Posts by Ben Arellano
How to Use Easy Digital Downloads to Sell Online Courses
Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for WordPress. As its name in implies, it makes selling digital products from your website a breeze. Upon activation, it’s ready for you to create a product, price it, and sell it. It does come with PayPal standard which is very easy to set up so you can begin collecting…
Read MoreWP Courseware Version 3.9 is Here With Course Prerequisites, Question Importing, and More!
We’re on a roll here at Fly Plugins! After receiving such tremendous feedback from our 2016 WP Courseware user survey and hiring an entirely new development team, we’re looking forward to several exciting updates in the coming weeks. Again, after the hundreds of user survey submissions we received, we were able to take a look…
Read MoreIt’s Time to Start Slacking With Your Online Courses!
Are You On Slack? If not, don’t worry…I was recently introduced to it myself. But I love it! Nate and I use Slack to collaborate with our team here at Fly Plugins. We use it to communicate many important decisions, share ideas, strategize, and plan our activities. But, perhaps you don’t know what Slack is…
Read More6 Lessons Learned from Our WordPress LMS User Survey
In case you missed it, we recently sent out a request via email asking for participation in our 2016 WP Courseware WordPress LMS plugin user survey. As many of you know, WP Courseware was originally developed four years ago to solve challenges Ben and I were having creating our own training courses in WordPress. At…
Read MoreAnnouncing WP Courseware Version 3.8.5! Did Someone Say Multiple Correct Answers?
One thing I’ve learned in life is that it’s much easier to accomplish a task if you have the right tools. When I discover a new tool or software that helps me perform a task more efficiently than I have in the past, I can honestly say I get pretty excited! I get so excited sometimes…
Read MoreE-Learning Tech Tool Series: DesignJot
It’s been a while since we’ve conducted an app review for our E-Learning Tech Tool Series, but we recently came across a very useful iOS app that we wanted to share with you today. As some of you know, we’re huge proponents of proper planning before jumping into course creation. Taking the time to initially…
Read More5 Crucial Tips for Securing Your Digital Assets
You may have heard of the “recent” LinkedIn hacking incident. Apparently 117 million user accounts were compromised in 2012, exposing email addresses and passwords. However, I’m not quite sure why a hack that occurred in 2012 has only recently been addressed by LinkedIn. I’m mean…who would have thought we live in a day and age where…
Read MoreAre You Ready to Transform Your Course Into a Community? Here’s How!
In one of our recent posts, we talked about how it can often be a challenge to create a real sense of community within an e-learning environment. After all, staring at your laptop screen isn’t the same as sitting in a classroom so we need to get creative when making an attempt to keep our…
Read MoreThe Dummies Guide to LMS vs. Membership vs. E-Commerce Plugins
I’ve heard one question coming up again and again recently from prospective customers contacting us about WP Courseware. Want to know what it is? “Help! Do I need an LMS plugin or a membership plugin or an e-commerce plugin or all off the above?” And this is really a tough question to answer because it’s your…
Read MoreS3 Media Maestro Version 2.0 Brings CloudFront Integration and More!
Today we’re very excited to announce a new S3 Media Maestro update with the release of version 2.0! While this update includes a few new features (see below), it also boasts a major addition to functionality which many of you have been asking for over the last few months. But, the price of S3 Media…
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