Create Category or Course Type filtered URLS to embed on your website

As you already know, setting your courses up with the correct and smart categories/types is very important for the website guest navigating through your website. In this user guide I will explain how to create a category or type specific url so you can add buttons to your website (CourseCo or your own website). This means when a website user selects the link, they will be directed to the course-list page with the specific category pre-selected.

💡 CourseCo’s Product Owner Top Tips

• Create a specific url for all your categories or course types

• Embed these URLS in multiple areas from Buttons to menus, panels and Footers - website users work in lots of ways, so make it really easy for your clients to find what they need.

• You could even place the URL in a automated email for marketing purposes!

See image below which describes visually what filtered.

How to create a Category specific URL

1. Firstly, you need an example url to build on

   1. EXAMPLE URL - https://YOURWEBSITEURL.ie/course-list.html?category=x

2. Editing the URL - All you need to edit is

   1. Open your CourseCo website front end

   2. Edit the category id to match the specific category id - /course-list.html?category=1

Outcome: you have a URL that looks something like this https://Yourdomain/course-list.html?category=1

How to create a Type specific URL

1. Firstly, you need an example url to build on

   1. EXAMPLE URL - https://YOURWEBSITEURL.ie/course-list.html?type=11

2. Editing the URL - All you need to edit is

   1. Open your CourseCo website front end

   2. Edit the category id to match the specific category id - /course-list.html?category=1

Outcome: you have a URL that looks something like this https://Yourdomain/course-list.html?type=11

How to find the category id or type to add to your URL

1. Login as an admin

2. Go to Courses

3. Open Categories or types, open a specific category

4. Review the URL at the top of the page - you should see the id in the title

   1. example https://yourdomain/admin/courses/edit_category/?id=1

5. In the above example id 1 is the category.

6. Now add this id to your url