Widget Areas for LearnDash

• Add a Course Progress Bar to the top or bottom of your Focus Mode sidebar

Feel free to experiment with the other LearnDash widgets .

Elementor Templates

If you’re using Elementor Pro, you can create a custom section and embed it anywhere on your site, including in your new LearnDash widget areas. There are two ways to do this:

1. 01When you go to insert a block/widget, select the Elementor Library widget. Choose a template from the dropdown menu. Click “Save.”
2. 02Navigate to Templates > Saved Templates . Copy the shortcode next to the template you want to insert. Now you’ll insert a Shortcode block into the widget area, and paste the shortcode.

For more information, see the article in Elementor’s knowledge base .

Widget Area CSS Class Names

If you need to target the widget areas to apply custom styles using CSS, you can use the following class names.

All widget areas have the .ldx-widget-area class.

• Focus Mode: Sidebar: Above Navigation – .ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-before
• Focus Mode: Sidebar: After Navigation – .ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-after
• Focus Mode: Content: Start – .ldx-widget-area.fm-content-start
• Focus Mode: Below Content – .ldx-widget-area.fm-content-bottom
• Course Page: Content: Start – .ldx-widget-area.course-content-start
• Course Page: Content: End – .ldx-widget-area.course-content-end
• Group Page: Content: Start – .ldx-widget-area.group-content-start
• Group Page: Content: End – .ldx-widget-area.group-content-end

Example Usage:

.ldx-widget-area.fm-nav-before { margin: 1em; }

This would add 1em of spacing around the widget area that appears above the navigation in the Focus Mode sidebar.

In addition, all widgets placed inside of a widget area have a class of .ldx-widget .

Show/Hide Widgets on Certain Devices

While not a direct feature of this plugin, you can show/hide widgets on different devices using another free plugin.

1. 03Install & activate the Widget Options plugin
2. 04Navigate to the widget that you’d like to adjust the visibility on
3. 05Scroll to the bottom and click on the tab with the mobile phone
4. 06Choose to either show or hide on the checked devices
5. 07Check the appropriate devices
6. 08Click “Save”

Show/Hide Widgets on Specific Course/Lesson/Topic Pages

Another feature of the free Widget Options plugin (mentioned above) is to only show widgets on specific course, lesson, topic or quiz pages.

1. 09Install & activate the Widget Options plugin
2. 10Navigate to the widget that you’d like to adjust the visibility on
3. 11Scroll to the bottom and click on the settings cog icon
4. 12Click on the Logic tab
5. 13In the text box, you can use the is_single() conditional tag to only display that widget on a specific page
6. 14Use the ID of the course, lesson, topic or quiz

👉 How to find the ID of LearnDash content

Example:

This would only display the widget on the page with an ID of 7 :

is_single( '7' )

If you wanted to display a widget on multiple pages (with IDs of 1, 2 and 3), your code would look like this:

is_single( array( 1, 2, 3 ) )

There are many more WordPress conditional tags you can use.

From within WordPress

1. 15Visit “Plugins > Add New”
2. 16Search for “Widget Areas for LearnDash”
3. 17Click the “Install” button
4. 18Click the “Activate” button
5. 19Navigate to “Appearance > Widgets” or open the Customizer to start adding blocks/widgets to your new widget areas