Course and Group Reviews

The addon adds a star-rating review system to LearnDash courses and groups. Reviews are stored as native WordPress comments with a rating stored in comment meta, so they live alongside your normal comment moderation tools and are not kept in any custom database table.

How reviews work

• Learners leave a star rating (1 to 5) together with their comment on a course or group.
• Ratings are captured when the comment is posted and shown as a star display on the single page and as an average rating with a review count on the course and group grid cards.
• Because reviews are comments, you moderate them from the standard WordPress Comments screen.

Options

The review system is controlled by a small set of options:

• Enable review rating - turn the star rating system on or off.
• Verification required - restrict who may leave a rating (for example, require that the reviewer is an enrolled or verified user).
• Verification label - the message shown to users who are not allowed to review yet.

Relationship to LearnDash’s own reviews

When the addon’s review system is active, it disables LearnDash’s built-in review widgets so you do not end up with two competing review displays on the same page.

Migrating existing reviews

If you already have reviews from another source, the addon includes a migration tool:

• Admin: a Review Migration page under the LearnDash LMS menu (requires the manage_options capability). It runs the migration in batches and shows progress.
• WP-CLI: run wp reign-ld migrate-reviews for a scripted migration.

Both paths move older reviews into the addon’s comment-based review format. See AJAX and WP-CLI.