WordPress Course Catalog Plugin - How To - Create and Show Multiple Catalogs

How To - Create and Show Multiple Catalogs

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With the WordPress Course Catalog plugin, it's possible to show multiple catalogs, each with a selection of your courses.

Use Case Example

Examples of how to organize your courses into different catalogs:

• Marketing courses / Programming courses / Analytics courses
• Introductory / Advanced / Master
• Short / Semester / 2-year / 3-year / 4-year
• Baking Cakes / Sweet Pies / Other Recipes

Creating a Catalog

Head to Admin Dashboard → CM Course Catalog Pro → Catalogs.

Catalog Management Screen

You a are in the catalog management screen. To the left you can create catalogs and to the right all catalogs are listed.

Creating Catalog

You can fill these fields:

• Name- The name of your catalog. Obligatory.
• Slug - The URL-friendly version of the name. If this field is left empty, it will be automatically generated.
• Description - This may or not be shown, depending of the template

• Catalog URL - Used for the "back to catalog" link.

  Write it down without the domain. For instance, if the full address is www.site.com/catalog, write only /catalog.

  Only used in the Course Catalog view. Learn more: Catalog Appearance (Choose View, Hide Elements)

• Back link Catalog URL label - Label in the "back to catalog" link
• Categories - Which categories apply to this catalog. This is the most important setting.

• Custom taxonomies -  If taxonomies are enabled, you can choose one or multiple.

  Learn more: Taxonomies (Custom Categories)

Shortcuts

When editing a category or a taxonomy, you can quickly add them to a catalog.

TIP: Finding Catalog ID

In order to add catalogs to the site, you will need their ID.

You can find the ID easily from the catalog table.

Adding a Catalog to the Site

To show a catalog in your site, use the shortcode  [cmcc_course] .

Parameters

• Content (Change which courses appear)
  • catalog_id - the ID of the Catalog you want to show with the list of categories.
  • cmcustomtax - the slug (single or comma separated) of the Custom Taxonomy 1 from which the course should be displayed.
  • cmcustomtax2 - the slug (single or comma separated) of the Custom Taxonomy 2 from which the course should be displayed.
  • cmcustomtax3 - the slug (single or comma separated) of the Custom Taxonomy 3 from which the course should be displayed.
  • cmcustomtax4 - the slug (single or comma separated) of the Custom Taxonomy 4 from which the course should be displayed.
  • course_ids - the IDs of the course you only want to show in directory. Value should be an ID, or comma separated IDs.
  • exclude_ids - the IDs of the course you want to exclude from displaying in directory. Value should be an ID, or comma separated IDs.
  • backlink - the URL of the backlink which should return the user to the main index. 
• Visual (Change the visual of the catalog)
  • backlink_label - the label for the backlink used in the Dashboard view of the Course Catalog Index.
  • readmore - the label for the button allowing to display the additional information in Course Catalog view filtered by category.
  • targeturl - the URL in which the course catalog result will be displayed filtered by category (in Course Catalog view).
  • rtl - when it is enabled it will add support to right-to-left languages.

Examples

[cmcc_course catalog_id="1"] - Shows catalog with the ID 1.

[cmcc_course catalog_id="1" exclude_ids="1000,1001"] - Shows catalog with the ID 1, but excluding two courses (with ID 1000 and 1001).

[cmcc_course catalog_id="1" targeturl="/all-courses"] - Shows catalog with ID 1, and the go back button redirects to the "all-courses" page.

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