LMS giving paid course access, for free when use is logged in

Hey WPCrafter,

As per our WooCommerce setup instructions you *must* provide a price for the LifterLMS Product otherwise the behavior you’re experiencing *will* happen.

You can read more here but, in short, the “Take this Course” button acts differently for free and paid courses (by design) so the redirect to WooCommerce never occurs if there is no price on the LifterLMS Course as it behaves like a Free Product.

Just add a price the Price to the LLMS Course and you’ll be good to go and sorry for the confusion.

@wpcrafter,

You can always simply add another reply with additional information.

First off, people can always log out. LifterLMS adds a signout link to the “My Courses” page, you can copy that URL and add it to a menu for quicker access to a sign out button.

Second, we’ve been slowly overhauling our enrollment and de-enrollment methods since version 2.0.0. This manual remove function was originally created for Courses and was rapidly ported to Memberships and I have, now obviously, not reviewed that port closely enough before it was shipped. I’m terribly sorry, we’re not fully removing memberships using the manual enrollment functions. I’ll get this fixed immediately (it’s a simple fix). Look for a patch in the next few hours to resolve this.

I’ll post here again when it’s released.

@wpcrafter,

Please give LifterLMS 2.7.6 a try. Unfortunately students you have *already removed* will still be in the limbo position they’re currently in. I tried but I can’t find anyway to create a small migration script to fix this.

However, you can simply add those students manually back to your membership and then immediately remove them and then they’ll be out of the limbo I created for them.

Let me know if you need anything else and thanks for finding this for me.

Take care,

@wpcrafter,

I was able to recreate your initial issue following steps you provided:

if someone is logged in and their access is removed for a refund or something like that. They retain access unless they log out and there is no easy way to for everyone to log out.

This is no longer an issue.

I am very confused about your new report that after deleting the order the order is recreated.

Are you talking a WooCommerce order or a LifterLMS order?

How are you confirming that access has or has not been removed?

Are you testing this yourself or are your users relaying information to you? If you’re simply being relaid information can you please run a few tests yourself and verify yourself that access is not removed?

Are you removing from Courses AND Memberships or simply the membership?

If you remove from a membership members are not automatically removed from associated courses so you need to process those removals manually as well. This is a pain but there’s a few very complicated and important reasons why we don’t do this (and we’re working really hard to resolve this in our next major release that’s in the works).

Thanks,

@wpcrafter,

Thanks for the update. That seems absolutely plausible. LifterLMS has a lot of dynamic content that would absolutely be broken when cached. I’ve never had anyone report a caching related issue before and, to be completely honest, I’ve never tested compatibility with the popular caching plugins. My sincerest apologies. There’s an enormous world of conflict out there and I only have so many hours available to me so I focus on whatever issues are yelling at me the loudest…

Let me know if you have any other questions and take care,