Do you want to add and customize your own Certificate Verification template on the website? Thrive Apprentice comes with multiple templates that you can use or create from scratch. One of these is a Certificate Verification template.
In this article, we’ll show you how you can add and customize a new Certificate Verification template.
- Accessing the Thrive Apprentice Templates
- Adding and Setting Up the Certificate Verification Template
Accessing the Thrive Apprentice Templates
To add a new certificate verification template, begin by opening your WordPress admin area, navigating to Thrive Dashboard >> Thrive Apprentice, and clicking on Design.

On the Design page, click the Edit design button within the active design block.

After clicking Edit design, you’ll be taken to a page where you’ll be able to edit the current design. On this page, click Manage Templates in the Template editor block.

Clicking Manage templates will open a page with all the available Thrive Apprentice templates.

Adding and Setting Up the Certificate Verification Template
The Thrive Apprentice templates page is where you can view all the existing templates and add new ones.
There are two ways you can set up a certificate verification template in Thrive Apprentice
- Editing the Default Certificate Verification template
- Creating a New Certificate Verification template
Editing the Default Certificate Verification Template
Like the other templates in the library, Thrive Apprentice offers a Default Certificate Verification template that you can edit and use.
To use this template, scroll down the Thrive Apprentice templates page, hover on the Default Certificate Verification template, and click Edit.

Clicking Edit will open the Default Certificate Verification template in the editor where you can make the changes you want.

Creating a New Certificate Verification Template
Thrive Apprentice allows you to create new templates from scratch and customize them further.
To create a new Certificate Verification template, open the Thrive Apprentice templates page, and click +Add New on the top right.

When you click +Add New, you’ll see a popup where you’ll need to enter the template details.

This popup asks you to enter the following details:
- New Template Name: The name you want to associate with the template.
- Choose Content Type: Select the content type you want to include in this template. You can select among options like Lesson, School Homepage, Course Overview, Module, Certificate Verification, etc.
- Choose Post Format: This field is available if you select the content type as Lesson in the previous field. This is where you can select the post format as Standard, Video or Audio based on the type of the lesson.
In this example, we’ll set the Template name and choose the content type as Certificate Verification.

After entering the template name and the content type, you’ll see two ways to add a template.
Building a Template from Scratch
Clicking on the Start from Scratch button allows you to build a template from scratch.

After you click Start from Scratch, you’ll see a new template added on the Thrive Apprentice templates page. To edit the newly created Certificate Verification template, hover over it and click Edit.

Clicking Edit will open the Certificate Verification template in the editor where you can customize everything on it.

Building Certificate Verification by Choosing a Template
Thrive Apprentice offers a variety of templates that you can pick and customize as per your needs. To create a Certificate Verification template using one such ready template, click Choose Template button on the template creation popup.

Clicking Choose Template will open a popup with available templates. On this popup, click on the template you want to use and then click Create Template.

Clicking Create Template will add the Certificate Verification template on the Thrive Apprentice templates page. To edit the Certificate Verification template hover over it and click Edit.

Clicking Edit will open the Certificate Verification template in the editor. Here, you can alter all you want and customize the template as you need.

When you finish creating a template from scratch or by editing an existing template, please ensure you click the Save Work button on the bottom left of the screen.

This will save your templates with all the changes you’ve made.
We’ve just seen how you can add a new Certificate Verification template by creating one from scratch or using an existing template.
Next, do you need help using the Certificate Verification element effectively? You can refer to our document that’ll help you understand how you can edit and use the Certificate Verification element on a template.