Course Press Without User Login

Hey there David,

Hope you’re well today!

Unfortunately this is not possible out of a box in the current version of the plugin.

In order to access the course user has to be assigned to the course which means registration/logging in is required by plugin design. I could suggest this in our forum and if enough interest is shown we’ll consider adding this to future versions of the plugin ??

Best regards,
Bojan

Hi Bojan,
The description of “Course Press” is quite misleading, not everyone wants users to logon, I work as a freelance consultant (not WordPress) my website is to showcase my skills and give free information, I was looking for a way to bring code examples as units that anyone visiting the site can follow and read step by step.

I read and signed up for 3 months for “Course Press Pro” as it says:
“Whether you’re selling or sharing your knowledge, this plugin will save you time and make your work stand out.”

Free and teasers posts are a part of the description, if you have to sign up for anything at any point before reading it, it is no longer free, as you have given you name and email in return for the alleged “Free Content”.

Here is where I am coming from, I like many many people will close a webpage that is offering free information or a e-learning pdf if it asked for my email or to register, as I do not want to be spammed after.

I would like to be able to share knowledge to attract future clients without requiring a login, looking at other uses for this plugin could be step by step support guides for a product where login would also not be required.

Thinking “out the box” a little and you have, online manuals with step by step online Instructions for Flat Pack furniture, recipes, growing plants, after market car part online fitting instruction, craft kits, models, anything that is supplied in parts and requires step by step instructions.

I only wanted this plugin for visitors to be able to follow code instructions for free with no logon, so I will have to request a cancellation and refund ??

Regards

David

Hey again David,

Sorry to hear you’re not satisfied with the plugin ??

Free courses is referring to the non paid courses and free teasers actually refers to allowing units “Free Preview” which could actually work in your case since you’re just offering read only content. It allows visitors to read units. You can display it from your course description page in admin.

To do that please go to CoursePress -> Course -> Course Overview -> Step 2 – Course Description and first check “Show the Course Overview structure and Preview Options” and after that check for each unit “Show” and “Free Preview”, see screenshot https://screencast.com/t/DA1uDtuYCSiQ.

This will allow visitors to read only units from your course page on the front end, see screenshot https://screencast.com/t/XQ70hWXGUSnw.

Could this work for you?

Also if you’re using premium version of your plugin please open a thread in WPMU DEV forum, you can open thread here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/#question

Hope this helps ??

Best regards,
Bojan

Hi Bojan,
I had already tried the setup from your images, it could work if the Unit Link was not disables and the Free link was hidden.

If there was an option to choose either showing the ‘Free’ link or the ‘Unit Name’ being the link.

Kind Regards

David

Hey again David,

I guess the easiest way to to do this would actually be to use plugin translation files and replace the word “Free” to something else, something like this https://screencast.com/t/glDAvvn6momm.

If you want to do that you’ll find more information how to use translation files by following this link https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-plugin/.

In short what you have to do is edit plugin language files which are located in /wp-content/plugins/courspress/languages/ with Poedit, replace the word “Free” with the word of your choice and save new language files as cp-en_US and make sure you’re using English (United States) in Settings -> General.

Hope this helps ??

Cheers,
Bojan

Hi Bojan,
I will try the plugin’s forum to see if I can get enough support for an open course for guests, I have paid for three months so hopefully something might happen in that time.

If I was to use the Plugin’s translations file this would be overwritten every time you issued an update.

Hopefully

David

Hey again David,

You can also place the translation files in /wp-content/languages/plugins/ and they will work equally good and they will be safe from plugin updates.

Hope this helps ??

Cheers,
Bojan