LearnPress – BuddyPress Integration vs Widget Areas for LearnDash

LearnPress is a WordPress LMS Plugin by ThimPress. You can view the courses you have taken, finished or wanted to learn inside of wonderful profile page of BuddyPress with LearnPress buddyPress plugin. Want to see how it looks in action? See our WordPress Theme for Educational. Other free add-ons for LearnPress are available in WordPress: LearnPress Wishlist – add courses to a wishlist for students. LearnPress Course Review – review course for enrolled students. LearnPress Import/Export – export or import course or courses out-of-box. LearnPress Prerequisites Courses – require student to pass some courses in order to enroll other course. LearnPress bbPress Integration – add bbPress Forum support for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin. LearnPress BuddyPress Integration – add BuddyPress support for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin, turn your WordPress BuddyPress website into BuddyPress LMS (BuddyPress Learning Management System)”. LearnPress Offline Payment – help you to manually create order for offline payment instead of paying via any payment gateways to sell course. LearnPress Fill In Blank – Fill in Blank question type for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin. Premium Plugins (add-ons) for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin Assignments add-on for LearnPress – Newly released – Allowing instructors to give assignments, homework for students and they can grade the students’ work later on. The Assignments add-on is a great supplement to LearnPress and will make your course more interactive. myCRED add-on for LearnPress – adding myCRED support for LearnPress WordPress LMS plugin, you can add point system to your eLearning WordPress site using LearnPress + myCRED add-on. Certificates add-on for LearnPress – adding drag & drop certificates builder as well as selecting designed certificate for each LMS course, your student will get particular certificate when they finished a course. Co-instructors add-on for LearnPress – multiple instructors support for each LMS course. Collections add-on for LearnPress – making LMS courses collection by selecting number of courses, this is helpful if you want to combine multiple LMS courses into a collection for a group of skills. Stripe Payment method for LearnPress – Stripe payment method for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin. 2Checkout add-on for LearnPress – makes LearnPress plugin ready to use 2Checkout payment gateway to pay for courses. Authorize.Net add-ons for LearnPress – Authorize.Net payment method for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin. WooCommerce add-on for LearnPress – using WooCommerce as payment gateway for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin. Content Drip add-on for LearnPress – the feature to restrict the access of student to each lesson by progress, or time. Sorting Choices question type for LearnPress – another interactive question type for LearnPress. Commission add-on for LearnPress – provide a Commission Management system for LearnPress. Gradebook add-on for LearnPress – provides you features to view your class result, export these result to csv, post those to frontend. Random Quiz add-on for LearnPress – allows you to create a random questions quiz. Each student will get different quiz within a same course. Paid Membership Pro add-on for LearnPress – integrates Paid Membership Pro with LearnPress, bring membership feature to your powerful WordPress based LMS system. Announcement add-on for LearnPress – Announcement is a great way to promote your courses and update new features + contents to your courses, including email notification. Other note Documentation is available in ThimPress site. LearnPress github repo.

Widget Areas for LearnDash simply gives you more places to add custom content in LearnDash. By utilizing built-in LearnDash action hooks, we assign widget areas (also known as “sidebars”) to various locations throughout your LearnDash pages. Available LearnDash Widget Areas Focus Mode: Sidebar: Above Navigation Focus Mode: Sidebar: Below Navigation Focus Mode: Content: Start Focus Mode: Below Content Course Page: Content: Start Course Page: Content: End Group Page: Content: Start Group Page: Content: End Requires the “LearnDash 3.0” Active Template. Tested with LearnDash 4.23. How to Use Upon activating the plugin, new widget areas will appear on the Appearance > Widgets screen in your WordPress admin area. You can also access them via the Customizer (Appearance > Customize > Widgets). Simply add the blocks/widgets you’d like to insert into the corresponding widget areas. Be sure to click the “Save” button at the bottom. Navigate to a page that contains that widget area, refresh, and your new widgets will be there. Types of Content to Add WordPress comes with a set of default widgets, several of which might be useful. If you’re using the new block editor, all blocks will also be available to you. Add a simple Paragraph block with some basic text Add an Image or Video/Embed block for more visual content Add a Navigation Menu widget to insert a custom menu you’ve created Add your own Custom HTML widget to embed an or write your own code TIP: You can use the LearnDash Student and LearnDash Visitor blocks to display a block’s contents only to enrolled students or unenrolled visitors. LearnDash Widgets LearnDash comes prepackaged with a few widgets, but there’s probably only one that makes sense in these widget areas. Add a Course Progress Bar to the top or bottom of your Focus Mode sidebar Feel free to experiment with the other LearnDash widgets. Elementor Templates If you’re using Elementor Pro, you can create a custom section and embed it anywhere on your site, including in your new LearnDash widget areas. There are two ways to do this: When you go to insert a block/widget, select the Elementor Library widget. Choose a template from the dropdown menu. Click “Save.” Navigate to Templates > Saved Templates. Copy the shortcode next to the template you want to insert. Now you’ll insert a Shortcode block into the widget area, and paste the shortcode. For more information, see the article in Elementor’s knowledge base. Widget Area CSS Class Names If you need to target the widget areas to apply custom styles using CSS, you can use the following class names. All widget areas have the .ldx-widget-area class. Focus Mode: Sidebar: Above Navigation – .ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-before Focus Mode: Sidebar: After Navigation – .ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-after Focus Mode: Content: Start – .ldx-widget-area.fm-content-start Focus Mode: Below Content – .ldx-widget-area.fm-content-bottom Course Page: Content: Start – .ldx-widget-area.course-content-start Course Page: Content: End – .ldx-widget-area.course-content-end Group Page: Content: Start – .ldx-widget-area.group-content-start Group Page: Content: End – .ldx-widget-area.group-content-end Example Usage: .ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-before { margin: 1em; } This would add 1em of spacing around the widget area that appears above the navigation in the Focus Mode sidebar. In addition, all widgets placed inside of a widget area have a class of .ldx-widget. Show/Hide Widgets on Certain Devices While not a direct feature of this plugin, you can show/hide widgets on different devices using another free plugin. Install & activate the Widget Options plugin Navigate to the widget that you’d like to adjust the visibility on Scroll to the bottom and click on the tab with the mobile phone Choose to either show or hide on the checked devices Check the appropriate devices Click “Save” Show/Hide Widgets on Specific Course/Lesson/Topic Pages Another feature of the free Widget Options plugin (mentioned above) is to only show widgets on specific course, lesson, topic or quiz pages. Install & activate the Widget Options plugin Navigate to the widget that you’d like to adjust the visibility on Scroll to the bottom and click on the settings cog icon Click on the Logic tab In the text box, you can use the is_single() conditional tag to only display that widget on a specific page Use the ID of the course, lesson, topic or quiz 👉 How to find the ID of LearnDash content Example: This would only display the widget on the page with an ID of 7: is_single( '7' ) If you wanted to display a widget on multiple pages (with IDs of 1, 2 and 3), your code would look like this: is_single( array( 1, 2, 3 ) ) There are many more WordPress conditional tags you can use. From within WordPress Visit “Plugins > Add New” Search for “Widget Areas for LearnDash” Click the “Install” button Click the “Activate” button Navigate to “Appearance > Widgets” or open the Customizer to start adding blocks/widgets to your new widget areas