Tiger LMS can award a Certificate of Completion when a student finishes a course. You design reusable HTML templates, attach one to a course, and the certificate is issued automatically at 100% completion — each with a unique, verifiable link. Certificates are a Pro feature.
Where: WP Admin → Tiger LMS → Certificates.
Templates
A certificate template is an HTML design — for example a heading, the student’s name, the course title and an issue line. Give it a Name and edit the Template HTML. Templates are stored privately (admin-only design assets), never published as public pages.
Merge tokens
Drop these tokens into the template body; they are replaced when the certificate is rendered for a student:
{{student_name}}— the recipient’s display name.{{course_title}}— the completed course.{{date}}— the issue date.{{cert_id}}— the short certificate ID.{{verify_url}}— the public verification link.
Attaching a template to a course
In the Course Builder, open the course’s pricing & access options and choose a certificate template. A course with no template attached simply never issues certificates.
How certificates are issued
- A student reaches 100% of a course that has a template attached.
- Tiger LMS mints one certificate record with a unique verification hash and logs it. The process is idempotent — reaching 100% again never mints a second certificate.
- The student receives the Certificate issued email and can view or download the certificate from their dashboard.
Admin issue / re-issue
From the Students screen you can issue a certificate to a specific student manually — this does not require 100% progress (but the course must have a template). Re-issuing mints a fresh verification hash, which invalidates the old link. The student is emailed only on a first-ever issue, never on a re-issue.
Verification
Every certificate carries an unguessable per-issuance hash, so its authenticity can be checked at a public URL of the form /certificate/<hash>. To revoke a certificate, delete its record — the verification link then stops resolving.
Troubleshooting
A student finished the course but got no certificate.
Confirm a template is attached to that course in the Course Builder, and that the student is genuinely at 100%. No template means no certificate — attach one, then use the admin issue action if you need to backfill.
A verification link stopped working.
The certificate was either re-issued (which replaces the hash) or its record was deleted (revoked). Re-issue from the Students screen to generate a current link.