Custom Categories

@theologian88,

I’m not exactly certain what you mean by a Custom Course ID and how that relates to custom categories. We have course categories but no we do not have a way to display the course category on a certificate.

You could very easily just add the category to the certificate though, right? It would mean you’d need a different cert for each category but it would work within the confines of the features LifterLMS has available.

We only have a small set of merge codes available for certificates but I haven’t seen many requests for additional ones. You need a merge code for the course’s category to display on the certificate, is that the feature you’re looking for?

The purpose of course categories is to allow your students to browse course’s by subject (or however you decide you want to organize them) and we’ve never intended a course category to have any real relationship to certificates. Course Categories are more or less the same in concept to the blog post categories standard in WordPress, except they’re used for your courses. Does that help and make sense?

I think you’re confusing terms. I’m not talking about “course categories”, I’m talking about “custom categories”. It’s a specific section if scroll down near the bottom when editing a course. This is not specific to Lifter. It’s a wordpress core function.

When I say custom ID, our accrediting body requires that we assign a specific course number to each class we teach. For example, it would look something like 17-Prime-F3-1234. Only the last four digits are the actual course number. So on the certificate, we would put 17-Prime-F3-[course id shortcode].

I’m trying to figure out how to create and assign a custom course ID, and how to create a custom shortcode to pull that id over to the certificate.

I thought that the “custom categories” might be a key.

@theologian88,

I think you’re confusing terms. I’m not talking about “course categories”, I’m talking about “custom categories”. It’s a specific section if scroll down near the bottom when editing a course. This is not specific to Lifter. It’s a wordpress core function.

Are you referring to “Custom Fields”? If you are seeing custom categories this is maybe something from a plugin as I have never seen a “Custom Categories” area in WordPress.

When I say custom ID, our accrediting body requires that we assign a specific course number to each class we teach. For example, it would look something like 17-Prime-F3-1234. Only the last four digits are the actual course number. So on the certificate, we would put 17-Prime-F3-[course id shortcode].

Gotcha, unfortunately at this moment it seems there are no hooks or filters we can use to add a custom merge code to our certificates. I’m sorry about that — definitely an oversight on my part when it comes to development, I try to filter everything but I forget sometimes. I’ll add a filter so you can add a merge code in a future release.

I added this in GitHub as a feature enhancement and you can track my progress on getting that added here: https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/issues/358

Thanks for your patience in the meantime,