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title: How to Publish a Course on Your Marketing Site?
description: This section gives you access to all the courses created and published on your website. You will find drafts and published courses here. Tip: Make sure you have logged in to the Edly Discovery Site be
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# How to Publish a Course on Your Marketing Site?
### Overview
To make a course run visible to prospective students, publish it to your WordPress-powered **Discovery Site** (marketing storefront). The Discovery Site imports course data from **Open edX Studio** and displays it as searchable catalog cards where students can view syllabi, check pricing tracks, and enroll or purchase.
### Phase 1: Verify the Studio Key and Publish Status
Before attempting to register the course on your marketing storefront, you must ensure the background curriculum run is structurally finalized and live.
1. Log in to **Open edX Studio** and open your target course run.
2. Look directly at your browser's address bar and copy the complete **Course ID** string from the URL path.
- *Example key structure:* `course-v1:Organization_Code+Course_Number+Term_Run`
3. Click into your **Course Outline** workspace and verify that your sections, subsections, and units have been officially **Published**. *Note: If the outline contains only draft rows, the storefront synchronization engine will throw an indexing error.*
### Phase 2: Map and Import the Course into WordPress
With the course run live on the learning servers, you can now generate its public-facing digital storefront profile.
**Procedures:**
1. Open a new web browser tab and log in to your **WordPress Admin Panel** (`/wp-admin`) using your editor or administrator credentials.
2. From the left-hand navigation sidebar menu layout, go to **Courses \> Add New Course**.
3. Locate the integrated **Edly Import Course from Studio** utility block widget positioned on the creation canvas.
4. Paste the Course ID you copied in Phase 1 into the search field and click **Import**. The system automatically populates the course title, start dates, and configuration keys into the WordPress fields.
5. Scroll down to the main content body editor to write a compelling course summary, highlight specific learning outcomes, or outline prerequisite criteria.
6. **Assign Faculty:** Locate the *Instructors* metadata dropdown on the right-hand options panel and check the box next to the pre-registered faculty members leading this course run.
7. Scroll to the **Featured Image** panel on the lower right. Click **Set featured image** to upload a high-resolution, landscape-orientation image. This image is used as the course card thumbnail throughout the catalog.
8. **Configure pricing tracks:** In the **Enrollment Tracks** or **Course Pricing** panel on the right-hand sidebar, set the available enrollment tracks for this course run (for example, Audit, Verified, or Paid) and enter the price for any paid tracks. If this panel is not visible, confirm that pricing tracks are enabled in your WordPress plugin settings.
9. Click **Publish** in the upper-right corner.
### Phase 3: Learner View verification on the Catalog Storefront
The moment you hit publish, the platform server compiles the data rows and renders the item live.
- Open your public discovery platform homepage in a fresh incognito browser tab and navigate to the **Courses** or **Catalog** page directory grid.
- Your newly added course run card will display natively alongside its featured thumbnail graphic, instructor profile badges, and category tags.
- Clicking into the course summary card opens the full landing layout page, displaying your customized course details alongside the dynamic **Register** or **Purchase Course** checkout buttons to capture student enrollments.
### Troubleshooting and Administrative Notes
#### Why isn't my course showing up in the WordPress search dropdown?
If the import tool cannot locate your course, return to Open edX Studio and confirm that **Course Start Date** and **Enrollment Start Date** are set under **Settings \> Schedule & Details**. Course runs with missing or past-due dates will not appear in the catalog.
#### How do I unpublish a course run from the storefront?
If a semester run concludes and you need to hide the enrollment card without destroying historical grading matrices, navigate to **WordPress \> Courses \> All Courses**. Hover over your target course title row and click **Quick Edit**. Change the *Status* dropdown field from *Published* to **Draft** and click Update. This pulls the card down from public visibility while keeping student roster files perfectly intact inside the LMS.
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