WordPress Course Catalog Plugin - Widgets



Widgets

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You can configure the WordPress Course Catalog plugin widgets by navigating to Admin Dashboard → Appearance → Widgets.

Navigation to the Widgets dashboard
Navigation to the Widgets dashboard

Note: WordPress renewed Widget Settings in the version 5.8. If you want to configure widgets in classic style you can use the plugin Classic Widgets.


Widgets

The plugin has four widgets:

  • Random Course
  • Categories
  • Latest Courses
  • Course Period Select

Random Course

Here you configure the following:

  • Title - How it will appear on the front-end.
  • Number of items - Amount of random courses displayed in the widget on the front-end.
  • Show category? - Enable it to display a relevant category under every course.
Random course widget - WordPress Plugin for Online Courses
Random course widget

Front-end:

Random course widget on the front-end - WordPress Plugin for Creating Online Courses
Random course widget on the front-end

Categories

Here you configure the following:

  • Title - How it will appear on the front-end.
  • Show items number? - Enable it to display amount of courses that belong to each category.
Categories widget - LMS Plugin for WordPress
Categories widget

Front-end:

Categories widget on the front-end - LMS WordPress Plugin for Courses
Categories widget on the front-end

Latest Courses

Here you configure the following:

  • Title - How it will appear on the front-end.
  • Number of items - Amount of lust published courses displayed in the widget on the front-end.
  • Show category? - Enable it to display a relevant category under every course.
Latest courses widget - WordPress Plugin for Online Courses
Latest courses widget

Front-end:

Latest courses widget on the front-end - WordPress Plugin for Courses
Latest courses widget on the front-end

Course Period Select

Note: This widget can work properly only on the Course Page.

Here you configure the following:

  • Show Date - Displays start date of the course period.
  • Show Date end - Displays end date of the course period.
  • Show Start time - Displays start time of the course meetings.
  • Show End time - Displays end time of the course meetings.
  • Show No of meetings - Displays number of the course meetings.
  • Show Location - Displays the location of the course.
  • Show Code - Displays the code of the course period.
  • Border color - Change the color of widget's border.
  • Background color - Change the color of widget's background.
  • Padding (in px) - Change the padding from the border.
Course period select widget - E Learning WordPress Plugin
Course period select widget

Front-end:

Course period select widget on the front-end - WordPress LMS Addon
Course period select widget on the front-end

Course Page Widget Area

The plugin has its own widget area called Course Page Widget Area

Course page widget area - WordPress LMS Plugin
Course page widget area

Widgets placed in this area will be displayed only on the Course Page and will only show if the cm_default template is selected. 

Choosing the cm_default template - WordPress Course Catalog Plugin
Choosing the cm_default template

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