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Instructor Archive

Each course instructor gets an author archive that lists only the courses they authored. This is the page the instructors shortcode and instructor links point to.

How it works

Section titled “How it works”

When a visitor opens an author archive with ?post_type=course (for example the link from an instructor card), the addon:

  • Finds the courses authored by that user (matched against the course’s instructor meta).
  • Limits the archive query to those course IDs, so the archive shows the instructor’s courses rather than a mixed post list.

If the instructor has no courses, the query is left unchanged.

Section titled “Instructor links”

Instructor profile links resolve to the best available target, in this order:

  1. The LifterLMS Social Learning student profile, when that add-on is active.
  2. The BuddyPress member profile, when BuddyPress is active (using the current BuddyPress URL function for the installed version).
  3. The standard WordPress author posts URL otherwise.
Section titled “Related”
  • instructors shortcode for placing an instructor grid anywhere.
  • The Course Overview widget also shows the instructor on lesson pages. See Widgets.