🏆 Course Certificates — Automated PDF Certificates for Fluent Community v4.2

📖 Description
Course Certificates is a premium WordPress plugin that automatically generates beautiful, personalized PDF certificates when a student completes a course.
Built specifically for the Fluent Community platform, it helps course creators, educators, and membership site owners celebrate student achievements instantly — no manual work required.

Customize every detail — your logo, signature, background, watermark, and certificate text — and the plugin will handle the rest. Certificates are automatically created, saved, and emailed to the learner in a polished HTML email with a download link.

Now with enhanced features: track completions in the admin dashboard, display a profile course button, preview certificates in a modal, and embed recent completions anywhere on your site using a shortcode.

Includes REST API integration, and a simple admin dashboard to manage certificate appearance, delivery, and display settings.

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 ✨ Key Features

 🎨 Fully Customizable Certificates

• Upload your logo, signature, and background image.
• Add an optional watermark or text overlay (e.g., your brand name).
• Customize certificate text with dynamic placeholders:
  • {name} — Student name
  • {course_title} — Course name
  • {date} — Completion date

 📰 Automatic PDF Generation

• Generates professional PDF certificates instantly on course completion.
• Uses the powerful TCPDF engine for sharp, reliable document rendering.
• Automatically stores generated certificates for each user.

 ✨ New Features

• Certificate Background Image
  • Added support for optional background images on certificates.
  • Background images are centered and rendered behind all certificate elements.
  • Optimized for A4 landscape layout.
• Per-Course Instructor & Signature
  • Introduced course-specific instructor and signature assignment.
  • Added a collapsible  👨‍🏫 Course Instructor & Signature section to keep settings pages clean.
  • Course-specific signatures override the global signature when set.
• Instructor Live Search
  • Added AJAX-powered searchable instructor dropdown.
  • Supports searching by display name, username, or email.
  • Optimized for large WordPress user databases.
• Certificate Live Preview
  • Added instant certificate preview from the admin panel.
  • Preview displays logo, seal, watermark, background image, and global signature.
  • Uses sample student and course data for safe testing.
• Enhanced Manual Certificate Generation
  • Improved validation for manual certificate creation.
  • Prevents duplicate certificates for the same student and course.
  • All manually generated certificates are logged under Completed Courses.

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 Email Delivery

• Automatically sends certificates to learners via email.
• Beautiful, fully-editable HTML email templates.
• Customize subject lines, body text, and call-to-action buttons.

 Admin Dashboard

• Completed Courses Page: View all students who have completed courses, including student name, course, and completion date.
• Certificate Preview Modal: Preview certificates live in a sleek modal popup.
• Profile Course Button: Optionally display a  “Course” button on user profiles linking to the certificate preview.
• Shortcode Support: Embed recent course completions anywhere using certificate_completions with limit and animation options.

 REST API Support

• Developer-friendly endpoint for retrieving certificate data:

GET /wp-json/certificates/v1/get?user_id={USER_ID}&course_id={COURSE_ID}

• Returns JSON response with certificate URL, user info, and status.

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 Benefits

 Save Time

• Automate certificate creation and delivery, eliminating manual work.

 Boost Student Motivation

• Reward learners instantly upon course completion, increasing engagement and satisfaction.

 Enhance Your Brand

• Deliver professional certificates with your logo, watermark, and branding.

 Developer Friendly

• Expose certificate data via REST API for dashboards, integrations, or custom automations.

 Track & Showcase Achievements

• Admin dashboard lists completed courses for easy monitoring.
• Profile button allows students to view their certificates quickly.
• Shortcodes let you display recent completions on any page, post, or widget.

 Live Preview & Customization

• Test and preview certificate designs in a modal before sending.
• Customize titles, subtitles, and shortcode content for flexible display.

Video Explanation below.

📝 How to Use the Demo

Follow the steps below to experience the complete certificate process:

1. Create a Demo Account

🚀 Ready to Get Started?

Click below to create a demo account and start testing:

👉 Create Demo Account (Fluent Community)
👉 Create Demo Account (WP Admin)

If you already have an account:

👉 Login Here (Fluent Community)
👉 Login Here (WP Admin)

Please use the same Email and Password for both Fluent Community and WP Admin

You will instantly gain access as a Demo Member.

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2. Access the Sample Course

Once logged in, open the sample demo course:

👉 Access Demo Course

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3. Complete the Course Steps

Go through the demo course content:

• Read the lessons
• Mark them as completed

This simulates a real learning experience.

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4. Generate Your Certificate

At the end of the course, you’ll get an email automatically after completing a course.

