Meadow Credentials

Meadow Credentials turns course completions, uploaded evidence, and offline assessments into secure, verifiable digital certificates and Open Badges. It is built for organisations that handle sensitive learner data and need a credentialing system that takes UK GDPR and Cyber Essentials seriously.

Define a qualification once as a framework of requirements, connect it to the events that already happen on your site, and let the engine issue, track, and (where needed) automatically revoke credentials.

Features

• Automatic credential issuance driven by your existing LMS events, with built-in support for LearnDash, Tutor LMS, LearnPress, LifterLMS, Sensei, and WordPress core actions.
• A visual framework builder for defining multi-step qualification pathways with nested requirements, with no limit on the number of frameworks.
• A certificate designer with custom branding, colours, logo, signature, and your own issuing company name.
• Publicly verifiable certificates with shareable verification links.
• A learner-facing digital wallet to display earned credentials.
• A secure, encrypted document vault for sensitive evidence (passports, DBS checks, certificates), stored on disk with AES-256 encryption rather than in the database.
• A supervisor approval workflow for documents that require manual verification, with per-document reviewer assignment.
• Offline / practical assessments with grading and scoring.
• Expiry tracking with a nightly compliance sweep that automatically suspends credentials backed by expired evidence.
• Custom hook mapping: connect any recognised LMS, membership, or commerce action to a requirement.
• GDPR-friendly evidence handling: approved and rejected files are permanently shredded from disk.

Shortcodes

• [mtdc_qual_dashboard] — the learner’s digital wallet of earned credentials.
• [mtdc_qual_progress id="123"] — a progress checklist for a specific framework.
• [mtdc_submit_evidence] — a front-end form for learners to upload evidence (optionally scoped to one framework with id="123").
• [mtdc_log_assessment] — the assessor grading portal for practical assessments.

External Services

This plugin does not connect to any external or third-party service. Certificate verification QR codes are generated locally in the browser using a bundled open-source library. Updates are delivered through the standard WordPress.org update mechanism.