EasySecure Import Export Quizzes

EasySecure Import Export Quizzes lets you bulk import and export LearnDash Quizzes and Questions — including question types, answers, correct answers, and media content — using CSV or XLSX files. Export existing quizzes for backup or migration, or import new quizzes from a spreadsheet to skip hours of manual data entry.

This plugin focuses exclusively on Quizzes and Questions. It’s the companion to EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash, which handles Courses, Lessons, and Topics. Together, both plugins give you complete spreadsheet-based control over your entire LearnDash content library.

👉 Companion Plugin: For Courses, Lessons & Topics, use EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash

👉 Full Quiz Data: Export and import question titles, descriptions, question types, all answers, and correct answer mappings.

👉 Bulk Operations: Export multiple quizzes at once, or import an entire question bank from a single file.

🔌 This Is an Add-on Plugin

This plugin requires EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash to be installed and active. It will not run, and will automatically deactivate, without it.

Who Is This Plugin For?

EasySecure Import Export Quizzes is built for anyone who creates, manages, or migrates LearnDash quizzes at scale.

Course Creators & Instructional Designers
Course creators love this plugin because building quizzes manually in LearnDash is the most tedious part of course creation. Writing 50 questions with 4 answer options each means hundreds of fields to fill. With this plugin, prepare all your questions in a spreadsheet — titles, answers, correct answers, question types — and import them in one upload.

Training Companies & Certification Programs
Training companies love the bulk export and backup capability. Export your entire quiz library to XLSX, archive it, or hand it to a subject matter expert for review and updates in Excel. When they’re done, reimport the updated file — no one needs to touch the LearnDash admin.

LMS Agencies & Freelancers
Agencies building LearnDash sites for clients love the migration workflow. Export quizzes from a staging site, import them into production. Or move a client’s quiz library from one LearnDash installation to another without rebuilding every question by hand.

Schools & Universities
Education teams love that they can manage question banks in spreadsheets — a format teachers and faculty already know. No need to train staff on the LearnDash admin. They edit questions in Excel, and you import the file.

Anyone Migrating to LearnDash
Migrating from another LMS or quiz platform? Export your questions into CSV format, map them to the plugin’s structure, and import your entire question bank into LearnDash in minutes instead of recreating every quiz manually.

🎯 Export Features

• Export single or multiple quizzes — select one quiz or use the bulk action to export several at once from the LearnDash Quizzes list.
• Full question data included — each export contains question title, question description, question type, all answer options, and correct answer mappings.
• CSV and XLSX output — choose the format that fits your workflow. XLSX is great for editing in Excel; CSV works for programmatic processing.
• Media support — quiz and question content with embedded media is preserved in the export.

🎯 Import Features

• Bulk import quizzes and questions — upload a single CSV or XLSX file and the plugin creates your quizzes with all their questions, answers, and correct answer mappings.
• Structured file format — follow the plugin’s column structure to map question titles, descriptions, types, answers, and correct answers.
• Media support — import quiz and question content that includes images and media.
• Error reporting — if something in your file doesn’t match the expected format, the plugin displays an error message so you can fix and reimport.

🔒 Lightweight & Focused

• Quiz-only scope — no course, lesson, or topic logic. This plugin does one thing well: quiz and question import/export.
• No bloat — clean, lightweight code with no unnecessary dependencies.
• Requires LearnDash LMS and EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash to be installed and active.
• Tested with LearnDash LMS 5.2 on WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.2 to 8.5.

4 Steps to Import Your First Quiz

1. Prepare your file — organize your quiz questions in a CSV or XLSX spreadsheet. Include columns for question title, description, question type, answer options, and correct answers.
2. Go to the import page — navigate to Quiz Import/Export in the WordPress admin.
3. Upload and import — select your file and the plugin creates your quizzes with all questions and answers mapped correctly.
4. Verify — open the imported quizzes in LearnDash to confirm everything looks right.

Your quizzes are live and ready for students.

🔌 Part of the EasySecure LearnDash Toolkit

This plugin handles Quizzes and Questions only. For complete LearnDash content management via spreadsheet, pair it with the companion plugin:

• EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash — Courses, Lessons, Topics — with settings, media, drip schedules, pricing, and full hierarchy rebuild.
• EasySecure Import Export Quizzes (this plugin) — Quizzes, Questions — with answers, correct answers, question types, and media.

