Design Upgrade for LearnDash vs Purify Menus

LearnDash is a powerful learning management system (LMS) for managing your online courses, but there are some areas where the design falls short. In order to provide your students with an exceptional learning experience, you need a professional design. Enter Design Upgrade for LearnDash Design Upgrade for LearnDash completely redesigns every aspect of LearnDash so that it closely resembles your existing WordPress theme. No settings or custom code. Just activate & enjoy! Compatible with LD3 & “Legacy” Templates We’ll automatically detect whether you’re using the “LearnDash 3.0” or “Legacy” template, and assign styles appropriately. If you’re still running LearnDash 2.x, all of the same design upgrades that you’ve always enjoyed will still be there. See below for a list of what’s new. Features Tested with LearnDash 4.3.0.2 NEW: Improved styles for the new LearnDash registration process/page Global: Larger clickable areas for all course content, navigation & Focus Mode areas Buttons: All buttons have matching rounded corners & increased font size Font Sizes: These will now be inherited from your theme, which should increase your font sizes across the board Focus Mode: Improved sidebar tray design, Course Sections, shadow added to mobile menu, collapse arrow flips to show current menu state, and more. Focus Mode: Top navigation bar received several small improvements Focus Mode: Improved styles for Focus Mode comments, which were added in LearnDash 3.1 Animations: Subtle animations for LearnDash tooltips & the Focus Mode top menu Profile: Several styles were improved & standardized Login/Registration: Unified styles for all form fields Course Grid: Equal height columns & other small tweaks WisdmLabs Ratings, Reviews & Feedback design upgrades Design improvements for WisdmLabs’ LearnDash Group Registration plugin Improved print styles Also: Small tweaks were made to assignments, pagination, the “User Status” widget and more. LearnDash 2.x “Legacy” Features Tested with LearnDash 2.6.6. We no longer support these features and highly recommend using the LearnDash 3.0 active template. Much improved course grid styles, equal height cards & no more weird spacing issues 👍 All fonts have been reset to use your theme’s default font family, size & color All PNG icons have been replaced with comparable SVGs All complete/incomplete icons for lesson/topic/quiz lists have been moved to the right for better consistency Spacing around & between elements has been adjusted to provide greater consistency throughout All LearnDash widgets now have more consistent spacing & sizing, including improvements to Course Info & Course Navigation Styling for the [ld_profile] shortcode has been completely revamped Completely revamped & restyled quiz elements 💯 Improved design of the statistics modal window (for quizzes), including row highlights on hover Larger pager navigation buttons to improve usability Full support for RTL languages Who is this for? Brand new LearnDash users: There is absolutely no reason not to try it out. At the very least, it will give your site a more consistent design. If you plan to customize LearnDash further, you can still do so using a child theme or Additional CSS in the Customizer. Seasoned LearnDash veterans: If you have not made any customizations to your LearnDash design, but would like to improve it, give us a shot. You might want to try it out on a test site first, but you can deactivate it with one click and return to your previous design. You might also want to give your students a heads up that you’re updating the design. But we feel confident that they’ll like it 🙂 LearnDash developers: If you’re a developer who builds LearnDash sites for your clients, this could save you hours (maybe even days) of development time. LearnDash’s markup & CSS is a beast to customize. This will give you a much easier baseline to work with. We designed the plugin to be just specific enough to override LearnDash’s default styles, but not so specific that you’ll need to use a ton of selectors to override our specifity. All CSS in child themes and Additional CSS will take precedence over our styles. Pro Version Need custom styles? Our pro version uses the Customizer to bring you over 110 customizable design options. Completely customize your LearnDash site with just a few clicks. Pro Features Achievements Add-On: 10 new customization options Show/Hide various course & profile features Disable expand/collapse links & show all by default Course Content Lists: Update background & text colors, hover effects, customize line separators, remove the list count numbers and more Progress Bar: Customize the color, border radius & height, add stripes, and animate the bar on page load Buttons: Add your own background & text colors [ld_profile]: Avatar shape, custom “edit profile” link, hide profile info, hide quiz information, and more Login/Registration Popup: 10+ design options Focus Mode: 20+ design options, including 7 for Focus Mode comments Course Navigation Widget: 15+ design options Course Grid Add-On: 20+ design options Alerts: 9 custom colors, plus a few other options Tooltips: customize the background & text color Uncanny Groups: buttons, border radius & improved styles are applied to many Uncanny Groups frontend elements Tin Canny Reporting: 12 design options for Tin Canny reports on the front-end Upgrade to Pro Today » Theme Compatibility Design Upgrade for LearnDash should work on most themes, assuming they have not customized the LearnDash markup in any way. While we can’t guarantee full compatibility, we have tested with the following themes. Tested With We have tested with the following themes, and they all appear to be compatible: Astra Divi GeneratePress eLumine (when using the “LearnDash 3.0” active template or eLumine’s “Elementary Layouts”) LearnMate Edufire Neve OceanWP Incompatible Themes BuddyBoss Platform (released June 2019) Boss. / Social Learner (If you deactivate the “Boss for LearnDash” plugin, it will still work in “Legacy” mode) eLumine (when using the “Legacy” active template or any version of LearnDash before 3.0) Incompatible Plugins LearnDash Visual Customizer by SnapOrbital: The Visual Customizer takes a similar approach to designing LearnDash components, and thus the code conflicts with ours. Uncanny Owl Toolkit Compatibility We recognize the Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit by Uncanny Owl is a popular LearnDash plugin that adds some nice features. We’re in the process of making