susanmarco

@bryonmathf I can answer as I have been with LearnDash for nearly one year and am running multiple courses.

In short, yes, I believe in your case that Learn Dash is overkill. There is quite a curve as well and it is inflexible. There are whacky workarounds for login/logouts and I just found it to be quirky.

It is indeed a monster of an LMS and I can see why they are always up in the #1 and #2 recommendations.

I have been running tests with WPComplete Pro as I prepare to buy the pro version. We have hundreds of lessons in LearnDash and have been running it for about 9 months.

My experience has been that the notifications function, this is the part of the LMS that sends out emails based on certain triggers is extremely buggy. I spent over, wait for it SEX MONTHS back and forth with support and it was never resolved,

Example, I wanted a particular course to always start on a Monday, if someone bought on Friday, there was no way to “hold” them in a queue without spending more than TWICE what WPComplete Pro costs. To be fair, I am not sure WPComplete Pro offers that functionality either, but, I had to wait until 12:15 AM on a Monday morning and manually assign the student to the course.

Now, if a student came in at say 11 AM on Monday morning to register, there was no way to roll back the email times to fire earlier. Meaning, If I wanted that 11 am person to get that notification email earlier going forward so the lesson would be there as soon as they wake up, the LearnDash notification plugin, despite repeated attempts would not work to send future notifications earlier.

One of the things I often do before trying a new piece of software is spending some time in the Facebook community pages. When you see considerable confusion day after day, that is a sign. It happens with new users as well as seasoned ones.

In my case I was never able to get Woo Commerce to play nice with Learn Dash and I had to process my sales manually. Very frustrating.

I laid out what I wanted to do with Zack here and he has been OUTSTANDING in answering all of my questions.

LearnDash is amazing if it is what you need. I hope this is helpful
Marco

PS!

When someone clicks on Mark As Completed if I do not want them to advance to the next lesson, I believe I read in your documentation that I can redirect them to anywhere I like?
Thank you again

Thank you again, I found out what I was doing wrong. Free is sweet, but we need to go PRO ??

I was JUST about to hit the Upgrade to PRO button when I realized I am working on a mockup site. The PRO licence is good for one site I think? So I need to work on the actual site. That site is “live” and has active members, so I need to work without disturbing anything.

THE MODEL:

We are with LearnDash and are leaving. No bad reflection on them, just overkill, some bugs that are vital to us and never got fixed and a little stiff as far as functionality for us. K, I said I was gonna be nice. Shutting up and moving on….

Upon leaving and buying WPC

We have a monthly video membership site running with Paid Memberships Pro. Some of the content is freewheeling, basically, the client can choose whatever they want in any order.

BUT… there are those who want structure, and this is where we need to track their progress daily as there are specific lessons on specific dates and they also need to feel the “click of the mouse I did it” sensation. I know, hokey, bear with me. So these are our a la carte programs. let’s call them.

Think of it like streaming a show on Netflix and watching the episodes in any order you like, or, instead, having to watch them in order and not being able to get the next episode until you have watched the previous. I know you have a redirect after WPC button is clicked in PRO.

In other words, we need both of these options to live happily under one roof. We would use WPC on some, but not on others. The site is clean and fast, on fumes setup. Does what I am laying out here make sense and do you think it would work?

Thank you so very much for your time.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by susanmarco.

Hello Zack, mega impressed to hear from you directly and this quickly, thank you.
We are working through some final migration nightmares, how to workflow as we are talking about embedding hundreds of videos and exporting content from LearnDash to then import and govern it all with WPComplete.

Thank you again. Can you please point me to somewhere that teaches the Free version setup? I have downloaded the free version just to see how it works in general, but I see nowhere in a block or otherwise to select the WPComplete option on the page or post. I do not want to take your time from paying customers, I respect them and you, if you could just point me to some documentation and I will go through it.

Thank you again, I am really hoping this is our new and final solution ??