Super useful with LearnDash LMS

This is an amazing addition to any LearnDash LMS site and highly recommended for all elearning projects.

Thank goodness for WPDeveloper! The Essential Blocks is a God send for getting attractive content into LearnDash lessons easily and quickly. I haven’t ordered the paid version yet but I will soon. It includes the ability to work with Advanced Custom Fields, a feature I want to add to my LearnDash lessons so that I can eventually control the lesson layout and use a frontend tool to have more junior staff add lesson content to courses quickly.

I have been struggling to get LearnDash setup with Elementor templates. It is tricky to get an elementor template setup properly with LearnDash content types such as Lessons. Trying to add actual content to courses, lessons, and topics is an even bigger pain as the elementor interface is not intended for typing and adding “static-y” content, it is meant for “layout” only. In general, the core problem is the co-mingling of formatting and data, but that is a generalized problem with this whole WordPress ecosystem. It is though exacerbated with elementor.

With Elementor and LearnDash you find yourself in a constant “struggle session” with two tools that really don’t like the idea of working together, despite their old 2020 announcement of a “partnership”. On a positive note, elementor is very helpful with dynamic content and can do a good job with things like Advanced Custom Fields, allowing you to add things like short code snippets before/after the ACF content entry.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by trainingcity. Reason: minor