How to Display Your LifterLMS Course and Membership Catalog

By default, LifterLMS adjusts the display of your course and membership pages based on a user’s enrollment status. Enrolled students see a progress bar and their lesson status, while visitors see the public-facing description and enrollment options.

If you want to change this default behavior, for example, by displaying a full catalog of offerings on a custom page, you have two main options: using WordPress blocks or shortcodes.

If you use a modern block theme or a Full Site Editing theme, using LifterLMS blocks is the easiest way to display your catalog.

To display your courses using a block:

1. Navigate to Pages > All Pages in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Click the Edit button on the page where you want to show your courses.
3. Click the Add Block button.
4. Look for “Course” in the results, then click it to add the block to your page.
5. Click the Publish or Update button to save your changes.

To display your memberships using a block:

1. Navigate to Pages > All Pages in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Click the Edit button on the page where you want to show your memberships.
3. Click the Add Block button.
4. Look for “Membership” in the results, then click it to add the block to your page.
5. Click the Publish or Update button to save your changes.

If you use a classic theme or a third-party page builder, you can use shortcodes to display your courses and memberships. You can find a complete list of LifterLMS shortcodes in our documentation.

You can use the [lifterlms_courses] shortcode to show your courses, and you can type the [lifterlms_memberships] shortcode to show your memberships.

To display your catalog using a shortcode:

1. Navigate to Pages > All Pages in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Click the Edit button on the page where you want to show your catalog.
3. Add a “shortcode” block to your page.
4. Type [lifterlms_courses] into the block to show your courses, or type [lifterlms_memberships] into the block to show your memberships.
5. Click the Publish or Update button to save your changes.