Using a Custom Template for LearnDash Courses

One of those niche little things but I don’t see a lot of folks sharing WordPress snippets these days. You have a LearnDash-powered course. It has pretty decent templates out of the box. You can certain override them in your theme directory, but the documentation s rather light. There’s a plugin you can use, but why carry the extra third-party overhead? It would be great if the plugin simply allowed you to use your default template, but I didn’t see that option. It’s one of their two options. I think I have a fairly clean way to work around that. // Override LearnDash template function geoff_learndash_template( $template, $template_name ) { // Use course.php for all LearnDash post types if ( in_array( $template_name, array( 'single-lesson.php', 'single-topic.php', 'single-quiz.php', 'single-course.php' ) ) ) { return get_template_directory() . '/course.php'; } return $template; } add_filter( 'learndash_template', 'geoff_learndash_template', 10, 2 ); I ain’t the best programmer in the…