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6 key features of good WordPress video blog themes

August 15, 2015

One of the misconceptions about WordPress platform is that because of being free, it is not good enough for highly sophisticated websites. However, many websites of big brands which you visit every day are using this platform, including video related sites such as BBC America, Star Wars, Sony Music, MTV News and PlayStation.Blog. Also, you can create great video websites like those brands by using WordPress video blog themes to power the content.

While reviewing WordPress video blog themes, you should consider a few key features that a good video blog theme need to have. Let’s take a look and find out how to get the best choice for your website.

1. Responsive and Retina Ready Design

A theme with responsive and retina ready design will ensure your website look beautiful in all devices and screens, from desktops, laptops, notebooks to mobile phones. Besides, when using a responsive theme you don’t have to maintain multiple themes for web and mobile on a site.

2. Multiple Page Layouts and Templates

It would be better if a WordPress video blog theme have various page layouts for video content, blog, e-commerce and more. Each layout should have its own style while maintaining the feel and look of the website as a whole.

3. Built-in Widgets for video

Most WordPress video blog themes are built with widgets for blog; however, many themes don’t feature separate ones for video. If you want to create a video portfolio or video channel then those video widgets are very important. In that case, the theme that you select should be packed with the widgets for popular/featured videos, recent/trending videos, related videos and video category.

4. Self-hosted Video Support

Beside the support for videos from popular sites such as Youtube, Daily Motion and Vimeo, many WordPress video blog themes also support self-hosted videos. If you produce your own videos, this feature will allow you to post, manage them efficiently and create an original website.

5. Easy-to-use Theme Options

The themes which come with easy-to-use Theme Options will help you configure and customize your website without editing the code, which can not only save your time and effort, but also plays an important role in building a beautiful, user-friendly video site.

6. SEO Friendly

To get an advantage over your competitions on search engines, you should pick a Search Engine Optimized video theme for your site. In particular, the theme should include site speed optimization, search engine readability of web content and other SEO-specific features. Especially, if you are going to run a SEO campaign for your video website, then the Google rich snippets feature can make your videos prominent on Google search result pages.

Conclusion

Since WordPress video blog themes are released more and more everyday, you may be confused about how to select the most suitable one for your blog and video content. Simply, define your needs and check out theme reviews and ratings on WordPress Theme Directory and markets like ThemeForest.

However, you remember not to choose a theme just because of its popularity. It is more important that the theme has to match your content and fit your users.

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Tips for Marketing Education Theme WordPress

August 14, 2015

Designing and building an education theme for WordPress might be an easy work but marketing that product can be frustrating. The followings are top tips for promoting your education WordPress theme.

1. Free Channels

The best free channel to promote your product is to access WordPress.org and release a free version of the education theme. WordPress Theme Directory will help you introduce the free theme to those who want to upgrade to receive support or advanced features if you offer the product’s professional version. They might take interest in your product so they will look into other items.

Also, you should keep the free theme updated in order to retain users.

2. Press Releases

By press releases, I mean contacting the relevant blogs and sites. Craft an email and send it over. Here are some useful tips for your email:

Make it personal, and don’t use the wrong person’s name or site name in the subject!

Don’t use marketing language; write an email in plain English explaining about your product.

3. The Dashboard Upsell

If you are introducing a free education WordPress theme, you can have a lot of way to upsell the user to your premium offering. One way is adding information to the setting page to introduce your premium products, or adding some news about your company to a dashboard widget. There are some ways to reach user in dashboard by keeping it tasteful and non-intrusive.

The above is Yoast’s SEO plugin settings screen – he is advertising his products and review service.

4. Develop a Newsletter

Build a newsletter before you launch your new education theme for WordPress. There is no better way of introducing your new product and features than in mail box. You should get a holding page up and start tweeting news and updates to get a pre-launch list. This is a great way to build some initial buzz. Then you can keep building the list by having a signup on your site. When someone buys your product, you send an email asking them to join your list.

5. Sponsored Reviews

A lot of blogs are offering a paid review service for a few hundred dollars. Therefore, if you don’t take interest in free coverage, you can book sponsored reviews to get some coverage for your education WordPress theme.

Another reason why you should choose sponsored reviews is that the post stays there permanently so when you pay for it, you will continue to see leads for the long term as it is picked up by search engines.

