8.1 Glossary

Terms used throughout this documentation, in alphabetical order. Some are general WordPress and web terms included for readers new to the platform.

Access plan — A LifterLMS pricing option attached to a course or membership: price, billing frequency, access length and enroll text. Lifter Elements reads plans through the Course Access Plans, Pricing Table and Access Plan Button widgets and the featured plan dynamic tags.

Conditional logic — The Lifter Elements section on every Elementor element's Advanced tab that shows or hides the element by the visitor's LifterLMS status (enrollment, completion, drip date, group role and so on). Ships in every edition and needs only Elementor core. See The Conditional Logic Panel and the Conditional Logic reference.

Course track — A LifterLMS taxonomy that groups courses into a learning path such as "Beginner" or "Certification". Shown by the Course Meta widget and the Course Tracks dynamic tag; a course can also require a whole track as a prerequisite. See LifterLMS's Course Tracks guide.

Drip — LifterLMS's schedule for releasing a lesson: on a fixed date, or a number of days after enrollment, course start or a prerequisite lesson. Until the drip date the Lesson Content, Lesson Video and Lesson Audio widgets show their Content To Show text instead, and the drip dynamic tags can print a countdown. The settings page can let students open dripped lessons early.

Dynamic tag — An Elementor control value that is filled from live data instead of typed in. Lifter Elements adds tags for course, lesson, group and user data (a title, a URL, a progress percentage) that you bind to any text, link or image field. See Dynamic Tags and the Dynamic Tags reference.

Elementor — The visual page builder for WordPress that Lifter Elements extends. Widgets, dynamic tags and conditional logic all appear inside the Elementor editor. Some widgets build on Elementor Pro widgets (Slides, Author Box) and are only available when Elementor Pro is active; each reference page says so where it applies.

Enrollment status — Whether, and how, a visitor is enrolled in a course or membership: not enrolled, enrolled, expired or cancelled. Many widgets change what they render by it, and conditional logic can test it directly.

Featured video / featured audio — The video or audio URL entered in a LifterLMS course's or lesson's own settings. The Course Video, Lesson Video, Course Audio and Lesson Audio widgets render it; the widgets have no media field of their own.

Group — A LifterLMS Groups add-on entity that enrolls a set of members (with member, leader and administrator roles) into one course or membership, usually bought as a number of seats. Lifter Elements adds group widgets, dynamic tags and conditions when the add-on is active. See Groups widgets and How to Sell Seat-Based Group Enrollment.

Instructor — A user assigned to a course in LifterLMS's Instructors box, with an optional label such as Author. Shown by the Course Author widget.

LifterLMS — The learning management system for WordPress that Lifter Elements is built for: courses, lessons, quizzes, memberships, access plans, students and their progress. Lifter Elements never stores this data itself; every widget, tag and shortcode reads it from LifterLMS.

Membership — A LifterLMS product that grants access to a set of courses or restricted content for as long as the membership lasts. Listed by the Memberships List and User Memberships widgets; its plans render through the same plan widgets as courses.

OpCache — A PHP feature that caches compiled code so pages load faster. Worth enabling on any LifterLMS site; note that after a plugin update a stale OpCache can briefly serve old code until it refreshes.

Render (LifterLMS render / Custom) — A setting on several widgets. LifterLMS render outputs LifterLMS's own markup, styled by the LifterLMS stylesheet; Custom outputs Elementor markup you style with the widget's Style tab. The choice decides which controls the widget shows.

Shortcode — A bracketed tag such as [le-course-title] that prints one value wherever WordPress renders text. Lifter Elements ships 32 le- shortcodes as a text-only alternative to dynamic tags. See Shortcodes and the Shortcodes reference.

Staging environment — A copy of your live site used to try updates and design changes before they go live. Test Elementor, LifterLMS and Lifter Elements updates there first.

Theme Builder template — An Elementor template (a Single or Archive location) that replaces the theme's layout for a post type. Lifter Elements is used mostly inside templates for courses, lessons, quizzes, memberships and groups, so one design applies to every item. See Theme Builder Locations.

Widget — A building block in Elementor's editor panel. Lifter Elements adds its widgets under the Lifter Elements category (and Lifter Elements - Groups with the Groups add-on). See Widgets and the Widgets reference.

WYSIWYG editor — "What You See Is What You Get": an editor that shows content as it will look on the page instead of as code. The Elementor editor is one; so is the Content To Show field on the lesson widgets.