How to Password Protect LearnDash Courses

Requirements:

• Password Protect WordPress Lite version 1.3.0 or greater
• Password Protect WordPress Pro version 1.1.3 and greater

Step 1: Once activating our plugins, navigate to Password Protect WordPress >> Settings from your admin dashboard.

Then select “Courses”, “Lessons”, “Topics” and other LearnDash post types under Post Type Protection option.

Step 2: Password protect a course page.

Simply hover the course title and then click on “Protect” button to lock its content immediately.

Step 3: There are 2 options to protect LearnDash lessons and topics once the course page is protected.

• Show password form in Lesson and Topic pages
• Redirect users to Course page

To do so, add the corresponding code snippet into your (child) theme’s functions.php file.

Show password form in Lesson and Topic pages

add_filter(
    'the_content',
    function ($content) {
        if (!function_exists('ppw_core_render_login_form')) {
            return $content;
        }
        $post_type = get_post_type();
        if ('sfwd-lessons' !== $post_type && 'sfwd-topic' !== $post_type) {
            return $content;
        }

        $course_id = learndash_get_course_id();
        if (!post_password_required($course_id)) {
            return $content;
        }
        global $post;
        $post_id = $post->ID;
        $post->ID = $course_id;
        $form = ppw_core_render_login_form();
        $post->ID = $post_id;

        return $form;
    },
    100
);

Redirect users to Course page

add_action(
    'template_redirect',
    function () {
        if (!function_exists('ppw_core_render_login_form')) {
            return;
        }
        $post_type = get_post_type();
        if ('sfwd-lessons' !== $post_type && 'sfwd-topic' !== $post_type) {
            return;
        }

        $course_id = learndash_get_course_id();
        if (!post_password_required($course_id)) {
            return;
        }

        wp_redirect(get_post_permalink($course_id));
        exit;
    },
    100
);