LearnDash – How to Bulk Edit Recurring Courses

In this tutorial, you will learn how to bulk edit LearnDash LMS recurring courses efficiently using WP Sheet Editor.

Editing recurring courses manually in LearnDash can be difficult and take a lot of time. You have to open and edit each course one by one. This totally hinders your productivity because it entails a lot of repetitive work, making it easy to overlook important details and wasting valuable time that could be better spent on course creation or student engagement.

This is where our plugin, WP Sheet Editor – Courses, comes into play as the ideal solution. With its powerful features, you can perform bulk edits in just a few clicks, significantly boosting your productivity and saving hours of work.

Please note that we assume you’re already using the LearnDash LMS plugin, so you need to follow the steps in the sections below in order to bulk manage your recurring courses using WP Sheet Editor.

Install WP Sheet Editor – Courses

After completing the payment process, you need to follow the steps below to install and activate the plugin:

1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin.
2. Click on Upload plugin.
3. Click on Choose file.
4. Locate the file on your computer.
5. Click on Install now.
6. Click on Activate plugin.
7. Enter your license and click on Activate License.

Open the Courses spreadsheet

To open the spreadsheet, go to WP Sheet Editor > Edit Courses.

You will see all the courses displayed in an intuitive spreadsheet format. This makes it easy easy to manage everything in one place.

Search for recurring courses

Since we’re managing recurring courses, we will filter them to omit all other courses. To to this, we will use the Search tool.

Now you need to select these values in the Search tool to find all the recurring courses:

• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox.
• Field: Access Mode
• Operator: =
• Value: Recurring
• Click on Run search.

Once you run the search, you’ll see all your recurring courses displayed in the spreadsheet, as well as the search filters above the spreadsheet.

Once you’ve filtered all your recurring courses, you can start applying changes.

Option 1 – Manage recurring courses in the spreadsheet

The recurring courses have some special fields that you may want to manage:

• Course price – Enter the price.
• Recurring duration number – Select how many days, weeks, months or years the billing cycle lasts.
• Recurring duration unit – Select the unit: days, weeks, months, years.
• Recurring trial price – Enter the trial price if your recurring courses include a trial period.
• Recurring trial duration number – Select how many days, weeks, months or years the trial price lasts.
• Recurring trial duration unit – Select the unit: days, weeks, months, years.

You can locate these fields in the spreadsheet and start making changes. Once you edit all the recurring changes you want to edit, you need to click on Save to apply the changes.

Option 2 – Bulk edit recurring courses

If you don’t want to use the spreadsheet, you can update any of the recurring course fields using the Bulk Edit tool. It allows you to edit multiple rows or items of the Courses post type at once, so you can update any field on hundreds or even thousands of courses easily.

As we have mentioned, you can edit any field using the bulk editor, and especially, you can edit the recurring pricing and duration fields. In this example, we will show you how to bulk edit any of these fields in all the filtered courses.

Start by opening the Bulk Edit tool.

Now you need to select the values you want to apply in the Bulk Edit tool (in this example, we will edit the recurring trial price, but you can follow the same steps to edit any other field):

• Select the rows that you want to update: Edit all the rows from my current search
• What field do you want to edit: Recurring Trial Price, in this example.
• Select type of edit: Set value, in this example.
• Replace existing value with this value: Add the new recurring trial price here.
• Click on Execute Now.

As you can see, WP Sheet Editor – Courses completely simplifies your recurring course management. You can easily edit recurring prices and durations, as well as trial prices and durations. Now you can save a lot of time and focus on creating more courses and managing them easily.