We built a membership site for early childhood education.
This is How We Helped An Award-winning Educator Build A Membership Site For Early Childhood Learning
Playful Learning serves as an online resource for Early Childhood Education since 2008. After encountering some growing pains, Mariah Bruehl and her team decided 2022 was the right time for a change. Playful Learning had evolved greatly over the years and now needed a more capable platform to serve the parents, teachers, and children it supports.
Playful Learning, as a whole, was divided into two separate domains and now needed to be unified. Additionally, online educational materials needed to be migrated from a simple theme-based learning management system to a more capable and robust platform, in this case.
At the same time, course access was to be administered through a membership plugin, Paid Memberships Pro, as it was done since Playful Learning Was born. This plugin helped them manage their subscriptions, as members can subscribe to a membership box containing educational activities young learners can complete at home, along with the other online resources they offer.
Enter the WooNinjas. Mariah’s team reached out to our team of WordPress developers and LMS experts in the search of a solution that would solve all of their roadblocks.
Here’s what we came up with. But first, let’s look at the specific challenges our team was entrusted with resolving.
The Challenges:
- Merging Playful Learning’s two separate WordPress sites into a single domain with renewed web design.
- Creating three different educational resource types including Lessons, Kits, and Workshops.
- Migrating eLearning content from a simple theme-based LMS to a more powerful learning management system - LearnDash LMS.
- Migrating users and their membership data to a new Paid Memberships Pro WordPress site and integrating the membership plugin with the new LMS
Our Solution:
Finding the ideal Learning Management System
After carefully studying our client’s platform, its current shortcomings, and its requirements, the Wooninjas team proposed using LearnDash LMS to host their online courses. In order to integrally transfer data in a safe and efficient manner, our team developed a custom migration plugin. This tool allowed us to migrate the old site’s theme LMS data to the new LearnDash site.