Click it to download your certificate.

Your certificate includes:

• Your full name
• Course title
• Issue date

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5. Receive Your One-Time Download Email

After generating the certificate:

📩 You will receive an email containing:

• A secure one-time download link
• Your certificate PDF file

Basic
1 Domain
I year including updates
I year customer supports

Premium
5 Domains
1 year including updates
I year customer supports

Gold
15 Domains
5 years including updates
5 years customer supports

Life Time Deal
No limit for Domains
Lifetime Plugin Update
Lifetime Priority Support
All Features Included

🕓 Changelog — Course Certificates for Fluent Community

🚀 Version 5.0

Release Date: April 2026

✨ New Feature: FluentCRM Certificate Trigger Integration

• Added a new FluentCRM automation trigger: “Student Gets Certificate”
• Trigger fires automatically when a student earns a course certificate
• Integrated under Course Certificates category in FluentCRM funnels

✨ New Features: Admin Email Notification System

• Added Admin Email Notification System
  • Automatically sends email to admin when a student receives a certificate
  • Includes:
    • Student name
    • Student email
    • Course title
    • Completion date
    • Certificate download link
  • Certificate PDF is attached to the email
• Introduced Admin Email Toggle
  • Enable/disable admin notifications from Email Settings page
• Uses configured From Email for admin notifications

✨ New Features: 🔍 AJAX Live Search (SPA Experience)

• 🔍 AJAX Live Search (SPA Experience)
  • Added real-time search for students and courses
  • Instant results without page reload
  • Debounced input for better performance
  • Integrated seamlessly inside modal and shortcode output

✨ New Features: Overview Dashboard

• Added Overview Dashboard as the first admin submenu page.
• Introduced Top 10 Courses Analytics based on generated certificates.
• Integrated Line Chart visualization for certificate trends per course.
• Added Pie Chart visualization for course distribution insights.

📊 Improvements

• Improved data reporting system
• Optimized database queries for top courses and time-based analytics
• Enhanced admin UI with modern card-style layout (white background, shadow, rounded edges)

🧠 Enhancements

• Better data visualization for course performance tracking
• Clear insights into certificate generation trends
• Improved admin experience with clean and structured dashboard layout

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v4.2 — February 2026

✨ New Features

• Automatically generates course.php public page on plugin activation.
• Automatically removes generated course.php file on plugin deactivation.
• Added security file marker to prevent accidental deletion of non-plugin files.
• Added new translatable strings across public page and modal interface.
• Improved internationalization (i18n) support for better multilingual compatibility.

🌍 Translation Improvements

• Added missing __() and esc_html__() wrappers for new UI strings.
• Updated text domain consistency: course-certificates.
• Synced new strings for compatibility with Loco Translate.
• Improved support for .pot, .po, and .mo generation.
• Ensured all frontend modal labels and buttons are fully translatable.

🛡️ Security Enhancements

• Added verification check before deleting course.php to ensure it was generated by the plugin.
• Prevents unintended removal of manually created root files.
• Improved file lifecycle management for safer production usage.

🔧 Improvements

• Refactored activation hook for cleaner execution.
• Optimized plugin lifecycle handling.
• Improved public page generation reliability.
• Minor internal code cleanup and stability improvements.

v4.0 — January 2026

✨ New Features

• Certificate Background Image
  • Added support for optional background images on certificates.
  • Background images are centered and rendered behind all certificate elements.
  • Optimized for A4 landscape layout.
• Per-Course Instructor & Signature
  • Introduced course-specific instructor and signature assignment.
  • Added a collapsible 👨‍🏫 Course Instructor & Signature section to keep settings pages clean.
  • Course-specific signatures override the global signature when set.
• Instructor Live Search
  • Added AJAX-powered searchable instructor dropdown.
  • Supports searching by display name, username, or email.
  • Optimized for large WordPress user databases.
• Certificate Live Preview
  • Added instant certificate preview from the admin panel.
  • Preview displays logo, seal, watermark, background image, and global signature.
  • Uses sample student and course data for safe testing.
• Enhanced Manual Certificate Generation
  • Improved validation for manual certificate creation.
  • Prevents duplicate certificates for the same student and course.
  • All manually generated certificates are logged under Completed Courses.

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🎓 Course Completion & Certificate Management

• Completed Courses Admin Table
  • Added a centralized admin table to track completed courses.
  • Displays student name, course title, and completion date.
  • Shows certificate generation status with direct view access.
• Search & Pagination
  • Added search functionality for completed courses by student or course name.
  • Implemented pagination for better performance and usability on large datasets.
• Certificate Storage & Viewing
  • Certificates are automatically stored as PDFs in /wp-content/uploads/certificates/.
  • Each certificate is uniquely generated per student and course.
  • Admins can open certificates directly in a new browser tab.

