Instructor Public Profile

Every instructor gets a public profile page at /instructor/{username}/ that shows their headline, bio, expertise, links, and published courses. Instructors edit it themselves from a self-service editor in their account, so the site owner does not have to maintain it.

What you can do

Give students a public page at /instructor/{username}/ with your name, avatar, headline, bio, expertise tags, social links, and a grid of your published courses.
Show at-a-glance stats – how many courses you teach, how many students, and your average rating when you have one.
Let students page through all of your published courses when you have more than one page of them.
Edit your own profile from My Account -> Instructor profile (/account/instructor-profile/) – no admin access needed.
Link out to your website, Twitter / X, and LinkedIn.

How to use it

Step 1 – open your profile editor

Go to My Account -> Instructor profile (/account/instructor-profile/). This is reached from the instructor (teaching) side of your account, not the learner menu.

Step 2 – fill in “About you”

Add a Headline (a short professional tagline), a Bio, and your Expertise as a comma-separated list of skills. The expertise list is shown as tags on your public profile.

Step 3 – add your links

Fill in your Website, Twitter / X handle, and LinkedIn URL. Each link becomes an icon in the social row on your public page. Leave any of them blank to hide that icon.

Step 4 – save and view

Click Save profile. The page shows a link to your public profile so you can open it in a new tab and see exactly what students see.

Settings and options

Public URL. Your profile lives at /instructor/{username}/, based on your username. The base segment (instructor) is set by the site’s route configuration.
What appears is what you filled in. Empty fields are hidden – for example the bio, expertise row, or a social icon only show when you have entered them.
Stats are automatic. Course count, student count, and average rating are computed from your published courses; average rating only shows once you have ratings.
Missing instructor. A profile URL whose username matches no user returns a 404.
Course list pagination. Your published courses are shown in a grid with previous / next paging when they run past one page.

For developers

Templates:

templates/instructor-profile.php – the public page, populated by Instructor_Profile_View_Data.
templates/account-instructor-profile.php – the self-service editor, populated by Account_Instructor_Profile_View_Data.

Routes:

instructor-profile – the public route (/instructor/{username}/), built with \Learnomy\route_url( 'instructor-profile', [ 'slug' => $user->user_login ] ).
account-instructor-profile – the editor route (/account/instructor-profile/).

REST API and storage:

POST /account/instructor-profile (namespace learnomy/v1) – saves the current instructor’s headline, bio, expertise, website_url, twitter_handle, and linkedin_url to the Free lrn_instructors row the public profile reads.

Pointing an instructor’s name somewhere else:

learnomy_instructor_profile_url – filter (string $url, WP_User|null $instructor) for the link behind an instructor’s name on course and lesson surfaces. Plenty of sites already have a better page for a person than this one – a BuddyPress or BuddyNext member profile, a WordPress author archive, a corporate bio – and this repoints them in one place instead of per template.

// Send instructor names to the BuddyPress member profile instead.
add_filter( 'learnomy_instructor_profile_url', function ( string $url, ?object $instructor ) {
    if ( ! $instructor || ! function_exists( 'bp_core_get_user_domain' ) ) {
        return $url;
    }
    return (string) bp_core_get_user_domain( (int) $instructor->ID );
}, 10, 2 );

Returning an empty string is supported and means “do not link instructor names at all” – the templates render the name as plain text, which is what a course with no instructor already does.