Using the bizExaminer WordPress Plugin

Important notice: This article is about using our standalone WordPress plugin. If you are using LearnDash, checkout the documentation for our LearnDash extension here: Using the bizExaminer LearnDash Extension

This article describes how you can use the bizExaminer WordPress plugin to connect bizExaminer with your website.

With our WordPress plugin you can bring bizExaminer directly into WordPress.

Prerequisites

• WordPress installation
• bizExaminer WordPress plugin
• bizExaminer Account and associated API credentials

This tutorial assumes you have a working WordPress installation.

It also assumes that you have a bizExaminer account. You can request an account through this form.

Installing the plugin in your WordPress instance

In your WordPress instance, you have to find and install the bizExaminer plugin

1. Login as WordPress WP-Admin.
2. Go to Plugins > Add New.
3. In the Search bar, search for ‘bizExaminer’.
4. Click on Activate to start the activation of the plugin.
   Alternatively, you can also download the plugin from the WordPress plugin repository and upload the zip.

Important: We provide two plugins – a standalone plugin (“bizExaminer”) and a LearnDash extension (“bizExaminer LearnDash Extension”). Make sure to install the standalone plugin.

5. After the installation is complete, and the plugin is activated, click on Settings and select bizExaminer.
6. Add a Name for the API key entry; Note: this name will show up in the backend when you configure which API credentials to use.
7. Enter the Instance Domain for your bizExaminer instance, i.e. yourcompany.bizexaminer.com, without the www/http.
8. Enter your bizExaminer API credentials by copy/pasting them into the API Key Owner and API Key Organization fields. If you don’t have them, reach out to bizExmainer support here.
9. Click Add API-Credentials to confirm.
10. Click Save to store the configuration.
11. Optionally: You can test your credentials by clicking “Test” for a credential-set. The page will reload, and you will get a success or error message.

You can add multiple API credentials to work with different content owners or even on different bizExaminer instances.

Showing users a button to login into bizExaminer

Our plugin provides you a button, that allows users to login directly into bizExaminer and see all their exams there. The button compares the WordPress users e-mail address with the participants in bizExaminer.

Block Editor

Important: This feature required WordPress version 6.7 (released in November 2024)!

If you are using the new WordPress block editor, you can use the core WordPress “Button” block to insert the login button anywhere you want.

1. Insert the core “Buttons” block.
2. Inside the “Buttons” block you can add the “bizExaminer Login Button” button block variation.
3. In the block sidebar choose the API credentials you want to use for this button.
4. You can use all the settings and styling options of the core button block and the button is automatically linked on the frontend.

Shortcode

If you are using a page builder (like Elementor) or an older WordPress version, you can always use a shortcode to show the login button anywhere.

1. Go to Settings > bizExaminer
2. In the row of the API credentials you want to use, click the “Shortcode” symbol (second from left) to generate a shortcode for this API credentials.
3. Copy the shortcode from the modal and insert where you want the button to appear
4. Change the shortcodes text (between [bizexaminer_login_button …]TEXT[/bizexaminer_login_button] – this will be used as button label.