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Jump Starting Your Course Idea with Mind Mapping
When it comes to the actionable content we’ve created to help our customers succeed with profitable courses using WP Courseware, one of our current users recently pointed out something which I hadn’t realized and of course it now seems very obvious. Over the last four and a half years, we’ve spent a lot of time writing…
Read MoreIntroducing WP Courseware Version 4.0 with Instructor Roles and More!
It’s been a busy summer here at Fly Plugins! After receiving an incredible response from our 2016 WP Courseware user survey and hiring a very talented new development team, we’ve been hard at work on the features our customers would like to see rolled out. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a major update to WP…
Read MoreAre You Paying More for Coffee Than WordPress Hosting?
Can I tell you one of my pet peeves? These days many of us are completely comfortable spending $5 on coffee every day of the week. Yet I can’t tell you how many online entrepreneurs I’ve spoken with who run their entire business on WordPress, but who refuse to pay more than $30 per month for web hosting.…
Read MoreUsing myCRED and WP Courseware for Reward-Driven Learning
myCred and WP Courseware can be integrated to incentivize your online course students and keep them engaged. Let’s take a look at how it works! Over the last four years of WP Courseware, we’ve been able to create quite a few integrations to link our LMS plugin‘s core functionality with other WordPress solutions. Of course,…
Read MorePaid Memberships Pro for Selling Courses
A couple weeks ago I published an article on how to sell courses using Easy Digital Downloads. But what if you would like to add a membership element to your website? Whats the difference? Easy Digital Downloads allows you to sell courses as “products”. A membership plugin allows you to use your website as the “product”.…
Read MoreHow 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…
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