psychology_courses

Psychology Courses Plugin

Custom WordPress plugin for managing psychology courses, teachers, reviews

Status: 🚧 In active development

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Project Goals

The plugin is intended for educational centers that offer recurring psychology courses.

The same course can be launched multiple times during a year, with different teachers and different start dates.

The plugin should eliminate duplicated content and provide a single source of truth for each entity.

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Main Entities

Course

A course contains static information that does not depend on a specific launch.

Examples:

• title
• description
• program
• duration
• prices
• categories
• featured image
• SEO

Examples:

• Basics of Psychology
• CBT
• Child Psychology

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Course Stream

A stream represents a specific launch of a course.

A stream contains dynamic information.

Examples:

• related course
• start date
• end date
• teachers
• status
• available places

Examples:

Course: Basics of Psychology

Streams:

• September 2026
• October 2026
• December 2026

Each stream may have different teachers.

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Teacher

Separate Custom Post Type.

Contains:

• name
• photo
• description
• biography
• position

One teacher can participate in many streams.

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Review

A review belongs to a specific course stream.

This allows displaying:

• reviews on the course page
• reviews for a teacher
• reviews for a specific stream

without duplicating data.

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Relations

Course ↓ Course Stream ↓ Teacher Course Stream ↓ Review

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WordPress Structure

Custom Post Types

• course
• course_stream
• teacher
• review

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Taxonomies

Current:

• course_category

Terms:

• For psychologists
• For beginners

Possible future taxonomies:

• Topics
• Format
• Language
• Level

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Course Page

Displays:

• course information
• nearest stream
• optionally several upcoming streams
• teachers participating in active streams
• reviews

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Design Principles

Single Source of Truth

Every piece of information should exist only once.

Example:

Teachers are attached only to Course Streams.

Course pages determine their teachers automatically.

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Separation of Responsibilities

Each PHP class should have one responsibility.

Example:

Course_Post_Type

only registers CPT.

Course_Metabox

only renders admin fields.

Course_Save

only saves data.

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Extensibility

Architecture should allow future features without major refactoring.

Possible future features:

• online registration
• payment gateways
• student dashboard
• certificates
• webinars
• Zoom links
• downloadable materials
• attendance tracking

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Development Status

Current phase:

• project architecture
• data model
• folder structure

Next phase:

• plugin bootstrap
• CPT registration
• metaboxes
• saving data

Architecture Decisions

This document describes the current architecture.

The data model may evolve during development as new business requirements appear.

Changes are expected and considered part of the design process.