Together, both plugins give you full import/export control over every piece of LearnDash content — courses, lessons, topics, quizzes, and questions — all from simple spreadsheet files.

1. Make sure LearnDash LMS is installed and active.
2. Install and activate EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash (required dependency).
3. Upload the easysecure-import-export-quizzes folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install directly from the WordPress Plugins screen.
4. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
5. Navigate to Quiz Import/Export in the WordPress admin menu to start importing or exporting.

What file formats are supported?

CSV (.csv) and Excel (.xlsx). You can use either format for both import and export.

Can I export multiple quizzes at once?

Yes. On the LearnDash Quizzes list page, select the quizzes you want and use the bulk export action to export them all in one file.

What quiz data is included in the export?

Each export includes: question title, question description, question type, all answer options, and which answers are marked as correct. Media embedded in quiz or question content is also supported.

Does this plugin handle courses, lessons, or topics?

No. This plugin is strictly for Quizzes and Questions. For courses, lessons, and topics, use the companion plugin: EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash.

Do I need the Course Import/Export plugin to use this?

Yes. This plugin requires EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash to be installed and active — it will not run, and will automatically deactivate, without it.

What question types are supported?

Single choice, multiple choice, and sorting-style answers are fully supported, along with Matrix Sort Answer questions (including image-based answer pairs). Export an existing quiz first to see exactly how each question type is represented in the spreadsheet.

Can I use this to migrate quizzes between LearnDash sites?

Yes. Export your quizzes from one site, and import the same file into another LearnDash installation. This is the fastest way to move quiz content between staging and production, or between client sites.

Can I use this to back up my quizzes?

Yes. Export your entire quiz library to XLSX or CSV and store the file as a backup. If anything goes wrong, reimport the file to restore your quizzes.

What happens if my import file has errors?

The plugin displays an error message indicating what went wrong. The most common cause is incorrect file formatting — make sure your columns match the expected structure. Export an existing quiz first to see the correct format, then use that as a template.

Will importing overwrite existing quizzes?

No. The plugin creates new quizzes and questions from your file. It does not modify or delete existing quiz content.

1.2.0

• Compatibility: requires PHP 8.2+ and WordPress 6.9+; tested up to WordPress 7.1, LearnDash 5.2 and PHP 8.5.
• Fix: imports queued through Action Scheduler failed when run by WP-Cron (“Call to undefined function WP_Filesystem()”) and the progress bar stayed at “Preparing import…”.
• Fix: imported questions were linked to their quiz with an empty question ID, stored against the quiz post ID instead of the LearnDash quiz ID, and quiz/question mappings were saved double-serialized, so LearnDash could not list the imported questions.
• Fix: the question type is now saved where LearnDash expects it, so re-exporting imported matrix sort questions keeps the matching answers.
• Fix: exporting quizzes with images in the description no longer fails to save the images (missing parent folder).
• Fix: removed the PHP 8.2 deprecated mb_convert_encoding( ‘HTML-ENTITIES’ ) call; export no longer needs the mbstring extension.
• Fix: no longer turns off PHP deprecation reporting for the whole site.
• Fix: no longer uses ReflectionProperty::setAccessible(); answers are read through LearnDash’s own getters.
• Fix: import still works when Action Scheduler is not available (processed immediately).
• Security: single quiz export and the import progress endpoint now require the manage_options capability.
• Works with OpenSpout 3.x, 4.x and 5.x, so it keeps working with EasySecure Import Export Courses Learndash 1.2.0 (which bundles OpenSpout 4).
• One-off repair on upgrade: quizzes imported with 1.1.0 get their question lists, question IDs and question types fixed so LearnDash shows their questions. Quizzes created in LearnDash are not touched.
• The sample spreadsheet is now bundled with the plugin instead of linking to an external site.
• Remote images, videos and quiz materials are downloaded with a 30 second timeout and a 20 MB limit (filter: esiq_max_remote_file_size), and only from public URLs.
• Import jobs are stored in the database instead of the server temp folder, so they also work when the web server and cron run on different machines.
• Security: the import progress endpoint now checks a nonce; the progress script and styles only load on the plugin’s own screen; all WordPress coding standards security checks pass.
• Debug messages now go to the standard WordPress debug log, and only when WP_DEBUG is on.

1.1.0

• Initial release
• Quiz export (single & bulk)
• Quiz questions export with answers
• CSV and XLSX support