Per-Course Options

Some options are set on an individual course from the course editor, not in the global settings. When you edit a course you will find the addon’s meta boxes in the sidebar.

Custom cover photo

The addon adds a custom cover photo meta box to the course editor. Select or upload an image to use as the course’s cover photo, then update the course. The chosen attachment ID is stored on the course (_custom_cover_photo_id meta), and you can remove it to fall back to the default.

The media picker labels (“Select or Upload Custom Cover Photo”, “Use this photo”, “Remove Cover Photo”, “No cover photo selected”) are provided by the addon’s admin script.

Link a course to a BuddyPress group

When BuddyPress is active, the course editor gains a control to link the course to a BuddyPress group. The linked group ID is stored on the course (reign_bp_group_field meta) and mirrored on the group.

Linking a course to a group enables the community features described in BuddyPress integration:

• Students who enroll in the course are auto-joined to the linked group.
• The linked group shows a Courses tab listing the course.
• You can manually add, remove or bulk-enroll students to the group. See Group enrollment management.

Default course image

When a course has no thumbnail, the addon falls back to a bundled default course image. Developers can override the default URL through course settings/filters; see Helper functions.