Dave Warfel

Escape Creative

<p>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.</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WoR177xks_k?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>Available LearnDash Widget Areas</h3>
<ul>
<li>Focus Mode: Sidebar: Above Navigation</li>
<li>Focus Mode: Sidebar: Below Navigation</li>
<li>Focus Mode: Content: Start</li>
<li>Focus Mode: Below Content</li>
<li>Course Page: Content: Start</li>
<li>Course Page: Content: End</li>
<li>Group Page: Content: Start</li>
<li>Group Page: Content: End</li>
</ul>
<p>Requires the “LearnDash 3.0” Active Template. Tested with LearnDash 4.23.</p>
<h3>How to Use</h3>
<p>Upon activating the plugin, new widget areas will appear on the <strong>Appearance > Widgets</strong> screen in your WordPress admin area. You can also access them via the Customizer (<strong>Appearance > Customize > Widgets</strong>).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Navigate to a page that contains that widget area, refresh, and your new widgets will be there.</p>
<h3>Types of Content to Add</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add a simple <strong>Paragraph</strong> block with some basic text</li>
<li>Add an <strong>Image</strong> or <strong>Video/Embed</strong> block for more visual content</li>
<li>Add a <strong>Navigation Menu</strong> widget to insert a custom menu you’ve created</li>
<li>Add your own <strong>Custom HTML</strong> widget to embed an <code><iframe></code> or write your own code</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>TIP:</strong> You can use the <strong>LearnDash Student</strong> and <strong>LearnDash Visitor</strong> blocks to display a block’s contents only to enrolled students or unenrolled visitors.</p>
<h4>LearnDash Widgets</h4>
<p>LearnDash comes prepackaged with a few widgets, but there’s probably only one that makes sense in these widget areas.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add a <strong>Course Progress Bar</strong> to the top or bottom of your Focus Mode sidebar</li>
</ul>
<p>Feel free to experiment with the other <a href="https://learndash.com/support/kb/core/design/widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash widgets</a>.</p>
<h4>Elementor Templates</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5x3Uzcs2Oz4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>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:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>When you go to insert a block/widget, select the <strong>Elementor Library</strong> widget. Choose a template from the dropdown menu. Click “Save.”</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Navigate to <strong>Templates > Saved Templates</strong>. Copy the shortcode next to the template you want to insert. Now you’ll insert a <strong>Shortcode</strong> block into the widget area, and paste the shortcode.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>For more information, see the article in <a href="https://elementor.com/help/how-to-use-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Elementor’s knowledge base</a>.</p>
<h3>Widget Area CSS Class Names</h3>
<p>If you need to target the widget areas to apply custom styles using CSS, you can use the following class names.</p>
<p>All widget areas have the <code>.ldx-widget-area</code> class.</p>
<ul>
<li>Focus Mode: Sidebar: Above Navigation – <code>.ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-before</code></li>
<li>Focus Mode: Sidebar: After Navigation – <code>.ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-after</code></li>
<li>Focus Mode: Content: Start – <code>.ldx-widget-area.fm-content-start</code></li>
<li>Focus Mode: Below Content – <code>.ldx-widget-area.fm-content-bottom</code></li>
<li>Course Page: Content: Start – <code>.ldx-widget-area.course-content-start</code></li>
<li>Course Page: Content: End – <code>.ldx-widget-area.course-content-end</code></li>
<li>Group Page: Content: Start – <code>.ldx-widget-area.group-content-start</code></li>
<li>Group Page: Content: End – <code>.ldx-widget-area.group-content-end</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Example Usage:</p>
<pre><code>.ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-before {
    margin: 1em;
}
</code></pre>
<p>This would add 1em of spacing around the widget area that appears above the navigation in the Focus Mode sidebar.</p>
<p>In addition, all widgets placed inside of a widget area have a class of <code>.ldx-widget</code>.</p>
<h3>Show/Hide Widgets on Certain Devices</h3>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X-5I_JqB3NU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>While not a direct feature of this plugin, you can show/hide widgets on different devices using another free plugin.</p>
<ol>
<li>Install & activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-options/" rel="ugc">Widget Options</a> plugin</li>
<li>Navigate to the widget that you’d like to adjust the visibility on</li>
<li>Scroll to the bottom and click on the tab with the mobile phone</li>
<li>Choose to either show or hide on the checked devices</li>
<li>Check the appropriate devices</li>
<li>Click “Save”</li>
</ol>
<h3>Show/Hide Widgets on Specific Course/Lesson/Topic Pages</h3>
<p>Another feature of the free Widget Options plugin (mentioned above) is to only show widgets on specific course, lesson, topic or quiz pages.</p>
<ol>
<li>Install & activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-options/" rel="ugc">Widget Options</a> plugin</li>
<li>Navigate to the widget that you’d like to adjust the visibility on</li>
<li>Scroll to the bottom and click on the settings cog icon</li>
<li>Click on the <strong>Logic</strong> tab</li>
<li>In the text box, you can use the <code>is_single()</code> conditional tag to only display that widget on a specific page</li>
<li>Use the ID of the course, lesson, topic or quiz</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="https://ldx.design/find-learndash-course-id/" rel="nofollow ugc">👉 How to find the ID of LearnDash content</a></p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>This would only display the widget on the page with an ID of <code>7</code>:</p>
<pre><code>is_single( '7' )
</code></pre>
<p>If you wanted to display a widget on multiple pages (with IDs of 1, 2 and 3), your code would look like this:</p>
<pre><code>is_single( array( 1, 2, 3 ) )
</code></pre>
<p>There are many more <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress conditional tags</a> you can use.</p>
<h3>From within WordPress</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit “Plugins > Add New”</li>
<li>Search for “Widget Areas for LearnDash”</li>
<li>Click the “Install” button</li>
<li>Click the “Activate” button</li>
<li>Navigate to “Appearance > Widgets” or open the Customizer to start adding blocks/widgets to your new widget areas</li>
</ol>


