Thinkific
Thinkific is a platform for creating, hosting, and selling online courses. It allows businesses, educators, and creators to build structured learning content and offer it to customers through digital course products.
Key features include:
- Online course creation and content hosting
- Structured lessons including video, text, and downloadable resources
- Course sales pages and checkout functionality
- Student enrolment and learning management
- Embeddable course sales widgets
Thinkific integrates with ShopWired by providing embeddable product widget code so you can promote and sell courses directly from your ShopWired website.
Account creation
Account creation
Create an account on the Thinkific website at Thinkific.
After creating your account you can create a course using the course builder and publish it as a product within your Thinkific account.
Once the course is created, Thinkific can generate a product widget that displays the course information and purchase button for embedding on external websites.
Adding a Thinkific course widget to website pages
Adding a Thinkific course widget to website pages
Thinkific provides an embeddable product widget which displays a course card with course details and a purchase button.
The embed code will be similar to the example shown below.
<div class="thinkific-product-card"
data-btn-txt="Your text goes here"
data-btn-txt-color="#ffffff"
data-btn-bg-color="#1b9eea"
data-card-type="card"
data-link-type="checkout"
data-product="123456"
data-embed-version="0.0.2"
data-card-txt-color="#7d7d7d"
data-card-bg-color="#ffffff"
data-store-url="https://your-thinkific-site.thinkific.com/embeds/products/show">
<div class="iframe-container"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://assets.thinkific.com/js/embeds/product-cards-client.min.js"></script>
The code shown above is provided as an example only. You must copy the exact code provided in your own Thinkific account, as the code and any ID values will be unique to your course.
- Navigate to Website > Themes
- Select
customise your theme - Select
add a new section - Select the
custom HTMLsection type - Paste the embed code into the Custom HTML setting
- Position the section where you want the course widget to appear on the page
The widget will display the course product card, allowing customers to view the course information and proceed to purchase the course through Thinkific.
Recommendations
Recommendations
- Place course widgets on relevant product or promotional pages
- Use separate widgets when promoting multiple courses
- Test the widget placement on a draft theme before publishing to your live theme
- Keep a record of the pages where course widgets are installed