6. Be Patient

As you know, building sales and awareness of your company might be a slow process so you should be patient.

Building a blog can be one of the slowest types of websites. It takes many years to see the results and it also takes number of years to build a good product. You can reinvest profits back into advertising and marketing to take short cuts.

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Premium WordPress education themes for higher ed

August 13, 2015

It is no doubt that WordPress is one of the most used CMS worldwide. People use it not only for business websites but also for educational ones. Universities and higher education institutions are leveraging the flexibility of WordPress to power their websites, from main site to student portfolios and faculty sites.

If you are in higher education, this collect will help you choose the most suitable education theme for your website. The collection includes six most popular WordPress education themes for online courses and LMS on ThemeForest market.

1. Clever Course

This flexible WordPress theme is suitable for online courses. Clever Course is fully responsive, easy to use and feature rich. It allows you to create and sell online courses, create onsite courses and online quiz, add many payment methods to the site and so on. With this theme, you can create an impressive and multifunctional website for your institute.

Price: $58

2. University

University is one of the trending higher education WordPress themes on ThemeForest. It fits not only eLearning System and online courses but business, events and shopping. The theme’s key features include: events and tick selling, course enroll and payment, LearnDash and WooCommerce support, Visual Composer page builder, Slider Revolution, translation ready, one-click sample data, auto updates and much more. By using those features, you can easily turn your education website into a professional and multifunctional site.

Price: $58

3. Grand College

Grand College is an elegant WordPress theme for university and higher education sites. It has clean design and many powerful options such as easy-to-use admin panel, drag-drop Page Builder, unlimited sidebars, 6 footer layouts, 4 blog styles and drag-drop slider manager. Also, the theme is translation ready, SEO friendly and frequently updated.

Price: $48

4. Academy

This is a fully responsive WordPress education theme, which is especially designed for learning and teaching online. It provides various features for a learning management system, including tracking course progress, extended user profiles, rating and questions systems, WooCommerce integration, embedding self-hosted media and file attachments, etc. With this theme, you can selling and sharing your knowledge online without barriers.

Price: $58

5. WPLMS

WPLMS is one of the best higher education WordPress themes for online course management. Its features a number of child themes, instructor dashboard, student dashboard and various touch points, etc. The theme includes 8 custom plugins exclusively built for it. Besides, WPLMS supports many popular plugins like BuddyPress, BBPress and WooCommerce.

Price: $63

6. The Keynote

This conference and event WordPress theme is especially suitable for higher education websites which support academic conferences. The Keynote utilizes three types of slider, Page Builder, time counter, Paypal payment for ticket, parallax section and short-code generator, etc.

Price: $48

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Responsive WordPress themes for education

August 11, 2015

To attract students all around the world, nowadays, all of the educational organizations need to pay attention to keep their websites up-to-date with the latest information about their syllabus and facilities. Therefore, a modern and convenient website is important for the organization. With a website powered by WordPress, it is easy and time-saving for the organization to turn it into a learn management system by using education themes.

There are a huge number of responsive WordPress themes for education that can provide you outstanding features, easy-to-use options and flexible layouts. And it is essential for user who wants to take suitable WordPress themes that are shown on the web, even it is a difficult process. Therefore, the list with the most popular education WordPress themes below would be useful for the ones who are considering.

Erudito

Many people use Erudito, which is created by WPZOOM, to perform their educational WordPress blogs or websites. By using WPZOOM Framework in designing the theme with the combination of 12 color schemes, the theme can satisfy the most fastidious users. Besides, it has a number of slides are combined with functional options, which helps the users easily utilize the website.

My College

The second option for responsive education WordPress theme is My College, a WordPress them that performs a huge number of slides with 3 custom colors. It is the favorite theme of many educational institutes and universities around the world.

Universidad

Not only used for educational promotion purpose, Universidad is a favorite choice of many companies and commercial organizations. Being suitable for accessing from both of the mobiles and laptops, the theme has an elegant design with 6 different page templates.

Grand College

Grand College is picked by educational organization thanks to its functional and convenient interface to users. It provides users many functions on the panel, which allows them to easily change or add content. Futhermore, the translate option with up to 25 languages are very useful for every people to arrange or access to the website.

Knowledge Base

Unlike the above education WordPress themes, Knowledge Base is largely used by the web designers for information searching or wiki website. With Twitter Bootstrap Framework, Knowledge Base supports users with 4 colors skin and 3 homepage templates, which are appropriate for the users to access on phones or tablets.

