The course archive

There is no course archive. POM LMS does not create a page that lists your courses, and this article explains what to do instead.

What that means

• No /courses listing page exists.
• Courses do not appear in the menu editor's automatic post-type list.
• There is no built-in course grid, catalogue or search.

Courses are individual pages. The plugin's job is what happens inside a course — access, lessons, progress — not the shop window in front of it.

Build the catalogue yourself

You need one page listing the courses you sell. There are three sensible ways to build it, all outside POM LMS.

A page you write by hand

A normal WordPress page with a section per course: image, title, a paragraph, a button to the course or to the product.

Best for a small, stable catalogue. It is the fastest to build, reads exactly as you intend, and needs editing whenever the catalogue changes.

A theme content module

POM Theme's page builder can query the course post type and lay the results out as cards or a grid, with the featured image and excerpt.

Best for a catalogue that grows, since new courses appear without editing the page.

The shop

If every course is sold through a WooCommerce product, your shop pages already are the catalogue. Send buyers to the product; the course is what they get after purchase.

Best for paid-only catalogues, because prices, categories, search and the cart come free.

Most sites end up combining the last two: the shop sells, and a curated page introduces.

Adding courses to menus

Courses do not appear in the menu editor's post list, so add them as Custom Links, pasting the course URL.

For a menu entry that goes to your catalogue, link the page or shop page you built above.

What students use instead

Once a student has access, they do not need your catalogue. My courses in the account area lists everything open to them, and that is the link to put in purchase confirmations and welcome messages.

See My courses.

Search

Courses are ordinary posts and can appear in site search results, subject to your theme's search configuration. Lessons can too — which is usually not what you want, since a lesson out of context is meaningless.

If your theme lets you choose which post types are searchable, include courses and exclude lessons.

Verify

1. Open your catalogue page and confirm every course you sell is on it.
2. Confirm each entry links to the right place — the course for free courses, the product for paid ones.
3. Confirm the menu reaches the catalogue.
4. Search the site for a course name and confirm the result is useful.