Now, in this article, we're going to explore steps 4 and 5, creating our product categories and posting our course material.
As in the previous articles, we have all the content and data needed in our checklist already organized into folders. This simplifies the creation process.
To start, go to your product page.
The first thing we need to do is set our product category. Click Blank Category.
We'll add a title for the category. All of our information is on a previously-created document, so we'll copy and paste the title from our document in the field.
And we’ll do the same thing to fill in the description field.
To the right, we can also add a thumbnail image for our category. The suggested resolution is 1280x720 pixels.
Click select image.
And in the popup, click Choose file, locate the image you want to use, select it, and click open.
Once the image has appeared, click Upload.
Then, click Save at the top right, and now our category page is complete.
A message will appear at the top right to confirm that the category has been successfully updated.
Great! We've finished Step 4. Now let's move on to Step 5 - adding posts to our category.
Click the product title at the top to go back to the main product page.
Here you can also add subcategories to your main categories, but we're going to skip that for the moment.
Instead, we want to add content to our newly-created category in the form of a post. Click Blank Post.
This opens a page to create a new post. The content we want to add is the first video in our course. Click Select Video.
This opens your system file browser. For this demo, we already have the content organized, so we'll upload the video from our local folder.
Select the video file you want to upload and then click Open.
This will start uploading the video to our post.
Once the video is uploaded, we'll need to add more information and content on this page. Note that the post title has been automatically changed from the video.
To start, we'll add a post thumbnail image to the right.
Click select image.
In the popup, click Choose file, locate the logo image you want to use, select it, and click open.
Once the image has appeared, click Upload.
Our Lesson video and thumbnail image have been successfully added. Now it's time to fill in the post details.
Below the video field, the title has already been populated from the video file.
Let’s select the category below the title.
Then in the body field, you can use the text editor to provide a short description of your post. We've already copied and pasted our text here.
Lastly, we'll click Save at the bottom right to save our post content.
Now click on the title at the top to go back to your product page.
Here you can see that our first post has been created.
To add another post, click on the plus sign to the right of the category title.
And then click Add Post from the dropdown menu.
Let's add a title to our second post
We've copied and pasted the title from our document.
And then click Save.
Great! Our Second post has been created.
Now we need to add content. Click the post title to open it.
This is the same view that we used to create our first post. Repeat the same steps and click save in the top right.
As you can see, we've added 3 more posts under our main category to give us a total of four.
Now click on the green tick mark to the right of the category title.
A list will expand with three options. If the category is published, i.e. has a green tick mark, you can change the status back to draft and vice versa.
The third option is Drip - an ability to drip out course content over time. If we have five courses, we can drip them out over time (in days) intervals, which we can set here.
To check this out, let’s click Drip now.
This opens the Configure Drip Settings popup. Here you can set the number of days after which the course content will be accessible.
If you set the drip days value to 1, it means that the user will get their course content after a gap of one day instead of having all the content delivered at once. You can set this value any number of days you like.
Once you set the drip days value, remember to click Save.
The Drip value will be displayed in front of the product title and the green tick will be changed into blue indicating that this product has a Drip days value.
Now let's see how the membership site looks - click Preview under the title.
This is the front page of our membership site.
Let's click the first post - Connecting Google Calendar.
And here we can see how our post is presented.
To the right of the video, links to all posts in our main category have been added for easy navigation.
In the next article, we'll go over how to create offers for your digital products.