Widget Areas for LearnDash

Add unlimited blocks/widgets to several areas of LearnDash Focus Mode, plus course & group pages.

Nazmul Ahsan

Codexpert, Inc

Pluggable IO

<p><a href="https://codexpert.io/coschool/" rel="nofollow ugc">CoSchool LMS</a> lets you create a professional online learning platform on any WordPress website. This LMS (Learning Management System) plugin has all the necessary tools to create, manage, and sell your courses. These tools and features make it super easy to build and scale an online learning platform on WordPress.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://codexpert.io/coschool/" rel="nofollow ugc">Official Website</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://help.codexpert.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Help & Support</a></li>
</ul>
<p>You can create an online education platform by creating dynamic courses, chapters, lessons, quizzes, assignments, and do much more with CoSchool LMS. This learning management system will give you access to the core functionalities to create a feature-rich eLearning website. Enjoy the experience of running an online learning platform like Coursera and Udemy by using this WordPress-based LMS plugin. Also, this plugin comes with fantastic add-ons to extend your eLearning platform.</p>
<h3>💥💥 <strong>CORE FEATURES OF THE COSCHOOL LMS PLUGIN</strong></h3>
<p>The core plugin is completely free and has the essential components of the learning management system. These components will make the path of providing education to your students’ supers easy. The core plugin of CoSchool LMS includes the following features to help you create your own online learning platform–</p>
<p>✪ Dynamic course management</p>
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<p>CoSchool LMS lets you create unlimited courses for your online education platform. With this feature, you can add multiple lessons, quizzes, and FAQs to each course. You can even sell online learning courses or offer free courses with this WordPress LMS (Learning Management System) plugin. You can also assign categories, set keywords, and difficulty levels to the courses. The SEO option can be used to do search engine optimization of your courses. You can set meta keywords, meta descriptions, and schema markup with the basic SEO options of CoShool LMS.</p>
<h3>🎓 LESSON CREATION</h3>
<p>The lessons of CoSchool LMS also don’t have any limits while creating them. Lessons can make the courses informative and exciting to the students of your eLearning platform. The lessons have a progress bar that shows the completion percentage of each lesson. The lessons can be offered for free or for a fee. This WordPress LMS (Learning Management System) plugin also has the option to set prerequisites for the lessons. This way students will get to which lesson, quizzes, and assignments need to be completed before accessing a certain lesson. You can set prerequisites for every lesson on your online learning platform.</p>
<h3>🎓 QUIZ MAKER</h3>
<p>The quizzes of CoSchool LMS can make the education process enjoyable and help you evaluate students on your eLearning platform. You can create quizzes for each lesson to make the lessons and courses more interactive. You will get the option to add multiple questions to a quiz, set the type of the questions – true or false, and add MCQs or open texts with this WordPress LMS (Learning Management System) plugin. You can also let the students retake the quizzes and set a deadline for each quiz of your eLearning platform.</p>
<h3>🎓 CREATE COUPONS 🔥</h3>
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<h3>🎓 BUILT-IN-CART 🔥</h3>
<p>CoSchool LMS has a built-in cart system that can integrate with your eLearning website to make the checkout process smooth for your students. You won’t need to have any additional plugins for the cart system of your online learning platform. The built-in cart of this LMS (Learning Management System) plugin will make your online learning platform more lightweight than ever. It can make the checkout process run seamlessly on any device. With the help of the built-in cart, your students will be able to enroll quickly in their preferred courses.</p>
