Setting up WordPress

Flash Reference decks can go on a WordPress website as well as in your LMS. You turn WordPress on and install our plugin once; then instructors copy each deck's shortcode into a page.

Turn on WordPress#

1. Open Settings and select the Integrations tab.
2. Tick Enable. It's saved straight away, and instructors now see a WordPress Short Code button on each deck.
3. Select Download Plugin to get the plugin.

Install the plugin#

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin.
2. Choose the file you downloaded, select Install Now, then Activate.

Save students' progress with a site secret#

Without a secret, anyone can study a deck on your site, but Flash Reference can't be sure who's studying, so it doesn't save their progress. With a secret, your site signs each visit, and logged-in visitors' marks and review schedules are saved like they are from your LMS.

1. In Flash Reference, under Signed launches, select Create site secret, and copy it.
2. In WordPress, go to Settings → Flash Reference and paste it into Site secret. Save.
3. Back in Flash Reference, Last signed launch shows the date once a visitor studies a deck.

This needs version 1.1 or later of the plugin. To change the secret, select Replace secret, then paste the new one into WordPress straight away: launches using the old secret aren't signed.

Choose who can study#

In WordPress, Settings → Flash Reference also has Require login:

• Off (the default): visitors who aren't logged in can study as guests. Nothing is saved for guests.
• On: visitors who aren't logged in see Log in to study this deck. instead of the deck.

Add decks to pages#

Instructors copy a deck's shortcode and paste it into a page. See Putting a deck on a WordPress site. Visitors who are logged in when they study count toward your active students and show in each deck's results under WordPress. Guests aren't counted.