Fix LearnDash Certificate Builder not working in Divi

Written by Dan Mossop

LearnDash includes the option to reward your users with certificates upon completion of course material such as lessons. To make designing the certificates easier, LearnDash offer the free Certificate Builder Add-On. If you're having trouble getting it to work with the Divi theme, this post will hopefully help you troubleshoot the issue.

Note, see this post if you want to instead design the LearnDash certificate using the Divi Builder

Disable Classic Editor

A while back, WordPress introduced the "Gutenberg" block editor as a replacement for the old plain text post editor. Since Divi's original page builder (now called the "classic builder") relied on the old post editor, Divi added a feature to restore the classic editor – and in the process disable the WordPress block editor.

However, since the LearnDash Certificate Builder Add-On depends on the block editor, this Divi feature prevents the Add-On from working. To solve this, you can disable the classic editor setting in Divi by going to:

Divi > Theme Options > Builder > Advanced > Enable Classic Editor

And setting it to "Disabled", like so: 

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About Dan Mossop

Dan is a Scottish-born web developer, now living in Brisbane with his wife and son. He has been sharing tips and helping users with Divi since 2014. He created Divi Booster, the first Divi plugin, and continues to develop it along with 20+ other Divi plugins. Dan has a PhD in Computer Science, a background in web security and likes a lot of stuff, 

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