<h3>🎓 CUSTOMIZABLE EMAILS 🔥</h3>
<p>Emails are an inseparable part of a learning management system. The emails can maintain strong communication between you, your instructors, and students on your eLearning website. CoSchool LMS makes the emails more advanced by letting you customize the emails. You will have the ability to customize each email with this WordPress LMS plugin. You can set custom messages for all the important action emails with any coding. The emails of your online learning platform can be more personalized by adding a logo, banner, and CoSchool LMS placeholders.</p>
<h3>🎓 STUDENT DASHBOARD</h3>
<p>The student dashboard is another inseparable part of a learning management system. That’s why we made an interactive student dashboard on CoSchool LMS. Your students can view their overall activity from the front end using the student dashboard. The dashboard includes an overall summary, enrolled courses, wishlist, and transaction history of the students on your eLearning website. Also, they will be able to edit their personal information directly on the student dashboard.</p>
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<h3>🎓 STUDENT MANAGEMENT</h3>
<p>CoSchool LMS has a detailed dashboard with the information of every enrolled student. The dashboard includes a list of all the enrolled students of your online learning platform. The dashboard includes the details of the students including their name, student ID, email, enrolled courses, total spent, and joining date.</p>
<h3>🎓 ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT</h3>
<p>CoSchool LMS has an enrollment dashboard to show you how many students are currently enrolled in your courses. This dashboard has various data including enrollment ID, enrolled course name, student name, course fee, payment ID, enrollment time, and status. It also gives you the capability to cancel an enrollment anytime you want. This is really helpful when you need to cancel invalid or incomplete enrollments.</p>
<h3>🎓 TRANSACTION HISTORY</h3>
<p>The transaction history of the CoSchool LMS plugin will help you to keep track of transactions made by the students. The transaction history has information including the payment ID, transaction amount, student name, payment method, transaction ID, reference, and time of the transaction.</p>
<h3>💥💥 <strong>COSCHOOL ADD-ONS</strong></h3>
<p>CoSchool LMS has <a href="https://codexpert.io/coschool/add-ons/" rel="nofollow ugc">top-notch add-ons</a> to sell courses using numerous payment solutions. You can integrate with WordPress eCommerce solutions including WooCommerce and EDD, grow your platform using membership plugins, let multiple instructors sell their courses on your eLearning platform, and promote multiple courses by offering them in bundles, and much more! You will have more integrations with popular WordPress plugins in the future.</p>
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<p>✒️<a href="https://codexpert.io/coschool/add-ons/stripe-payment/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe payment</a> (Pro) – Sell courses in 135 currencies using Stripe.</p>
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<p>✒️<a href="https://codexpert.io/coschool/add-ons/assignment" rel="nofollow ugc">Course assignments</a> (Free) – Go paperless and get student assignments to evaluate them from anywhere using smart devices.</p>
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<p><strong>Want to try the premium CoSchool add-ons?</strong></p>
<p>We have a fully functional <a href="https://demo.codexpert.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo site</a> for you to try all add-ons and functionalities offered by CoSchool LMS. You can also install other plugins to check the compatibility of CoSchool LMS with other plugins.</p>
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