How Certifier integrates with LearnDash
Install Certifier for LearnDash directly on your WordPress site — the plugin watches for course completions and reports them straight to Certifier, with no Zapier or middle step in between.
Map a course to your chosen credential template once, and Certifier takes care of the rest — issuing and emailing the certificate or badge as soon as a learner completes it.
How Certifier integrates with LearnDash
Available workflows (1)
Setup steps
- 1
Install the Certifier for LearnDash plugin on your WordPress site, either through the plugin directory or by uploading it directly.
- 2
In Certifier, generate an access token, then paste it into the plugin's settings to connect the two accounts.
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Open the plugin's course mapping screen and pair each LearnDash course with the credential template it should award.
- 4
Run a test through with one learner account, then check that the credential lands in their inbox before opening the course up to everyone else.
Resources and manuals
Key benefits
Automate issuing on course completions
No shortcodes and no manually compiled learner lists — a certificate goes out the moment a mapped course is marked complete, learner by learner.
Instantly verifiable credentials
Every credential issued with Certifier comes with its own verification page, so recipients and employers can confirm it is genuine in seconds, without back-and-forth emails.
Quick setup
Install the Certifier for LearnDash plugin, connect it with an access token, and let course completions trigger issuing from there.
Is this integration right for you?
Use this integration to automate credential issuance right after the LearnDash course is finished.
Course creators
Set up a Credential Template once per course, and every learner who passes gets a personalized certificate in their inbox, no manual sending required.
Online academies
Map credentials per course across your catalog, and keep design and delivery consistent no matter how many courses or cohorts you're running.
Customer education
Turn a completed course into a record your team can pull up and confirm on demand, instead of tracking who's certified in a separate spreadsheet.
Frequently asked questions
LearnDash's builder works inside the WordPress block editor, where you assemble a layout from scratch and pull in student and course data through blocks or shortcodes.
There's no template library, and the preview rarely matches what actually prints. Certifier replaces that with easily customizable templates, dynamic attributes, and a credential that includes a QR code and a verification link upon issuance.
No account is needed either way. Once Certifier issues the credential, it goes straight to the learner's email as a link to a verifiable digital credential page.
LearnDash's own certificate link on the course page isn't part of that flow, so if you're using Certifier to issue, there's nothing for the learner to claim inside LearnDash itself.
Yes. A WordPress plugin connects the two directly, using a Certifier access token rather than a third-party automation tool. If you need triggers beyond course completion — lesson, topic, quiz, or group completion — Zapier is the path that supports those instead.
Certifier's Starter plan is free and includes every integration, with 250 credentials allowed a year. Programs issuing more than that need a paid plan.
