The General Settings in LearnDash serve as the foundation for your entire Learning Management System (LMS). These configurations allow you to define how your site operates on a global scale, from payment processing and email notifications to custom labels and translations. By tailoring these settings to your specific needs, you can create a cohesive brand experience and ensure that your automated workflows align with your instructional goals.

Within this section, you can manage essential commerce functions, such as enabling payment gateways and tracking student orders. You also have full control over the communication sent to your learners, with tools to customize email notifications for course enrollment and quiz completions. For those looking to personalize their platform further, advanced options allow for the renaming of core terms—like changing “Courses” to “Workshops”—to better fit your organization’s terminology. These centralized controls ensure that your site remains professional, organized, and easy to maintain.

LearnDash General Settings

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This collection provides detailed guides on configuring the core settings of LearnDash, including payments, emails, custom labels, and order management.

Orders
The Order Management system for LearnDash empowers site administrators to manage orders with just a few quick clicks. With improved accessibility, orders are prominently featured in the main navigation menu under LearnDash LMS > Orders, enabling quick and easy access. You can quickly view, search, and organize orders more effectively, enhancing overall workflow and efficiency.…
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Experiments
The Experiments feature in LearnDash lets you see a demonstration of functionality still in the prototype stage. You will be able to freely test Experiments and send the teams feedback to improve the features before they are fully released as part of the LearnDash LMS plugin. The Experiments feature will not require a separate upload…
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Emails – LearnDash General Settings for Notifications and Senders
The emails tab lets you customize your various LearnDash emails without a need for a third-party plugin. You can enable or disable certain emails, change their content and update the “From” name and email from this Tab. Email Notifications On this screen, you can enable or disable certain email notifications that are sent from your…
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Advanced Options
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. Custom Labels Custom labels let you customize how you refer to the learning material on…
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Payments
The LearnDash Payments tab houses all of the payment settings and fields needed to turn your site into a bustling eCommerce platform. You can configure, and individually enable or disable payment gateways that you wish to use from this tab, without having to delete or re-enter your API information. Default Payments Configurations The default payment…
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Quiz Email Notifications
LearnDash quizzes allow both users and administrators to receive email notifications when a quiz is completed. This article will explain how to set up quiz notifications, and the options available. Quiz Email Settings The quiz email settings are where you configure the following settings: If you insert media or use any HTML in your message,…
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Global Topic Settings
The LearnDash topic settings screen is where you can set global options that will apply to all topics on your site. Topic settings are organized into a few sections, outlined below. To access your global topic settings: Topic Taxonomies (Categories and Tags) This is where you decide how to organize your topics. You have four…
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Translation
LearnDash is in English and has user-donated translations. Strings in the LearnDash codebase are translatable. You can use free software like PoEdit to create and modify LearnDash translation files for your language. Or a free WordPress plugin like Loco Translate. Current Translations NOTE: As the translations are user-donated, they may not be 100% complete for…
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