how to hide a course lifter lms while working on it

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How can I hide a course or membership from the catalog? Since LifterLMS 3.6, you may use custom visibility settings to prevent a course or membership from displaying in their respective catalogs. To prevent a course or membership from displaying in the catalog, utilize either the Search only or Hidden visibility setting.

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How do I display courses in lifterlms?

Oct 11, 2017 · Since LifterLMS 3.6, you may use custom visibility settings to prevent a course or membership from displaying in their respective catalogs. To prevent a course or membership from displaying in the catalog, utilize either the Search only or Hidden visibility setting. For more information see Course and Membership Visibility Settings. Last Updated on October 11, 2017.

Is course_ID required for lifterlms courses?

Mar 15, 2022 · Display courses from a specific Course Category only. Use a category’s “slug”. If omitted, will display courses from all categories. hidden: string: yes: Whether or not courses with a “hidden” visibility should be included. Defaults to “yes” (hidden courses displayed). Switch to “no” to exclude hidden courses. id: int: null

How do I continue a parent course on a lifterlms course?

Sep 13, 2017 · However, every time a student access the course a call to the database is made for each setting there’s a checkbox for. There were almost a dozen settings which means to render a page, almost a dozen calls to the database had to be made.

How do I use lifterlms?

Jul 12, 2017 · Setting: Course item Padding Left. Enter a number (in pixels). This number will be the amount of space between the element’s left border and the content inside of it. Setting: Course item Border Width. Enter a number (in pixels) to define the size of the borders of the element. To hide the border enter “0”. Setting: Course item Border Color

Overview

All of the following code snippets can be added to your functions.php file or to a custom plugin in order to remove visual elements from being displayed on the course page.

Lab: Action Manager

The LifterLMS Lab: Action Manager allows for removal of these actions (and many more) with a simple interface that requires no code to be written. See Action Manager documentation for more information.

Why actions instead of settings?

In LifterLMS 3.0 a number of settings which allowed site admins to toggle the display of various elements in older versions of LifterLMS have been replaced with actions which can be “toggled” via code snippets.

Late Initialization

If you add any of these actions to a theme’s functions.php file you shouldn’t run into any issues, but if you add the code to a custom plugin you may need to add the actions within a function that is called “late” in the request lifecycle.

Membership Restriction

In LifterLMS you can restrict courses to a membership by creating a members only access plan . Members only access plans can be made only available to students active in a membership (or memberships) of your choosing. Please note that members only pricing can be used to create both free and paid access plans.

Restriction of Pages and Blog Posts

You have the option to restrict a page or a (blog) post to a membership when creating the page or post. You can do this in the meta box settings at the right side of the screen.

How to Create Members Only Forums

You can use LifterLMS + bbPress to create a members only forum on your website. For more information click here.

Custom Development

If you are looking for additional types of content restriction you might need custom development. Check out our LifterLMS Experts if you have questions on custom needs.

Overview

The LifterLMS Builder allows you to manage the structure and outline of your courses.

Getting to the builder

You can get to the builder from three different places on the admin panel.

Creating Sections

Sections, the building block of a course, are created and managed only from within the builder.

Creating Lessons

Lessons hold the main content of your course and can be added to the course via the builder just like a section.

Adding Existing Lessons

To add and existing lesson you can click the “Lesson” button under “Course Elements”.

Creating Assignments

Assignments can be added to a lesson via the Builder, for information on creating assignments, see the assignment creation tutorial.

Creating Quizzes

Quizzes can be added to a lesson via the Builder, for information on creating quizzes, see the quiz creation tutorial.

Does LifterLMS have add ons?

LifterLMS advertises a few of their add-ons here. You can see all your add-ons as well as what's available to you. Some of these add-ons are incredibly powerful and will give your users a custom experience.

What is LifterLMS?

LifterLMS is a WordPress LMS plugin. In case you're not sure what an LMS is, it stands for learning management system and allows you to deploy an online course on your website. An LMS will help you set-up the content, manage users, and track their results.

What is LifterLMS plugin?

LifterLMS is a WordPress LMS plugin. In case you’re not sure what an LMS is, it stands for learning management system and allows you to deploy an online course on your website. An LMS will help you set-up the content, manage users, and track their results. I used the 30-day demo for this LifterLMS review.

Is LifterLMS a WordPress plugin?

Since LifterLMS is a WordPress plugin you’ll navigate a typical WordPress site in the admin. Once you log in, you’ll see all the standard WordPress links like your Dashboard, Posts, Media, and Pages. You can add and edit posts and pages right from the admin just like you would normally do.

What is membership tab?

The memberships tab allows you to restrict your site by membership level. This means you can allow access to the site only to users who have a specific membership level. They'll be able to view and purchase a membership level right from your site. If you have a collection of courses and would like your learners to gain access to all (or a portion) of them depending on their membership level, you can do that from this screen.

What information is required at checkout?

You can decide exactly what information is required at checkout. You can ask for first and last name, address, phone number, and ask for an email confirmation.

What is sales screen?

The sales screen shows the number of sales you've made along with the total number of refunds given, and a few more bits of information for a selected date range. A graph of the sales information is provided.