LearnDash Login & Registration

There are many ways to handle an existing user’s login and new user’s registration process. LearnDash has always provided great flexibility for you to choose how to handle this. As of version 3.0, you’ll find a built-in login and registration process. You no longer need a third-party plugin to create a seamless login and/or registration process for your users.

Walkthrough Video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4PJKUIUsurs%3Ffeature%3Doembed

There are four important steps in order to enable LearnDash login and registration:

You must be using LearnDash 3.0 or higher
You must select LearnDash 3.0 as your active template
You need to enable the Login and Registration option in the LearnDash general settings
IMPORTANT: You need to enable registration for your WordPress site by selecting the Anyone Can Register checkbox located under Settings > General(only necessary if you want to allow registration)

Enable LearnDash login & registration in settings

While not required, we recommend uploading a logo to use on the login screen. This logo will appear below the login form. To upload a logo:

Navigate to LearnDash LMS > Settings
In the Design and Content Elements section, look for Logo Upload
Click the Select image button
Choose an image from your Media Library, or upload a new one
Click Use this image at the bottom
Be sure to save your changes

You can remove your image by clicking the X, or upload a new one by repeating the steps above.

How It Works

The native LearnDash Login and Registration works in a few different ways, depending on the following:

Whether or not the user is currently logged in
The access mode assigned to the course

NOTE: LearnDash Login and Registration does not affect the default WordPress login page located at yoursite.com/wp-login.php. You can still use a third-party plugin to customize the default WordPress login page, and users can still login that way.

Logged In Users

Logged in users will never see a login link because they are already logged in.

If the user has access to the course, they’ll see a progress bar at the top of the page, and be able to navigate through the course steps
If the user is logged in but does not have access to the course, they’ll see the “Take this Course” button

Open and Closed Courses

These course access modes will never show a login link, and thus will never use this feature.

Open courses are available to everyone, even those not logged in. Since it is not necessary to login to view these courses, no login link is shown.
Closed courses are most commonly used for integrating with a third-party ecommerce or membership plugin. Login and course access is usually handled via the third-party plugin.

Free Courses

Visitors viewing a course with access mode set to “Free” will see a Login to Enroll button. Upon clicking this button, a registration form will appear for the user to sign up for an account to gain access to the course (or login if they already have an account).

LearnDash free course, login to enroll button

Buy Now and Recurring Courses

Visitors viewing a course with access mode set to Buy Now or Recurring will see a login link in the Take this Course section. If the user has already purchased and enrolled into the course, they can use the Login link to open the registration form and sign into their account. If not, they can click the Take this Course button to pay via your configured payment gateway (Stripe, PayPal or 2Checkout) or use our optional new registration flow.

Introduced in LearnDash 3.6, the registration flow for the native LearnDash registration page acts like traditional eCommerce platforms with a registration and checkout page. Users may also register using this new method without purchasing a course.

This new registration flow no longer asks the users to set their password separately from an email after purchasing a course. Once the registration process is done, they will be redirected to a specific page based on the following rules:

If the per course redirect is set the user will be redirected to the specified redirect URL.
If it is not set they will be redirected to the option in the payment gateway settings (per the payment gateway).
If that isn’t set we use the registration success option from the new registration tab.

Check out our detailed article here regarding the Registration Tab.

Shortcode Option

If you would like to use the log-in modal pop-up somewhere other than a course page, then you can do so by using the following shortcode:

[learndash_login]

You can place this shortcode onto a regular WordPress page, post, widget (for the sidebar), and it will display a Login link for visitors, and a Logout link for anyone who is logged-in.

When a visitor clicks on the Login link, the LearnDash Login and Registration modal will appear.

Using The Shortcode as a Menu Item

If you want to add the Login and Registration modal as a WordPress menu item then it is possible by adding a custom link to your menu.

Navigate to Appearance > Menus
Select the desired menu location
At the top right of the screen, select the Screen Options tab
Select all options under Show advanced menu properties
Under the Add Menu Items section, select Custom Links
— In the URL field, add #login
— In the Link Text field, add Login. The Link Text is not what will be shown in the menu. That will be configured in Step 7.
Click Add to Menu
Expand the new menu item and add the following:
— In the CSS Classes (optional) field, add ld-button
— In the Description field, add [learndash_login login_label="Login" logout_label="Logout"]
— You can change the labels for login and logout here. Just change the text in between the "".
Click Save Menu

Setting Up WordPress User Registration

In this webinar we will show you how to easily configure a better experience for your students. Whether you are using LearnDash or not, these tips will help you get your WordPress user registration just right!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-fHRpTUnQRM%3Ffeature%3Doembed

If you are looking into customizing your User Registration process even further (i.e. making it more aesthetically pleasing, leveraging sign-ups for success, and even going as far as changing and updating your email notification options) here is a follow-up webinar that talks about Advanced User Registration with LearnDash.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=isW6XwtNMXM%3Ffeature%3Doembed