Education Time

Have you ever heard of Education Time – an ideal WordPress theme for web designers from many famous educational organizations? The users can use the theme with 4 custom page templates, an editor of shortcodes and the aided card from WooCommerce. Being suitable for all of the versions of WordPress, Education Time is one of the good items for WordPress sites.

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13 video themes WordPress 2015

August 10, 2015

There are many best WordPress themes available in the market to make a website full of tutorials and others videos. These videos could be from any niche like software installing guides, funny stories, automobile and movie trailers, etc. You can choose any niche with the following video themes WordPress 2015.

1. True Mag

One of the best video WordPress themes available in the market is TrueMag. It is famous for its responsive design, retina ready feature, SEO optimization, various slider options, slider options, and so on. It is compatible with Woo-Commerce and plugins like BuddyPress and bbPress also.

2. Video

Video is a responsive video WordPress theme 2015. The theme is supported for schema markup which displays addition, information in Google like the video feature image which is proven to get higher click through rate. MyThemShop premium mega menu and subscribe plugin has integrated as standard to help grow your list and stand-out. Another great feature is the ability of rating videos and saving for later viewing.

3. NewsTube

The NewsTube is a responsive video WordPress theme 2015. It is an ideal option for the bloggers who have many niches to host on their blog. It has a clean and clear modern interface with perfect Ad optimization that allows you to attract the visitors and earn some money. Responsive design, simple control panel, custom widgets and unlimited options are other great features which allow you to choose the color schemes for your blog.

4. eVid

eVid is one of the best options to show the videos in your posts from different hosts such as YouTube, Veoh, Vimeo and MetaCafe. This free video theme provides two colors, free-time update. It is compatible with all the latest browsers. It also has the simplest and secure coding.

5. Conduit

Conduit WordPress Video theme is integrated a lot of great features you wish for. It consists of responsive design, retina display ready image resolution, Google rich snippets, dynamic sidebars, light and dark shades, translation ready scripts. It is an ideal option for those who want to show all of their blogging work with the help of videos in posts or as even video as a post.

6. VideoZoom

VideoZoom is a handful and useful WordPress Video Theme. It shows and play any video you want on your blog. It is suitable with everyone’s customization need because it’s developed on the Zoo framework of the developers. Additionally, it comes with video slider, light colored skin, auto update, responsive design and easy uploading.

7. Solar

Solar is one of the best premium WordPress themes with great features like responsive layout, powerful theme option panel, video document, premium slider, custom fonts, HTML 5 build up. It also comes with video hosted sliders with integrated slider Plugin. It is an ideal option for bloggers who wants to host a lot of videos on their website demanding no-nonsense glitches and issues.

8. Vidiho

This is a video WordPress Multipurpose theme with a lot of great features that make embedding video really easy. You can share your posts with the world through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, StumbleUpon. It comes with high definition slider, social network sharing buttons, regular content based posts, page reviews, translation ready, handy shortcodes and translation ready.

9. deTube

deTube is a responsive video WordPress theme for video site, video Portal and video blog. This is the best option for a video based blog which has all the latest news and your tech tutorial integrated. There are two forms: a news/magazine type video website or as a single video post layout with full-width content option in use. It comes with common features such as responsive design, video thumbnail, Ajax video player, video sorting, auto play, buddy press compatibility, visitor count.

10. Aware

Aware WordPress Video Theme is interactive, responsive portfolio theme. It is a great choice for freelancers, web designers, photographers and video hosting. It comes with an interactive user interface with responsive design and Ajax homepage portfolio. Besides, it consists of greats features like one-click install or short-codes, customizable theme options and custom widgets.

11. VideoPlus

This is exquisite responsive video blogging theme with enrich and easy customizable features. It comes with SEO ready, translation ready, lifetime free support, latest control panel, browser compatibility, AD placing optimization and much more.

12. Azione

Azione is a neat, structured video blogging theme with a massive view port for your HD video and photographs. It comes with drag and drop homepage builder, Google Analytics tracking, customizable fonts, different layouts for content, widgets ready, design customization without code change, video & image parameter edits and self-hosted videos feature.

