them by hand. Sample logins, course access, quiz results, certificates. What we need from you: three or four real students willing to try the new login early.
4. Domain, redirects and checkout. If your school runs on a domain you control, we point it to the new site and map the old URLs to their closest new pages. If it only uses a teachable.com address, Teachable controls that hostname, so we use a transition page while the old school is available and update every external link we can find. The checkout is rebuilt on WooCommerce or Stripe and tested with a labelled test transaction before anyone else sees it.
5. Cutover and the fourteen day watch. In a quiet window we switch the domain, turn on the redirects and open the new checkout. Students log in the next morning with the same email and their course where they left it. We watch the inbox with you for two weeks.
Student passwords and the "nothing changed" email
Passwords don't move between platforms, and nobody should pretend they do. What moves is the student, their email and their access. Each one sets a new password once, through a link in an email we write for you. The email says three things: the course is moving to a new home, your login email stays the same, and here's the link. It goes out a few days before the switch, and again the morning after to anyone who hasn't clicked.
Done this way, the migration is a two minute job for each student, and for most of them it's less interesting than the new dashboard.
What it costs and how long it takes
From $1,500 USD, final price in writing after the inventory. What moves the number: the number of courses and lectures, hours of video to host again, quizzes, bundles and coupons to recreate, active subscriptions, and whether your homepage and sales pages are part of the job or a separate LMS Build.
Four to eight weeks from inventory to cutover for most schools. A single course can be quicker. Puente, with a membership, live cohorts and four tools to fold in, was at the top of that range.
You'll need your own hosting afterwards, which Teachable bundles into its plans. Hosting cost depends on traffic, storage, support and the stack you choose. The LearnDash LMS one-site plugin is $199 a year on its official pricing page, checked on 1 September 2026. We show both recurring costs in writing before you decide.
If the thing that hurts most is the checkout itself rather than the platform, look at Checkout and Funnel Repair first. It's cheaper and sometimes it's the whole answer.
Questions people ask before they book
Do I lose my Teachable payment plan subscribers? Not if the billing transition is planned properly, but recurring charges do not automatically move with course content. During inventory we identify the payment gateway and each active plan. The safe route may be to keep existing charges running in Teachable while granting matching access on WordPress, or to ask subscribers to consent to a new checkout. We document and test the chosen route so nobody is intentionally enrolled in two active billing plans.
Can you move me to Thinkific or Kajabi instead of WordPress? We can, and sometimes we should. We recommend one platform per client and have no stake in which one. If you want ownership, design control and no platform fee, WordPress with LearnDash is usually the answer. If you want a hosted platform with less to maintain, we'll say so and price that instead.
What happens to my Teachable SEO? If your school is on a domain you control, old URLs with traffic get mapped to relevant new pages and redirected after the switch. If it is only on a teachable.com address, you cannot install server redirects on Teachable's domain after leaving; we keep a transition path live where possible and update important external links while the new site starts building visibility on your own domain.
Do I need to keep paying Teachable during the move? Yes, for the length of the migration plus two weeks. You cancel once the new site has handled a fortnight of real students and real sales. Plan for one overlapping month.
Who hosts the videos afterwards? You do, on a video host you control. We usually evaluate Bunny Stream or Vimeo based on library size, bandwidth, privacy and support needs, then show the current cost before setup. The videos are embedded in the new lessons rather than tied to the old Teachable school.
Ready to map your migration?
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We'll reply within a day with what moves, what doesn't, and a price. Or book the call and bring your Teachable bill.
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