Works with
Thinkific, WordPress or any website.
The same design goes on all three. What changes is how it installs, how it updates, and how much it can know about the person looking.
Side by side
What each one gets.
Thinkific gets the most, because a connected site can tell Brackits who is looking. WordPress gets a plugin that renders designs on your server. Everywhere else gets a snippet that behaves the same way, minus the extras.
Swipe the table sideways to see all three.
| Integration | Thinkific | WordPress | Any website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs with | The Brackits app. Connect your site and the loader script your designs need is added for you. | The Brackits plugin, for WordPress 6.0 or later and PHP 7.4 or later. Connect with one click. | A placeholder div and one script tag, pasted into the page. |
| Where a design goes | A Brackits section in the Site Builder, or its placeholder in any rich-text field. Floating designs load site-wide. | A block, a shortcode, the classic editor's button, or automatically in the header or footer if your theme supports it. | Wherever you paste the snippet. |
| After you republish | Live on the next page load. An SEO snapshot is a copy, so you paste it again. | Brackits tells the plugin to refresh, and the plugin keeps the last good copy if it can't reach us. | Live on the next page load. |
| Search engines | An SEO snapshot puts the design's content in the page source. | SEO mode, the default, writes the design into the page on your server. | Not in the page source: the design renders in the visitor's browser. |
| Personalization | Your course catalog, and a signed-in learner's enrollments and progress while the section's personalization box is ticked. Never their name or email. | None. | None. |
| Blog | Blog sections that come with the app. | The blog's snippet in a Custom HTML block. The plugin doesn't place blogs. | The blog's snippet. |
| Interactive lessons | Hold back Complete & continue in a Text lesson. | Show and work, without holding anything back. | Show and work, without holding anything back. |
| Forms and data tables | Yes. | Yes. | Yes. |
| Enroll button | Puts a signed-in learner into a free course with one click. | No. | No. |
| Style isolation | Shadow DOM, except the SEO snapshot, which sits in the page. | Shadow DOM in Isolated mode. SEO mode sits in the page, where broad theme CSS can reach it. | Shadow DOM. |
Setting up
How each one installs.
Thinkific
01
Connect.
In Brackits, open Integrations, choose Thinkific and approve the connection. The loader script is installed for you.
02
Point a project at it.
Turn the Thinkific connection on in the project's settings. A project maps to one Thinkific site.
03
Place.
Add the Brackits section in the Site Builder and paste the design's embed token, or paste its placeholder into a lesson or page.
WordPress
01
Install the plugin.
Download it from Brackits and upload it under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
02
Connect.
Go to Settings → Brackits, click Connect to Brackits and approve the site. No key to copy.
03
Point a project at it.
Pick the project under Project settings → WordPress site, publish, and place designs with the Brackits Design block or a shortcode.
Any website
01
Publish.
Publish the design in Brackits.
02
Copy the snippet.
Its embed snippet is a placeholder div and a script tag.
03
Paste it.
Put it where the design should appear. A floating design needs only the script tag.
Questions
Can one design go on more than one site?
Yes. Its snippet works on any page, so the same design can sit on your Thinkific site and anywhere else at once, and republishing it updates each of them.
Why doesn't the WordPress plugin list my blog?
The plugin places designs, not blogs. Put the blog's snippet in a Custom HTML block instead, and it renders the way it does on any other site.
Do changes reach WordPress straight away?
When you republish, Brackits tells the plugin to fetch the new version. A site connected by pasting a site key isn't told, and picks the change up within five minutes.
Can a design know who is looking on WordPress?
No. Learner details come from a connected Thinkific site, through its Brackits section. On WordPress and other sites, Brackits sends a design nothing about the visitor.
Get started
Start where your site already is.
Connect Thinkific or WordPress, or paste a snippet anywhere else. The same design goes on all three.
Every plan publishes to all three.