PressPrimer Certificate – Certificate Designer & Course Certification for Your LMS

Design Defaults

• Letter, A4, Legal, and A3 page sizes, in portrait or landscape
• Site-wide defaults for certificate size, font, logo, and signature
• Brand colors (primary, accent, text) that starter templates apply automatically

Issuance & Automation

• Automatic triggers: PressPrimer Quiz pass thresholds, PressPrimer Assignment grades, and course, lesson, topic, or quiz completion in LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, and LearnPress
• “Any” award options: one trigger can cover any quiz, any course, or any lesson in a chosen course, so one certificate serves your whole catalog
• Certificate display names built from merge fields, so a template reused across courses names each certificate after its course everywhere it appears
• Manually issue certificates with optional backdating and expiry dates
• Validity periods: set how long certificates from a template stay valid (days, months, or years), pick an exact expiry date, or let them last forever
• Per-trigger control over repeat completions: suppress duplicates or issue a fresh certificate every time (for compliance and recertification courses)
• Revoke certificates and reinstate them if revoked by mistake

Credentials & Verification

• Unique, non-guessable credential IDs with a check that catches typos
• Public verification page (shortcode and block) that anyone can use, no account needed
• Optional QR code on every certificate linking to its verification page
• The QR code and credential ID on issued PDFs are clickable, so an emailed certificate verifies in one click
• A shareable certificate view page with PDF download
• Download PDF on the verification page for valid and expired certificates, so a verifier can keep a copy
• Certificate Link block and shortcode: one button on a course, lesson, topic, or quiz page that downloads the logged-in learner’s own certificate for that item (or opens its page, your choice), hidden until it is earned
• My Certificates list (shortcode and block) so logged-in learners can see, verify, and download everything they have earned, with status filters and sorting by date, name, or upcoming expiry

Admin

• Dashboard with certificate statistics, an awarded-over-time chart, quick actions, and recent certificates
• A guided setup tour that walks you from a starter template to your first issued certificate in five minutes
• Certificates screen with search by recipient, certificate name, or exact credential ID, and template, status, source, and issue-date filters
• Bulk actions: revoke, reinstate, resend, or delete the certificates you check, or every certificate matching your filters, with a progress bar and a summary of anything skipped
• Earned certificates listed on each user’s profile page with verify and download links
• Certificate templates list with trigger, page size, and status columns

Email

• Branded HTML certificate emails: your logo or site name at the top, the message in a clean white card, and the certificate PDF attached
• A formatted message editor (bold, italics, lists, and links) and a View Certificate button
• Certificate merge fields in the email subject and body, so the email can name the exact course or quiz that was completed
• Send a test email to any address
• Resend a certificate’s email with one click

Security, Privacy & Accessibility

• PDF and QR code generation happen locally on your server
• PDFs are protected against editing: Acrobat and other tools refuse to change text like the student name, while printing and copying stay available
• WordPress Privacy API integration (Tools > Export/Erase Personal Data)
• Clean uninstall with optional complete data removal
• Keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and reduced motion preferences

Premium Add-ons

Everything above is free on WordPress.org. Optional add-ons from pressprimer.com extend the plugin in three tiers, each building on the one below it:

Educator

• Custom Fonts – Upload your brand’s TTF fonts; they appear in every designer font control and render identically on screen and in the PDF.
• Multi-Page Certificates – Add, duplicate, and reorder pages in the designer; every page renders in the PDF.
• Bulk Awarding – Award a certificate to many recipients at once from a user list or a CSV, with a full per-row preview before anything sends.
• Wallet Cards – A credit-card or business-card size card designed in the same designer and issued with every certificate, as a card PDF or a print sheet with cut marks.
• Custom Page Sizes – Any width and height from 1 to 24 inches.
• Email Templates – As many named award and expiry reminder emails as you need, chosen for each certificate template.
• Brand Kit – Up to 10 brands, each with its colors, fonts, and logos, offered first in the designer, with Replace Colors to recolor a design in one step.
• One-Off Certificates – Issue a certificate to anyone by name and email, with no account or course needed.
• Expiry Reminder Emails – Remind recipients before their certificate expires, on a schedule you control, with a rich-text message (or a different reminder email per template) and a test send to any address.
• Branded Verification Page – Your logo, accent color, intro line, and footer on the public verification page, with a live preview.
• Social Sharing – One-click LinkedIn add-to-profile, share composers for LinkedIn, X, and Facebook, copy link, and link previews that show the certificate itself.

School (everything in Educator, plus)

• Issuing Organizations – Issuer profiles with their own name, logo, and web address; members as owners or issuers; templates assigned per organization so members see and award only their own.
• Public Registry – An issuer profile page and per-credential program pages with a sample certificate image and earner count.
• Credential Directory – A searchable public directory of credential holders, listed according to your site policy and per-certificate consent.
• Organization-Branded Verification – The verification page carries the issuing organization’s logo, accent color, intro, and footer.
• Award Past Completions – Find everyone who completed a course, lesson, quiz, or assignment before the trigger existed, in the dates you choose, preview every row, and award them in one run, each certificate dated to its completion.
• Credential ID Formats – Each organization’s own ID format, like ACME-2026-00042, that never reuses a number and verifies however it is typed.
• Organization Brands and Emails – Choose which of the site’s brands and emails each organization’s templates can use, and let owners manage their organizations’ certificates in bulk.
• Email Copies – Per-template CC and BCC on award emails, plus optional copies to LearnDash Group Leaders and PressPrimer Teachers.

Enterprise (everything in School, plus)

• Audit Log – A single, filterable record of who did what and when across the suite, with per-category retention controls, CSV export, and support for WordPress’s Export and Erase Personal Data tools.
• Open Badges 3.0 – Every certificate can also be a signed Open Badges 3.0 credential that learners add to a digital wallet, upload to Credly or Open Badge Passport, or share as a badge image, and revoking the certificate revokes the badge for verifiers (PHP 8.2 or later required).
• White Label – Run the certificate system under your own brand: the admin menu, dashboard, and logos, email footers, PDF document details, and custom admin styles.
• Verification API and Embeddable Widget – A key-authenticated JSON endpoint that answers what the verification page shows, and a drop-in widget partners paste into their own pages.

Perfect For

• Course creators using LearnDash, LifterLMS,