LearnDash + Open CPD
LearnDash runs the course on your own site. Open CPD adds the certificate, badge and public record your learners take with them afterwards.
Why pair LearnDash with Open CPD
Training providers who choose LearnDash usually want more control than a hosted course platform gives them — their own domain, their own WordPress site, their own branding throughout. That control doesn't extend to credentialing: LearnDash can mark a course complete, but it can't give a learner a portable, independently verifiable credential.
Open CPD does that part, connected directly to the WordPress site you already run.
How it connects
A learner completes a course inside LearnDash.
A Zap picks up that WordPress/LearnDash event and sends the learner's details to Open CPD.
Open CPD issues the certificate, badge and achievement page and emails the learner directly.
No change to how you run or deliver training in LearnDash.
What your LearnDash learners get
Your name, your logo, their course title, learning outcomes and CPD points.
Shareable on LinkedIn or in an email signature, verifiable in one click.
A permanent, indexed page recording what they learned and who taught it.
LearnDash questions, answered
We'd recommend disabling it once Open CPD is connected — two certificates for the same course is confusing, not reassuring. If you'd like to keep your site's exact look, we can build a bespoke Open CPD certificate template to match your LearnDash branding — it feels seamless to the learner, but it's still always generated and issued by Open CPD, not by LearnDash.
Ready to add certificates to your LearnDash courses?
Start free, or talk it through with our team first.