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Sensei LMS Certificates

By Automattic

Learning Management Systems (LMS) / Course Creation & Management

Reviewed by Omar Dabbas

Trusted WordPress expert with 20+ years of experience evaluating plugins for the WP ecosystem.

Sensei LMS Certificates Review - In-Depth Analysis

Award your students with a certificate of completion after finishing a course. Customize designs to make each certificate unique.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.92/10

User Rating

1/5 (based on 1+ reviews)

Active Installations

4,000+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Award your students with a certificate of completion for their completed courses. There’s no feeling quite like it. You’ve studied hard, taken your test and passed. After all that effort, you’re finally at the end of the course. You want to share this accolade with everyone. Print out your certificate!

With Sensei LMS Certificates, your students are awarded a certificate for each course they complete through your online school. These certificates can be downloaded, printed and framed on their office wall, or stuck up on the fridge for the entire family to enjoy. If you’d like to make certificates public for all to view, that’s available as well.

Sensei LMS Certificates includes an advanced certificate design system. Through this system, you can upload your own background image, place and style the size, typeface and colour of the various pieces of text on the certificate and truly create a unique design best suited to your online school.

If you don’t fancy yourself as a designer, or would prefer to get up and running in not much time, Sensei LMS Certificates includes a stylish default certificate design, suited to any genre of online school.

When activating Sensei LMS Certificates, you will be prompted to generate certificates for each student who has already completed a course. Thankfully, this can be done, for all students, with the click of a button.

If your students complete a single course, and receive their certificate for the hard work they’ve done, they will be statistically more likely to continue on to a further course, in order to re-live the rewarding experience of receiving a certificate for their efforts.

We look forward to seeing your students light up with excitement when they receive their certificates for all the hard work they’ve done in completing your courses.

Key Features include easily-customised certificate design, lean code for a pleasant experience, and intuitive integration with Sensei LMS.

Comparing to Alternatives

Sensei LMS Certificates faces competition from several other LMS certificate plugins that offer more active development and support.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Integrates directly with Sensei LMS for seamless certificate issuance.
Simple to use for basic certificate needs.
No cost as it is a free plugin.
Lightweight with minimal impact on site performance.

Weaknesses

Plugin appears abandoned with no recent updates.
Security-related pull requests ignored, raising concerns.
Lacks advanced customization features found in alternatives.
Limited user support and community engagement.

User Sentiment Analysis

With only one rating at 1 star, user sentiment is overwhelmingly negative, focusing on abandonment and security concerns.

Positive highlights

Common complaints

Plugin is abandoned with no active maintenance.
Security-related pull requests are ignored and closed without resolution.
Users are advised to avoid this plugin due to security risks.
Lack of responsiveness from the development team on critical issues.

Weaknesses

No recent updates or fixes to address issues.
Security concerns due to ignored pull requests.
Poor communication and support from developers.

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Users who require a simple certificate solution tightly integrated with Sensei LMS and are comfortable with minimal support.

Not ideal for

Anyone needing a secure, actively maintained plugin or advanced certificate customization should avoid this plugin due to abandonment and security risks.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version offers basic certificate functionality integrated with Sensei LMS without additional cost.

Final Verdict

Sensei LMS Certificates is currently not recommended due to its abandonment and unresolved security concerns, despite its integration with Sensei LMS. Users seeking reliable and secure certificate solutions should consider alternative plugins with active development and support.

While the plugin is free and simple, the lack of updates and ignored security issues significantly diminish its value and safety, making it unsuitable for most users at this time.