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Instructor Public Profile

A Learnomy 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.

Instructor Public Profile first view

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.