Announcement add-on for LearnPress

• To download add-on for LearnPress, visit ‘My Account’ on thimpress.com
• Click ‘Orders‘ and ‘View‘ your order
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• Under ‘Order Details‘, download the latest version of the plugin
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• Visit ‘WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New‘
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• Click ‘Upload Plugin‘ and choose the plugin zip files that you just downloaded. Click ‘Install Now‘ to start the installation process
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• After plugin installed successfully, click ‘Activate Plugin‘ and you will be notified that the plugin is activated
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• The plugin is shown as activated and ready to use
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• Visit ‘LearnPress > Courses’
• Try editing the course you want to publish Announcement

• Scroll down until you find Announcement tab under settings
• Set up your announcement and hit Post! It will show up on Announcement tab
• You can also set this up for multiple courses

• The emails will be using the system email of your hosting to send emails, works well with small amounts of users and mails. However, for large amounts of users, you might need a professional email service to do that for you. If you are not sure how to connect with a professional mail server, follow this tutorial.
• First of all, you might want to attach your email service provider to your site, using their corresponding plugin like Sendgrid, MailChimp. In this example, we will use Sendgrid because it’s pretty easy to use and it’s also what we are using for our servers. It would be the same with MailChimp or other mail service.

Then, please take an API key from your Sendgrid account and attached it to Settings / Sendgrid

• You can customize your Announcement email template here: LearnPress / Settings / Emails / Announcement