How To Save Time By Using Templates With LifterLMS + Elementor + Lifter Elements 2019

[@chrisbadgett1837]

Great video Will!

[@WPCourseGuide]

Thank you!

[@ScriptMasterCoaching]

Will, can you please please explain how the hell I make LifterLMS work with my dark astra theme? I'm using Elementor and I've a lost a week trying to make this work with LifterLMS Labs and Elementor - with no sidebars displaying and nothing aligning correctly either. I'm so baffled!

[@teachermjacademy7594]

Awesome! Can I use the Elementor Hello theme with LifterLMS? Will the sidebar issue be fixed using the Labs or the sidebar snippet thingy in the LifterLMS documentation?

[@WPCourseGuide]

Hello, you can use the Elementor Hello theme with LifterLMS. You don't really need LifterLMS sidebars with the Elementor template system I demonstrate in this video. You can just add your own sidebar in on the template by having a second column that you populate with any info you'd like.

[@teachermjacademy7594]

Will Middleton - WPCourseGuide sweet! Thanks for that! That solves all the problems I have!!! I actually would like to make the "sidebar" that has the course syllabus and progress bar "hidden" so the student can have distraction-free learning. I want to put small icons that pop up with the syllabus information when tapped/clicked.

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@teachermjacademy7594 Sounds great! In this video I do show how to create popups triggered by buttons if you'd like to check that out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHnIiXyveMiqoq8 (I am using them on the student dashboard in this video, but the same concept can be applied to your lesson template.)

[@thesculpturechannel5974]

Hello Will, somehow I can't see "lessons" in the dropdown menu of the display conditions. Only "Course" and its subcategories, but no "lessons". Any suggestions on how to solve this? Thank you

[@WPCourseGuide]

Hello, do you have the Tangible: Lifter Elements plugin installed on your site? Some users have another LifterLMS + Elementor integration that doesn't allow for the templates on the lesson feature. If you can check for the Tangible: Lifter Elements plugin, I think that may be the issue

[@thesculpturechannel5974]

@@WPCourseGuide Hello, I can't seem to find the Tangible plugin. When typing it in the search bar for new plugins it does not appear.

[@WPCourseGuide]

Hello, the Tangible plugin isn't on the WordPress free plugins listing unfortunately, that is a paid product from Tangible Inc: wpcourseguide.com/lifterelements

[@adrianlachance9318]

Do you need the paid subscription of Lifter elements in order to make elementor work?

[@WPCourseGuide]

You don't need Lifter Elements in order to activate the Elementor builder on Lessons/Courses (you can do that with the free Elementor tool via this method: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5_MY5iMeKl4nJY ) But Lifter Elements is necessary for that templates for lessons feature that allows you to make a template and apply it to all lessons, so you don't have to manually style each one. It's not that hard initially to style your template, then go into every lesson copying that template, but if you wanted to make one change to your template, you would have to do that on every lesson if you're doing each lesson manually.

[@adrianlachance9318]

@@WPCourseGuide Thanks for your quick response! I applied the changes on the video you attached but there's a limited view in elementor that only displays an "Enter your shortcut" and wont let me edit anything else

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@adrianlachance9318 You're welcome! ... I don't believe I've seen that message before. I'm not sure what a shortcut is. I'd probably recommend reaching out to LifterLMS support on that. You should be able to easily activate the Elementor editor and edit any lessons or courses, but they'd be able to help you figure out what could be conflicting with that

[@adrianlachance9318]

@@WPCourseGuide Will do! thx for the help mate!

[@crowe5130]

Hello, useful information, however, I cannot find the tangible plug in?

[@crowe5130]

Never mind. I figured it out. No longer need the extra plug in. I just checked the course and lessons on elementor and done! Thank you again!

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@crowe5130 Sure, no problem. The Tangible plugin is super useful for templates on courses and lessons, so if you want to make one change to all lessons, you can do it from one place instead of editing each lesson individually. It also has some advanced design features, but you can activate the general Elementor editor without the Tangible plugin

[@biggunrgc]

Will, great videos! Quick question. When creating a lesson template in Elementor, all works well UNLESS you have a quiz. The quiz button does not show on the quiz lesson. Its blank. Any idea?

[@WPCourseGuide]

Thanks! Do you have the 'Mark Complete' widget in your Elementor template? That's the largest culprit I could think of. The 'take quiz' function uses that 'mark complete' widget to display.

