Installation

Install CourseGlade free and Pro, and understand what activation sets up.

Requirements

On activation CourseGlade prepares everything you need:

Database tables for enrollments, progress, orders, quiz attempts, coupons, earnings, and more
Roles — CourseGlade Instructor and CourseGlade Student — plus custom capabilities added to administrators and editors
Default settings — currency USD, default commission 70%, minimum withdrawal $50, earnings maturity 7 days, 12 courses per page
Difficulty terms — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, All Levels
Pages — created and assigned automatically (below)

Your WordPress default registration role is left untouched — plain subscribers are promoted to the student role only when they first enroll.

Each page is created with the matching shortcode and remembered by setting (not slug), so renaming or moving is safe:

Page	Shortcode
Courses	`[courseglade_courses]`
Dashboard	`[courseglade_dashboard]`
Course Checkout	`[courseglade_checkout]`
Become an Instructor	`[courseglade_become_instructor]`
Student Registration	`[courseglade_auth tab="register"]`
Login	`[courseglade_auth tab="login"]`
Forgot Password	`[courseglade_forgot_password]`
Reset Password	`[courseglade_reset_password]`

If a valid page already exists, it’s kept rather than duplicated. Page assignments live in Settings → General → Pages.

Pro is an addon layer that requires the free plugin to be active.

Download courseglade-lms-pro.zip from your purchase receipt.
Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the zip, and install.
Activate. If the free plugin is missing, Pro deactivates itself with a notice — install free first.

Go to CourseGlade → Addons. Every Pro addon has its own toggle. Only enabled addons load code, so keep unused ones off.