our plugin fully compatible with theirs. Here’s where we are so far: Reset Progress button: Button styles upgraded Simple Course Timer modal: Button styles upgraded [uo_dashboard]: Styles upgraded [uo_courses]: Styles upgraded [uo_breadcrumbs]: Compatible; Considering upgrades [uo_lessons_topics_grid]: Compatible; Considering upgrades [uo_login_ui]: Compatible; Considering upgrades NOTE: Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit styles are only upgraded if you’re using the “LearnDash 3.0” active template. Styles do not apply to the “Legacy” template. Plugin Compatibility Ratings, Reviews & Feedback plugin by WisdmLabs As of version 2.5, we now enhance the styles of the Ratings, Reviews & Feedback plugin by WisdmLabs. For a detailed overview, please see our article on ldx.design. Group Registration plugin by WisdmLabs As of version 2.6, we now enhance the styles of the Group Registration plugin by WisdmLabs. General design improvements will be made to all frontend elements output by the [wdm_group_users] shortcode. Browser Support A few techniques we use to improve the LearnDash design are only supported in the latest versions of major browsers. For the most part, as long as you’re not using Internet Explorer, most (if not all) of our plugin’s design upgrades will work. We support the latest versions of the following browsers: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Apple Safari Microsoft Edge Chrome for Android Firefox for Android iOS Safari (not tested, but should work) We do not support any version of Internet Explorer, however, we do offer a few code snippets & suggestions to fix a few issues in IE11. See the IE11 section below in FAQ. Roadmap As LearnDash adds new features, it is our goal to keep this plugin updated. Features planned for future release: New features for the Quiz Reporting Extension by WisdmLabs Compatibility with more Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit modules We’d love to hear from you! Does something look weird with your theme? Is there something we missed? Wouldn’t it be cool if… We tested it on a handful of popular themes, but we couldn’t possibly cover them all. If you have any feedback, please let us know in the support forum. Credits Paint brush icon made by Freepik, courtesy of flaticon.com. Licensed under CC3.0 BY. Gradient by colorful gradients From within WordPress Visit “Plugins > Add New” Search for “Design Upgrade for LearnDash” Click the “Install” button Click the “Activate” button There are no settings to configure. An improved design will automatically be applied to all LearnDash elements on your site.

Improve page speed by letting slim down the HTML code of menus and category lists to the only CSS classes and attributes your theme needs. The plugin is available in English, Spanish (Español) and German (Deutsch). Less code, higher page speed This plugin deletes the CSS classes you do not need in a navigation menu, page menu and category list. It slims down the HTML code of WordPress menus and category lists to the only neccessary CSS classes you want for your theme. This results in less HTML code and thus in higher page speed. If you are very concerned about the loading time of your website and you do not manage to gain seconds or tenths in the loading of the site with 3rd party caching plugins, you may find it interesting to experiment with the plugin Purify WordPress Menus and evaluate its possibilities. What users said …interesante experimentar… in Reduce CSS en WordPress y mejora la carga by Luis Méndez Alejo on August 20, 2015 Number 1 in Cool List of Free Navigation Menu WordPress Plugins by Inspiration on January 8, 2015 Number 7 in 13 Excellent Free WordPress Widgets for Menus by mike on November 24, 2014 Number 6 in 13 Great Free HTML Widgets for WordPress by sam on August 27, 2014 Number 8 in 10 Magnificent Free Menus Widgets for WordPress by jatin on July 26, 2014 No undesirable visual effects The visual appearance of menus and category lists in the frontend remains unchanged in most cases. If you should see an undesirable visual effect to the menus and category lists in your theme, then you can activate the needed CSS classes on the plugin’s options page. Deactivate it and keep your settings If you deactivate the plugin, your settings remains. If you activate the plugin again, your last settings will be used. You do not need to go over all settings again. Residue-free deletion If you delete the plugin via the WordPress ‘Plugin’ menu, your settings will be deleted, too. No useless option remains in the WordPress database. Default setting: Marks the current menu item only The default setting is to output only the CSS classes for the navigation menu items of the current post and the current category. Stops displaying CSS classes of parents and ancestors of menu items and category list items If activated by yourself, then items which are parents of the current item will not be classified as ancestors additionally. You can set that separately for both menus and category lists. Stops displaying CSS classes of outdated page menus This plugin filters out the old CSS classes of page menus in navigation menus. Using the WordPress menu configurator the page menu classes are not necessary anymore. Stops displaying #menu-{id} This plugin deletes the ID attribute of each menu item. In most cases the ID of every menu item is not needed. Stops displaying CSS classes of category lists This plugin filters out the CSS classes of each item in category lists. Uses WordPress standard functions This plugin hooks into the WordPress core functions wp_nav_menu(), wp_page_menu() and wp_list_categories(). It changes the results of those functions to the settings you have done. Switch on and off every CSS menu item class You can: select and deselect in detail every CSS menu item class the WordPress core functions wp_nav_menu(), wp_page_menu() and wp_list_categories() generate control whether the id attribute of each navigation menu item is printed out or not control whether parent items will be additionally classified as ancestors item or not. You can activate to print out both classes on parent items or just parents classes control whether navigation menus will be additionally classified with the older page menu classes for compatibility or not. Languages Purify WordPress Menus is available in multiple languages maintained by the amazing WordPress community. Your language is missing? Please be part of the community and help to translate Purify WordPress Menus on GlotPress. Thank you!