CAJE Course Builder is for creators who sell a cohort-style video course without running a cohort. Each student’s schedule starts when they buy: week 1 opens right away, a new week unlocks every 7 days (or whatever interval you choose), and access ends a set number of days after the final week.

Weekly drip, per student

Build the curriculum by dragging lessons into weeks.
Unlocks happen at a time of day you choose, in your site’s timezone, and stay correct across daylight saving changes.
A live summary shows exactly when the last week unlocks and when access ends, e.g. “Week 6 unlocks on day 35. Access ends on day 125.”
Locked lessons show their title and unlock date, never their content. Videos are only sent to the page once a student is allowed to watch.

Selling with Stripe

New students create an account right on the course page (name, email, password) and go straight to checkout. No confirmation email to dig out first.
Stripe’s hosted Checkout: card details never touch your site.
Stripe Tax support for sales tax and VAT.
The webhook is set up for you when you save your key.
Refund from WordPress; access ends when Stripe confirms the refund.
Missed webhooks are caught by an hourly check with Stripe.
Free courses get an “Enroll for free” button.

Emails students actually need

A welcome email, one each time a week unlocks, reminders before access ends (30, 7 and 1 days by default) and one when it ends.
Each email goes out once, even if scheduled tasks run late or twice.
Sent through wp_mail(), so your SMTP plugin applies. Templates can be overridden in your theme.

Student dashboard

A My Courses block and [cajecb_my_courses] shortcode: unlocked weeks, when the next one unlocks, and days of access left.
Students land there after logging in.

Set up in minutes

Courses Setup walks you from a fresh install to a test purchase: basics, Stripe, student accounts, emails and your first course, then a checklist of anything still missing.

Video

Embed YouTube or Vimeo videos per lesson. For protected video that can’t be shared, the separate Pro add-on adds Bunny Stream uploads from the lesson editor with signed, expiring player links.

For developers

WP-CLI: wp cajecb enroll --student=…, wp cajecb status --student=… --now=… to see any student’s access on any date, and wp cajecb sweep --now=… to walk a schedule without waiting. --student is the student; WP-CLI already uses --user for the account that runs the command.
Hooks for gateways, video providers, features, merge tags and email content.
Theme-overridable templates in caje-course-builder/.
The screens in build/ are compiled. The readable source is included in src/.

Privacy and external services

This plugin stores, in your WordPress database: enrollments (user, course, dates and status), orders (user, course, amount, tax, currency, status and the Stripe Checkout Session and payment IDs) and a log of which course emails each student was sent. It adds suggested text to your privacy policy, supports WordPress’s personal data export and erasure tools, and removes a user’s enrollments when the user is deleted. Orders are kept as sales records.

It connects to these services:

Stripe (payments), only after you add a Stripe secret key:

When a logged-in buyer clicks Buy, the plugin creates a Checkout Session at api.stripe.com, sending the course name, price, currency, the buyer’s email address and WordPress user ID, and your site’s address. The buyer then pays on checkout.stripe.com.
When you save your key, or check the connection, it creates or checks the webhook endpoint for your site and reads your Stripe Tax status.
Hourly, it asks Stripe for Checkout Sessions from the last 72 hours to catch any payment whose webhook didn’t arrive.
When you click Refund, it creates a refund for that payment.
Stripe’s Services Agreement and Privacy Policy.

YouTube and Vimeo (video embeds), only on lessons you’ve given a YouTube or Vimeo link, and only for students allowed to watch them: the student’s browser loads the player from www.youtube-nocookie.com or player.vimeo.com (with Vimeo’s “do not track” option). YouTube’s Terms and Google’s Privacy Policy; Vimeo’s Terms and Privacy Policy.

The plugin makes no other external requests, and sends no usage data.

Credits

The curriculum screen’s drag and drop uses dnd kit (MIT license).