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🧩 Frontend & User Features

• 🎓 Course Button on User Profiles
  • Added a Course button to user profile action menus.
  • Links users directly to course or certificate-related pages.
  • Enabled by default with admin control.
• Certificate Completion Shortcode
  • Added
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    • ✨ Tom Palmer completed Learn CSS - Beginner's Guide on November 20, 2025
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    • ✨ Nenye Nwa completed Testing on October 10, 2025
    shortcode to display recent course completions.
  • Supports configurable limits and optional animations.
  • Works across posts, pages, widgets, and shortcode-enabled areas.
• Certificate Completion Preview Modal
  • Added an admin preview modal for completion displays.
  • Allows visual verification of shortcode output, layout, and animations before publishing.

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⚙️ Automation & Reliability

• Automatic Course Completion Tracking
  • Course completions are logged instantly upon completion.
  • Records are stored independently of certificate generation.
  • Ensures accurate historical tracking even if certificates are generated later.

v3.5 — October 2025

🚀 Major Feature Update: Course Display & Completion Tracking

New Features

• 🧾 Completed Courses Admin Page
  • Added a new admin submenu under Certificates → Completed Courses.
  • Displays student name, course title, and completion date.
  • Supports pagination and sorting for large datasets.
• 🧍‍♂️ Profile Course Button
  • New toggle option to display a 🎓 Course button on user profiles.
  • Links directly to the user’s certificate preview page.
• 🪄 Certificate Preview Modal
  • Added a front-end modal for live previewing certificates.
  • Includes smooth animations, close button, and dynamic data rendering.
• 🔖 Shortcode Enhancements
  • Introduced
    • ✨ Derecho Mx completed How to Install WordPress in localhost web server on April 2, 2026
    • ✨ Ludovic Schmidt completed Learn HTML - Beginners Guide on March 24, 2026
    • ✨ Tom Palmer completed Learn CSS - Beginner's Guide on November 20, 2025
    • ✨ John completed Learn CSS - Beginner's Guide on November 11, 2025
    • ✨ Nenye Nwa completed Learn CSS - Beginner's Guide on November 10, 2025
    • ✨ Nenye Nwa completed Learn JavaScript (intermediate) on October 10, 2025
    • ✨ Nenye Nwa completed Testing on October 10, 2025
    shortcode for listing recent completions.
  • Added parameters:
    • limit — control how many completions are shown (default: 10).
    • animation — enable/disable animation effects (true / false).
  • Example:
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    • ✨ Ludovic Schmidt completed Learn HTML - Beginners Guide on March 24, 2026
    • ✨ Tom Palmer completed Learn CSS - Beginner's Guide on November 20, 2025
    • ✨ John completed Learn CSS - Beginner's Guide on November 11, 2025
    • ✨ Nenye Nwa completed Learn CSS - Beginner's Guide on November 10, 2025
    • ✨ Nenye Nwa completed Learn JavaScript (intermediate) on October 10, 2025
    • ✨ Nenye Nwa completed Testing on October 10, 2025
    .

Improvements

• 🧩 Optimized admin menu structure to group all certificate-related pages.
• ⚙️ Improved database logging for course completion tracking.
• 💬 Enhanced shortcode rendering for better performance and responsive layout.

Fixes

• 🧯 Fixed duplicate menu item issue in the WordPress admin sidebar.
• 🧹 Cleaned up deprecated hooks and improved compatibility with WordPress 6.6+.
• 🔒 Improved license verification flow for better stability with Mpaddi License Generator.

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v2.5 — September 2025

🎨 Certificate Customization & License Integration

• Added full customization options for certificate logo, signature, watermark, and text.
• Integrated license verification using Mpaddi License Generator.
• Introduced admin notices for invalid or expired licenses.
• Improved PDF generation reliability and font rendering with TCPDF.

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v2.0 — June 2025

🧱 Plugin Core & Automation

• Initial stable release of Course Certificates.
• Added automated PDF certificate generation on course completion.
• Implemented email delivery system with HTML templates.
• Added REST API endpoint for retrieving certificate data.
• Introduced admin dashboard for global settings and customization.

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v1.0 — March 2025

🔰 Beta Release

• Initial beta for internal testing.
• Basic PDF generation and storage.
• Manual admin certificate creation.

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