Courses integration
Sell or share courses on ESTAGE? The Courses integration puts your live course catalog on your Genesis site.
How to trigger it
Section titled “How to trigger it”Type /courses in the chat (it starts an [Estage Courses: …] request), or just describe it.
For example:
- “add a course catalog from my ESTAGE library with category filters, 3 per row”
- “add a featured courses section for the home page”
- “add a searchable list of all my courses with covers and lesson counts”
What happens
Section titled “What happens”Genesis builds a section that fetches your real courses — names, descriptions, covers, categories, lesson counts — and renders the catalog you described. It’s live data:
- Publish a new course → it appears on the site automatically.
- Category filters and search work against your actual catalog.
Tweaking without chat
Section titled “Tweaking without chat”Like the Video Library, the built components expose options (courses shown, category, search) as Live Controls — adjust in the sidebar without an AI request.
Where the courses come from
Section titled “Where the courses come from”The catalog shows the public courses of the ESTAGE community behind your site — the one live data source, read on every visit:
- The project’s own community (the Community app, turned on in Settings → Overview) — this is what a website’s catalog reads.
- A community linked to the site through the Community toolkit (Web apps) — the catalog reads that community instead, even when it lives in a different ESTAGE project.
A community that lives in a different ESTAGE project and is not linked to the site is not read. That is the usual reason a catalog of a community you own comes back empty.
Only courses marked public are listed. Day-challenges and courses that need approval
(by license) never appear.
Seeing “No public courses yet”?
Section titled “Seeing “No public courses yet”?”- Check that your courses are public in that community.
- Check that the courses are in this project’s community (or in the community linked to the site), not in a community of another ESTAGE project.
- If you added the catalog before linking the community, ask the AI to “reload the course catalog from my community” so the section picks up the linked community.
What a click on a course does
Section titled “What a click on a course does”Each course card opens that course in your community (its preview lesson if it has one, otherwise the first lesson). Signing in, buying a paid course and taking the lessons all happen there — your site never asks visitors to register or log in. Catalogs built before this change need one AI edit (“make each course card open the course in my community”) to pick it up.
- The catalog links visitors to the courses; the course experience itself (lessons, progress, payment) runs on ESTAGE.