Title: Simple Course Creator &#8211; Updates
Author: kolakube
Published: <strong>May 5, 2014</strong>
Last modified: September 30, 2014

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# Simple Course Creator – Updates

 By [kolakube](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexmangini/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-course-creator-updates.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-course-creator-updates/#installation)
 * [Development](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-course-creator-updates/#developers)

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## Description

The Simple Course Creator Updates addon (SCC Updates) is an extension for the [Simple Course Creator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-course-creator/)
plugin. With it, you can create a timeline of updates from your courses and display
them anywhere on your WordPress site with a shortcode. For example:

 * News sites can easily post updates to stories broken apart into multiples posts
 * Course creators can use it to tease previews of their full course
 * Developers can use it to document the progress of their work on their blog, or
   as a changelog

See SCC Updates in action:

 * None. If your site is using SCC Updates, [send me an email](http://kolakube.com/contact/)
   and I may showcase it here.

Templates and styling are handled out of the box, but SCC Updates is very simple
to customize both with the shortcode and template files/stylesheets.

Follow Simple Course Creator Updates development on [Github](https://github.com/alexmangini/simple-course-creator-updates/)

## Screenshots

[⌊What the timeline looks like with posts added to a course⌉⌊What the timeline looks
like with posts added to a course⌉[

What the timeline looks like with posts added to a course

## Installation

 1. Upload `simple-course-creator-updates` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Use the `[scc_updates]` shortcode to output all courses by default, or `[scc_updates
    course="coursename"]` for single courses

## FAQ

  How can I change the headline and description text of the course?

By default, the title of the course is the same name you give it when you create
the course in Dashboard > Posts > Courses. You can set a custom title by filling
in the Post Listing Title field on the course’s edit screen.

The same process applies to the course description, except you’d fill in the Description
text box on the course edit screen.

  How can I add my own styles?

You can override the default styles the SCC Updates plugin outputs by following 
these simple steps:

NOTE: It is highly encouraged you only make these changes using a child theme. If
you use a parent theme, and then update it, you will lose all customizations you
made with this plugin. Read more about child themes: https://codex.wordpress.org/
Child_Themes

 * Via FTP, open the `simple-course-creator-updates` plugin file and browse to `
   includes/scc_templates` and open the `sccu.css` file
 * Now, copy the entire file and go to your child theme root folder (the same folder`
   style.css` is in)
 * Unless you’ve already created it, create a new folder called `scc_templates`
 * Inside the `scc_templates` folder, create a `sccu.css` file.
 * Paste in the CSS, and you can now freely make changes to the appearance of SCC
   Updates!

  How can I edit the template?

You have complete customization control of not just the way SCC Updates looks, but
also how it functions. Following a nearly identical process as above, editing the
template file can be done by following these simple steps:

NOTE: It is highly encouraged you only make these changes using a child theme. If
you use a parent theme, and then update it, you will lose all customizations you
made with this plugin. Read more about child themes: https://codex.wordpress.org/
Child_Themes

 * Via FTP, open the `simple-course-creator-updates` plugin file and browse to `
   includes/scc_templates` and open the `sccu-output.php` file
 * Now, copy the entire file and go to your child theme root folder (the same folder`
   style.css` is in)
 * Unless you’ve already created it, create a new folder called `scc_templates`
 * Inside the `scc_templates` folder, create a `sccu-output.php` file.
 * Paste in the template code, and you can now freely make changes to the functionality
   of SCC Updates!

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Course Creator – Updates” is open source software. The following people 
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ kolakube ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexmangini/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-course-creator-updates/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-course-creator-updates/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-course-creator-updates/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-course-creator-updates/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * first stable version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-course-creator-updates/)
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   [updates](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/updates/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ kolakube ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexmangini/)

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