13. Wave

Wave WordPress Video Theme is an ideal portfolio or product showcase theme. It allows you to choose exact colors, patterns or background image you wish. It supports video size up to 920px width. It comes with theme customizing options with WP-Admin, custom widgets, thumbnails, HD tag for videos, modern day browser compatibility.

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Some of popular education WordPress themes

August 8, 2015

There is a saying that education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nowadays, people are spending a very huge amount of money for education (about $3 trillion). Almost this amount is paid for online education. The best way to start your online education is creating your education related to website.

The best and most popular CMS platform is WordPress that can make your own education related to website easy. Just start by picking an appropriate education WordPress theme and sketching your content.

The followings are popular education WordPress themes

1. Education Pro

Education Pro by the StudioPress team is used for schools and universities that want to create a professional design for their websites.

Education Pro provides a solution for educational institutions that allows them to show off their facilities with high quality photographs and handle the large amounts of information they need to publish on a regular basis.

Education Pro is one of modern education WordPress themes 2015 for educational organizations that on the Genesis Framework from StudioPress.

2. Capital

Capital is an excellent design which makes sense to almost educational institutions.

Built on the Zoom framework, it is possible to customize this education WordPress theme to an impressive level of depth without technical capability. Moreover, the Dynamic Homepage Builder allows you to combine the widgets that will make up your homepage with simple drag-and-drop movements.

3. School

School is a clean and simple theme. Its icons come with a friendly appeal that is lacking in some of the more formal educational themes elsewhere on this page. This theme offers events, a custom slider, and customization options including Google Fonts.

Additionally, the established look and feel on School’s homepage is consistent across the theme from blog posts to pages. If you are searching for a theme with a simple design, bold colors and attractive icons, this could be a great choice.

4. Blackboard

Blackboard is a responsive education theme with a three-column design. Apart from testimonial page layouts and standard blog, it consists of essential academic page templates like course detail, course directory, staff directory and events. It is easy for you to add photo galleries, testimonials and events to your sites by the theme’s custom-built widgets.

5. University

University is a WordPress education theme designed for education websites. The theme is suitable for Events, Courses, Online Learning System, Business and Shopping. It comes with a lot of great features like responsive design, educational focus, events and ticket selling, revolution slider, one-click sample data, auto update, premium support, and much more.

6. E learning WordPress theme

LMS WordPress theme – e learning WordPress theme is a brilliant adaptation of the WordPress platform into a Learning Management System, or LMS, via crafted, well-developed and well-designed theme. It is connected with the WordPress LMS plugin, LearnPress. With powerful tools, e learning WordPress theme allows for one click installation with several different models or “demos” available.

7. Invent

Invent uses a modular framework in its design, giving it a modern look and user-friendly interface. It is a good choice for colleges or universities but can be used for schools as well. After studying what educational institutions require for their websites, LiveMesh developed Invent.

Customization is what Invent does well. It offers more than 500 Google Fonts, near-unlimited color options, unlimited heading styles, eight custom post types, unlimited sidebars, a large selection of shortcodes.

8. Academia Pro

Academia is a responsive theme with three-column layout. It is built on the WPZOOM framework which helps you create your homepage via the dynamic homepage builder.

With 12 custom WPZOOM widgets, you can build up your content structure any way you want. Its homepage has a lot of redundant navigation and a featured post slider. The theme doesn’t come with specific education page templates but you can have some choices for different page layouts: right sidebars, left sidebars, or both. If you would rather do without the sidebars, you can use a full width template.

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Education Pro: One of the best education WordPress themes

August 7, 2015

Nowadays, it is very popular for a university or school to create an education website on WordPress, using Education Pro. The theme has been successfully created by the team of StudioPress and all of them have the same characteristic: easily to use and get access.

One valuable function that many educational organizations can benefit from Education Pro is that they can upload photos of their services with good standards, manage a huge load of data for assessment, includes old and new bulletins on activities, calendars and studied results on the education WordPress themes. Moreover, the speed of assessment should be fast enough while a large number of people are trying to log in to.

By applying a big homepage slider which is perfect for performing many photographs at a second, the WordPress education blog theme bring to admins six layout options and the selection of page templates that contain a landing page template, in which they can arrange the data in the best order. Even on device such as mobile phone, users also see the similar version of the website as on computer with the layout from the software.

It is a convenient and safe WordPress education blog theme for educational institutes that uses Genesis Framework from StudioPress.

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