Controlling the Course Display

By now, you have noticed the output of course information at the beginning and end of each post. Let’s quickly go over how to control the display of that content.

Display Settings

Simple Course Creator comes with minimal design opinions. It is styled to inherit the design of your theme. Therefore, the Display Settings focus on positioning and accenting the markup rather than designing.

By default, the post listing will display at the top of the content in each included post. You can adjust that to display it at the bottom, both the top and the bottom, or to not show it at all (but why?).

The post listing itself is an ordered list, but can also be displayed as a bullet list or not list indicator at all. The latter is great if you intend to design things yourself.

Sorting and ordering the posts allows what you would expect from WordPress queries. If you’d like to sort the posts by title and display them in descending order, you have the freedom to do so.

While viewing a post that is in a course, that post title will need to stand out in a “you are here” fashion. The current post can be plain text, bold, italic, or strike through.

Lastly, to keep from flooding your content with lists of links, the post listing is collapsed by default and expanded by clicking a toggle button. This is done with a tiny snippet of JavaScript. To disable this behavior and display the full course by default, simply disable the JavaScript.

The Show Author and Show Date toggles control whether post meta appears beneath each item in the listing — the author name and publish date. Both can be enabled or disabled independently.

The Front Display toggle controls whether a course indicator appears beneath post excerpts on the blog home, archive pages, and search results. It’s on by default and can be turned off here.