Setup Quicktips

This section comprises of short video tutorials to quickly setup various functionalities in the theme.

WPLMS Essentials

BuddyPress Setup

WooCommerce Setup

Importing Demo Slider

Management Quicktips

These are Management quicktips. These are general tips which explain the working and management of WPLMS.

PageBuilder Advanced Settings

Edit Course Categories

Certificate Templates : Creating and Connecting

Administrator Quicktips

These are quicktips for Administrator. Since Administrator comes with several accesses. These tips are essential to change different values in WPLMS.

Making a Instructor

How an Administrator can create an Instructor by changing the user role of a registered user from student to Instructor.

Adding Student to a Course

Adding Students to a course from the Administrator only settings panel without purchasing the course.

Increase Students Subscription time for a course

Learn how an Administrator can increase the subscription duration of a course for a particular student. The subscription duration to be increased should be pre-calculated in number of sections. example 1 day = 86400 seconds.

Changing Students Marks in a Course

Learn how an Administrator can change marks for particular students for particular course.

Assigning Badge to a Student

Learn how an Administrator can assign badges for any course to any student on an ad-hoc basis, without the student appearing for the course.

Assigning Certificate to a Student

Lean how an administrator can assign certificates to a student on an ad-hoc basis, without student taking the course.

Coding Quicktips

These tips require code level changes and mostly require WPLMS Customizer plugin.

How to use coding tips:click here

All the tips/solutions are shared here :click here

Changing Course Menu

You need to have the WPLMS Customizer plugin running and installed in your system.

Follow below steps to change the course menu :

  1. Locate file customizer_class.php in wplms-customizer->classes folder
  2. Add a line (or verify) in the __construct function
    
        add_filter('wplms_course_nav_menu',array($this,'wplms_course_nav_menu'));
  3. Locate/Add function wplms_course_nav_menu
  4. To remove a section from the menu: like removing members, unset the variable members from the function
    
        function wplms_course_nav_menu($menu_array){
            unset($menu_array['members']);
            return $menu_array;
        }
  5. To Add a external link in Menus: 
    
        function wplms_course_nav_menu($menu_array){
            $menu_array['external_link']=array(
                                'id' => 'external_link',
                                'label'=>__('My Custom Link','vibe'),
                                'action' => 'members', // Optional remove if you do not want to send any parameters
                                'link'=> 'http://www.mycustom-url.com'
                            );
            return $menu_array;
        }

Change Free Course Label

You need to have the WPLMS Customizer plugin running and installed in your system.

Follow below steps to change the course menu :

  1. Locate file customizer_class.php in wplms-customizer->classes folder
  2. Locate function wplms_free_course_price
  3.       
            function wplms_free_course_price($price_text){
                $price_text= 'Livre';
                return $price_text;
            }

Hide Print unit button

You need to have the WPLMS Customizer plugin running and installed in your system.

Follow below steps to change the course menu :

  1. Locate file customizer_class.php in wplms-customizer->classes folder
  2. Locate function wplms_unit_print_button
  3. 
      function wplms_unit_print_button($print_html){
            return '';
        }

Changing Read More limit in Course

You need to have the WPLMS Customizer plugin running and installed in your system.

A read more link is shown in the course description page, clicking on this button expands the remaining content of course description and a Less link appears. This tip shows how you can change the limit of the course description content shown before the read more link appears.

Follow below steps to change the read more limit in course description page :

  1. Locate file customizer_class.php in wplms-customizer->classes folder
  2. Add the following line in the function public function __construct()
  3. 
      add_filter('wplms_course_excerpt_limit',array($this,'wplms_course_excerpt_limit'),1,1);

  4. Paste the below function at the end of the class:

    
      function wplms_course_excerpt_limit($no){
            $no= 120;  // Set the limit in number of characters to be shown before the read more link {default: 1200}
            return $no;
        }

Conditionally Hide Profile Certificates and Badges

You need to have the WPLMS Customizer plugin running and installed in your system.

If you want to Hide the Badges and Certificates section in the Profile. You can control the visibility using some custom code.
Follow below steps to control the Certificates and Badges visibility :

  1. Locate file customizer_class.php in wplms-customizer->classes folder
  2. Add the following line in the function public function __construct()
  3. 
      add_action('bp_init',array($this,'manage_profile_snapshot'));
  4. Add the following function at the bottom of the class, to remove this section altogether: 
    
      function manage_profile_snapshot(){
            if(!bp_is_my_profile()) // Check if user Is viewing her own profile
                remove_action('bp_before_profile_content','show_profile_snapshot');
        }
    To make this section visible to Instructors & Administrators Only 
    
      function manage_profile_snapshot(){
            if(!bp_is_my_profile() && !current_user_can('edit_posts')) // Check for Instructors and Administrators
                remove_action('bp_before_profile_content','show_profile_snapshot');
        }
    To make this section visible to Friends, Instructors and Administrators.

    Make sure Friendships is enabled in BuddyPress->Components

    
      function manage_profile_snapshot(){
          global $bp, $friends_template;
          $friend_status = friends_check_friendship_status( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $bp->displayed_user->id );
          if(!bp_is_my_profile() && !current_user_can('edit_posts') && $friend_status != 'is_friend') // Check for Instructors and Administrators
                remove_action('bp_before_profile_content','show_profile_snapshot');
        }

Change Instructor Button

You can remove and place your custom content in place of the Become an Instructor button.

You need to have the WPLMS Customizer plugin running and installed in your system.

Follow below steps to remove and change the Instructor button.

  1. Locate file customizer_class.php in wplms-customizer->classes folder
  2. Add the following line in the function public function __construct()
  3. 
            add_action('bp_init',array($this,'wplms_remove_instructor_button'));  // Removes the Become and Instructor Button
            add_action('wplms_be_instructor_button',array($this,'wplms_be_instructor_button')); // Adds Extra function to run in place of Instructor button
  4. Add the following function at the bottom of the class 
    
        /**
         * Instructor Button Location
         */
        function wplms_be_instructor_button(){
               //Echo something to show in place of instructor button
               //Example show a image banner
               echo '<a href="#target_URL"><img src="#Target_IMAGE_SOURCE" alt="#TARGET_IMAGE_ALT" /></a>';
        }

Display Free label in Course thumbnail

You need to have the WPLMS Customizer plugin running and installed in your system.

Follow below steps to change the course menu :

  1. Locate file customizer_class.php in wplms-customizer->classes folder
  2. Locate function _construct and add the following line in it
  3. 
      add_filters('vibe_thumb_featured_image',array($this,'vibe_thumb_heading'),1,2);
  4. Now add the following function at the bottom of the class: 
    
      function vibe_thumb_featured_image($featured_html,$featured_style){
            // Code to Add a Free label over courses
            if($featured_style == 'course'){ // Just a validation check

                 $course_id=get_the_ID();
                 $free_course = false;
                 $free_course=get_post_meta($course_id,'vibe_course_free',true);
                 if(function_exists('vibe_validate') && vibe_validate($free_course)){
                        $featured_html .='FREE';
                 }
            }
            return $featured_html;
        }