[@biggunrgc]

@@WPCourseGuide Will, thanks much for the prompt reply. That fixed it, however the quiz errors and says not found. Should the elementor lesson template be single page template or post type template

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@biggunrgc Glad to hear you were able to get that one sorted out - the lesson template should be a 'Single Post' type. I believe you can even use Elementor Templates on quizzes (the same 'Single Post' option as well) if you wanted to inject content above or below the 'Content Area'

[@JanoMihalik]

Hi Will! To what extent is it possible to edit the tiles of the courses at the course catalog page? (with Lifter Elements and/or Elementor pro)

[@WPCourseGuide]

Hello, Lifter Elements offers a module for the courses that allows you to display courses and modify things like the description and some fairly advanced layout settings. But I often manually create a course catalog by manually building things with Elementor columns and formatting them however I'd like to as that gives you total control of the layout. But I would recommend trying out the courses module from Lifter Elements to see if that gets you to where you want to be with your course catalog area.

[@JanoMihalik]

@@WPCourseGuide many thanks for your answer and for all wonderful tutorials you make!

[@beadamicowriting]

Hi! Is it possible to just add my LifterLMS Course Catalog to the nav menu I already created with Elementor Pro?

[@WPCourseGuide]

Hello, you can always add a custom page to the nav menu if you made a custom course catalog Is that the question your asking there? Or if you're using a nav menu block from Elementor Pro, you can add the catalog as a page to that menu under wp-admin > Appearance > Menus

[@beadamicowriting]

It was the second one, thank you!@@WPCourseGuide

[@RandomVideos-ns7rd]

How can i create a custom course page in elementor, i want to show lessons side by side as a video

[@WPCourseGuide]

Hello, I don't know of any way unfortunately to run lessons side by side with a course, such as importing the lesson content to that course page. With LifterLMS, the user does have to head over to the lesson page itself

[@JesseGuthrie]

Hey! My single post type isn't showing lessons as an option - do you have to set it up? Thanks!

[@WPCourseGuide]

Hi Jesse, in order for that to show up you need to have Tangible: Lifter Elements installed. Do you have that plugin installed and activated on your site?

[@lauramcsharry2442]

@@WPCourseGuide I have lifter elements and all the recommended plugins but still don't have lessons in the dropdown only page. Will this do the same thing?

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@lauramcsharry2442 Are you referring to the dropdown where it asks what post type you want to add a template for? < single < lesson < template title

[@lauramcsharry2442]

@@WPCourseGuide Hi Will, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. My mistake I hadn't got the lifterElements that I thought I had. By the way your videos are amazing thank you so much

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@lauramcsharry2442 No problem! I'm glad they're able to help you out!

[@JeenieJolie]

"Single" is no longer available and I'm feeling so stuck! would the course be considered a single page maybe? . . . single lessons are posts

[@WPCourseGuide]

I think Single Post works for that now. Let me know if that works for you

[@JeenieJolie]

@@WPCourseGuide Thank you much!

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@JeenieJolie You're welcome! Glad to hear that works for you

[@Mohahajico]

Thank you very much, I can finanly have concistance and tons of custimization in my lessons.

[@WPCourseGuide]

I'm glad you liked the video! I'll be making more things you can do with Lifter Elements soon and some templates as well

[@Mohahajico]

@@WPCourseGuide thank you

[@Mohahajico]

@@WPCourseGuide is it posible to build tampletes for lessons in spacific course instead of all lessons on the website, in the conditional logic. I haven't got the time to exprienment it

[@WPCourseGuide]

@@Mohahajico Hi Mohamed. Absolutely. There are a few different ways to accomplish that. In this video I set the display condition to 'all lessons'. The easiest method out of the box is to set the display condition to say, include all lessons by author x. And then change the author of those lessons to author x.

[@WPCourseGuide]

You can also exclude lesson by author in your main template in those display settings

[@mihalyfreeman5928]

You conveniently FORGOT to mention that Tangable or ible costs money. Hmm really? These elements should be FREE. You should not have to buy it separately.

[@WPCourseGuide]

There are some free Elementor + LifterLMS integrations out there like Liftor wordpress.org/plugins/liftor/ - but for the Lifter Elements plugins that have a lot of support and features, the developers have decided to charge for their product.