Dave Warfel

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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.
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<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>
Requires the “LearnDash 3.0” Active Template. Tested with LearnDash 4.23.
<h3>How to Use</h3>
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.
<h3>Types of Content to Add</h3>
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.
<ul>
<li>Add a simple Paragraph block with some basic text</li>
<li>Add an Image or Video/Embed block for more visual content</li>
<li>Add a Navigation Menu widget to insert a custom menu you’ve created</li>
<li>Add your own Custom HTML widget to embed an <code><iframe></code> or write your own code</li>
</ul>
TIP: You can use the LearnDash Student and LearnDash Visitor blocks to display a block’s contents only to enrolled students or unenrolled visitors.
<h4>LearnDash Widgets</h4>
LearnDash comes prepackaged with a few widgets, but there’s probably only one that makes sense in these widget areas.
<ul>
<li>Add a Course Progress Bar to the top or bottom of your Focus Mode sidebar</li>
</ul>
Feel free to experiment with the other <a href="https://learndash.com/support/kb/core/design/widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash widgets</a>.
<h4>Elementor Templates</h4>
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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:
<ol>
<li>
When you go to insert a block/widget, select the Elementor Library widget. Choose a template from the dropdown menu. Click “Save.”
</li>
<li>
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.
</li>
</ol>
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>.
<h3>Widget Area CSS Class Names</h3>
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 <code>.ldx-widget-area</code> class.
<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>
Example Usage:
<pre><code>.ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-before {
 margin: 1em;
}
</code></pre>
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 <code>.ldx-widget</code>.
<h3>Show/Hide Widgets on Certain Devices</h3>
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While not a direct feature of this plugin, you can show/hide widgets on different devices using another free plugin.
<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>
Another feature of the free Widget Options plugin (mentioned above) is to only show widgets on specific course, lesson, topic or quiz pages.
<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 Logic 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>
<a href="https://ldx.design/find-learndash-course-id/" rel="nofollow ugc">👉 How to find the ID of LearnDash content</a>
Example:
This would only display the widget on the page with an ID of <code>7</code>:
<pre><code>is_single( '7' )
</code></pre>
If you wanted to display a widget on multiple pages (with IDs of 1, 2 and 3), your code would look like this:
<pre><code>is_single( array( 1, 2, 3 ) )
</code></pre>
There are many more <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress conditional tags</a> you can use.
<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>

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