LearnDash Certificate Expiry

Education & Learning Paid

Gives each LearnDash certificate its own expiry date, with reminder emails and paid renewal, for first aid, safety and CPD courses.

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Key features

A validity period per certificate, counted from each student's completion date

Reminders at 180, 90 and 60 days, then an expired notice with a renewal link

Paid re-certification through a linked WooCommerce product

A verification link and QR code that show whether a certificate is active

One admin screen to grant, extend or revoke a student's certification

Sharing to LinkedIn, Facebook or X, and Open Badges v2.0 export

Detailed overview

LearnDash certificates never expire on their own, which is a problem for training that has to be renewed. LearnDash Certificate Expiry is a WordPress add-on from PluginSprout that sets a validity period on a certificate, so each student's copy lapses that many days after they finished the course.

Students get reminder emails 180, 90 and 60 days before the date and an expired notice, each with a renewal link, and every subject and body can be edited. Per course you choose whether the certificate is granted straight away, after an admin approves it, or after payment through a linked WooCommerce product. Each certificate also gets a non-guessable verification link and QR code, so an employer can check who holds it and whether it is still active.

One screen under LearnDash LMS lists every student, course, status, expiry date and payment reference, with bulk approve and revoke. It works with the certificates you already build in LearnDash and needs LearnDash 4.x. A licence is $79 a year for one site.