Description
Kibworks Student Dashboard gives LearnDash students one place to see everything about their learning, without sending them into wp-admin.
Add the shortcode [kibworks_student_dashboard] to any page and students get a sidebar dashboard with four sections:
- Dashboard — enrolled course count, steps completed, certificates earned, average completion rate, and a “continue learning” list.
- My Courses — every enrolled course with its progress bar and a resume button that links to the exact lesson or topic they left off at.
- Certificates — earned certificates ready to download, and locked ones with a link back into the course.
- Profile — first name, last name, email, phone and password, editable from the front end.
The sections use clean URLs off the page you place the shortcode on, for example /dashboard/courses/ and /dashboard/profile/.
Styling
Every colour is a CSS custom property you can set from the settings screen, along with the two Google Fonts used, your logo, and which tabs are visible. Nothing is hard-coded, so the dashboard can be made to match your theme.
Requirements
LearnDash must be installed and active. If it is not, the shortcode renders a notice instead of the dashboard.
Third-party services
This plugin loads the two selected fonts from Google Fonts (https://fonts.googleapis.com) so the dashboard renders with your chosen typography. No data other than the standard font request is sent. Google’s terms are at https://policies.google.com/terms and its privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. No other external service is contacted, and all images and scripts are bundled with the plugin.
Not affiliated with LearnDash
This is an independent add-on. LearnDash is a trademark of Liquid Web, LLC, and this plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by them.
Installation
- Install and activate LearnDash.
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/, or install the zip through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. - Activate the plugin.
- Create a page and add the shortcode
[kibworks_student_dashboard]. - Adjust colours, fonts, logo and tabs under LearnDash LMS > Student Dashboard.
FAQ
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The section URLs give a 404
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The section URLs are rewrite endpoints, registered when the plugin activates. If they 404, deactivate and reactivate the plugin, or visit Settings > Permalinks and press Save, which rebuilds the rules.
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It already links to the first lesson or topic the student has not completed. When everything is done it links to the course itself.
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Can students change their email address?
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Yes, from the Profile tab. An address already used by another account is rejected.
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No. Hiding it is off by default and can be switched on in the settings if you prefer students not to see it.
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Contributors & Developers
“Kibworks Student Dashboard for LearnDash” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Renamed the plugin and all of its internals to the Kibworks namespace. The shortcode is now
[kibworks_student_dashboard]. - Fixed a serious bug where passwords were passed through
sanitize_text_field(). Passwords containing<,>, tabs or leading and trailing spaces were altered before being saved or checked, which could lock a user out of their own account. - Fixed profile and password forms being processed during page output, which prevented the login cookie from being set after a password change.
- Fixed the sidebar overlay and other colours never rendering, because
transparentandrgba()values were discarded by the colour sanitizer and produced empty CSS declarations. - Fixed the section endpoints not being registered on activation, which made
/courses/,/certificates/and/profile/return 404 on a fresh install. - Replaced the remote placeholder image service with a bundled image, so the plugin no longer depends on a third-party host.
- Hiding the admin bar is now an opt-in setting instead of being applied to the whole site automatically.
- Font names and colour values are now sanitized before being written into inline CSS.
- Escaped remaining attribute output and made the admin menu labels translatable.
- Added a translation template in
/languages. - Removed an unused duplicate stylesheet.
1.0.0
- Initial release.