Since LearnDash 3.6, we’ve shifted some options around to make it easier (or harder to accidentally) for you to change some options. These options include the Custom Labels, REST API Settings and Data Upgrades, each were previously their own tabs.
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Custom Labels
Custom labels let you customize how you refer to the learning material on your site. By default, LearnDash uses the “course,” “lesson,” “topic” & “quiz” language, but you can change this to anything you’d like.
For example, you might want to call your lessons “modules” instead. And then maybe you want to rename your topics to “lessons.” You could also rename “quizzes” to be “tests” or “exams.” It’s entirely up to you.
When you apply a custom label, all references to that label will change in the WordPress admin area, as well as on the front-end of your site. Both your site administrators and all of your users will see the new label(s).
URLs / PERMALINKS
Custom labels will not affect your URLs. You can change the URLs to match your custom labels in the permalink settings.
The following LearnDash labels are available for customization:
Course
Courses
Lesson
Lessons
Topic
Topics
Quiz
Quizzes
Question
Questions
Take this Course (button)
Mark Complete (button)
Click Here to Continue (button)
You can revert all custom labels back to their default values by using the Reset Settings button at the bottom of the screen.
Data Upgrades
In certain circumstances you may be required to run a data upgrade to convert specific LearnDash data sets. You will only be required to run a data upgrade if…
LearnDash support requests that you run an upgrade, or;
you receive an admin message prompt on your WordPress dashboard indicating the specific upgrade that needs to be run.
To run an upgrade, simply click the button and a progress bar will appear to indicate the status of the upgrade. It is important to let the update run uninterrupted until the progress bar reaches 100%. Afterwards, you can perform other actions from your dashboard.
The possible data upgrades are:
Upgrade User Course Data & Upgrade User Quiz Data
These two data upgrades copy user course and quiz progress, usually stored in the wp_usermeta table into the Activity table. This is needed for easier reporting and the LearnDash ProPanel reporting plugin.There generally is no need to run the data upgraded on these as the data is synced automatically as the user completed course steps or takes a quiz.
Upgrade Quiz Questions
This data upgrade will convert the legacy questions into proper WordPress posts. Required to use Quiz Builder.
Convert Course Access Lists
This data upgrade was added in LearnDash 3.1. This data upgrade will reconfigure how the course access list shown on the Course edit screen is used. This is not needed unless you are having repeated issues with users losing course access.
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