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Education WordPress themes: 3 Best one-page themes for education sites

October 6, 2015

Since WordPress is free and popular, more and more education organizations are using this content management system to build their own websites. In addition to a lot of multiple-page education WordPress websites, you may see some attractive one-page sites which stand out from the rest. It is not difficult to have such an attractive site: you only need to purchase a one-page WordPress theme which is suitable for education purpose, install and activate it on your WordPress website.

Today, we will review three of the best one-page education WordPress themes on ThemeForest marketplace. Read the post and find out the theme matching your educational content.

Top three one-page education WordPress themes on ThemeForest

Agile

Agile is a multi-purpose theme with stunning design, clean typography and many useful features. The theme is not only built for product showcases, personal portfolios or business sites, but also suitable for college, school websites and many other kinds of WordPress sites.

Being one of the most flexible WordPress education blog themes, Agile offers not only a multi-page design, but also a one-page page template which you can customize easily by using the theme’s page sections.

Also, the theme comes with Visual Composer page builder, more than 60 short-codes and a premium short-code builder, seven custom post types, boxed/wide layout, AJAX loading portfolio, multiple gallery templates, more than 1500 retina icons, Google fonts, unlimited sidebars and many more features.

Fable

Fable is one of the best responsive education WordPress themes built for kindergarten, elementary school, child care center, preschool or nursery. It is also suitable for any children or education related projects, such as toy story, babysitting site, summer camp website, craft or art school.

The theme comes with five homepage layouts including a fully functional scrolling one-page layout. Some prominent features of Fable include: the integration of Slide Revolution and Timetable plugins, theme demo data installer, built-in drag & drop page builder, built-in short-code generator, more than 35 content elements, Theme Options panel, Theme Styles panel, and WooCommerce integration.

Ruby

Ruby can be considered to be one of the clean and creative e-learning WordPress themes with one-page responsive design. It is loaded with multi-header layout, more than 30 short-codes and many plugins such as Visual Composer, Visual Header, Slider Revolution, Advanced Custom Fields, WooCommerce and Contact Form 7. Also, the theme is compatible with WPML and offers a drag-and-drop header plugin.

Besides, Ruby includes more than 12 theme demos which can be used for corporate or creative sites, online courses, online shops, portfolios, landing pages, and personal websites.

Wrapping it up

The three one-page education WordPress themes above are all responsive and have a clean, creative design. You can use one of them to create a simple but unique school website, or build an online school allowing you to sell courses and promote e-learning.

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5 reasons why each education WordPress theme should include a page builder

October 2, 2015

Nowadays, a beautiful designed education WordPress theme may no longer make the cut. Site owners are expecting more from the theme they install. A theme must not only help them create additional pages or customize existing pages fast and easily, but also allow them to modify page elements without touching the theme’s codes. That is the reason why page builders gradually become popular and important among WordPress theme authors. Obviously, more and more authors include page builders with their themes, especially WordPress education blog themes.

Advantages of using an education WordPress theme integrated with a page builder

The followings are some key advantages of using a page builder instead of creating your own custom pages manually.

Low Learning Curve: No knowledge of coding & programming required

There are two things you can do if you are a site owner and you don’t want to touch codes. Firstly, you can design an online education WordPress theme and then get a web developer or a conversion service to get the coding done. Secondly, you can remove the need for codes altogether by using a pre-made theme integrated with a page builder.

The second option is less complicated with a low learning curve and anyone can manage it.

Easy to Use: Just drag & drop page elements

Most of page builders use drag and drop functionality because it is a time saver. It allows site owners to create layouts in minutes with proper design elements close at hand. In some cases, a page builder package includes those design elements.

If you make mistake while building a page using drag and drop functionality, it can be corrected immediately and you can cycle through many options quickly and easily until you have the design you expect.

Cost Effective: Plan a web design on a budget

You can cut down the fees to convert design to code as well as the time to produce a beautiful working layout for your clients by using the right tool. Page builders- great productivity tools are not only reliable and effective but also easy to keep the project budget under control.

Good WordPress education blog themes should include a specific page builder so that site owners can get more options and more control at the same time.

Time Saving: Create unique websites quickly

An online education WordPress theme with a page builder allows you to build websites in a shorter timespan with predefined layouts and design elements. The added templates not only allow you to get a project off to a quick start but also help maintain momentum through your customization process.

Flexible & Feature Rich

A versatile and flexible page builder can help you design even unique or complex websites. Most of all, a good page builder included in the education WordPress theme will give you many stand-out features that modern sites require.

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Material Design WordPress Themes for videos

September 30, 2015

Material Design is a visual design language developed by Google. It is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion and interaction design across platforms and device sizes. With the release of Android Lollipop, Material Design has become a trend in design. WordPress theme designers are also experimenting with this new language. They have created polished, beautiful and professional themes which can turn WordPress sites into innovative and unique ones.

The following collection includes some WordPress themes for videos which use Material Design philosophy. Just take a look at those themes and experience.

Material Design WordPress Themes for videos

Zephyr

Zephyr is a premium WordPress theme suitable for video sites, portfolios, blogs, product websites, or any other type of project. The theme is fully responsive and based on the Material Design trend with nice appearance and features. It focuses on typography, usability & user-experience. The theme features authentic motions, responsive interactions, parallax effects, hierarchical timings, eight appearance animations for columns and images, and more.

Some of the theme’s key features include: 1000+ Font Awesome and Material Design icons, visual drag and drop page builder, WooCommerce ready, advanced typography options, easy-to-use theme options panel, advanced header options, portfolio with 6000+ combinations, parallax backgrounds, translation ready, three blog layouts, and many other elements (Contact Form, Counter, Icon Box, Image Gallery, Image Slider, Google Map, Message Box, Team Member, Testimonial, Video Player).

Impala

Impala is one of WordPress themes for videos and photos which try to apply Material Design principals. It has a fully responsive, modern and flat design. You are able to not only use the theme to build video website but almost any type of site, from online magazine, portfolio, online shop to blog and coming soon page.

Its key features include: drag and drop page builder, multiple headers, versatile layouts (1170px, 1024px, 900px, full-width, full-screen), background video options, transparent patterns, , more than 1200 icons from font Awesome and Google Material Design Icons, review system, video post format, and many more.

Pinty

Pinty is a premium WordPress theme which allows you to build a website like Pinterest. It helps you to create boards, pin items (images, video and places with Google maps) from other websites or upload your own content, re-pin, create user profiles, follow users, like and so on.

The theme is designed with the Material Design style. It is fully responsive and retina ready. Pinty comes with Redux framework, locate pins with Google Maps, Font Awesome icons, unlimited color schemes, translation ready and Google fonts. Especially, it allows users to register and login to your website using their Google+ or Facebook account.

Tactile

Tactile, which is one of the best WordPress themes for YouTube videos, also claims to be a material theme. It comes with a modern and feature-rich design, masonry blog layout, multiple header layouts, a powerful admin interface, Visual Composer plugin, parallax images, AJAX transitions, video background, video slider, WooCommerce integration, Contact Form 7 integration, WPML multilingual integration, Google fonts, and so on.

Color

Color is a responsive and colorful WordPress theme for video blog and portfolio. It allows user to use an individual accent color for each post, page or post type, which helps to create a unique look and feel for the video site.

The theme comes with many features, such as advanced font options, Google maps integration, Easy Digital Downloads compatibility, show/hide author information, social sharing options, short-codes, portfolio post type with featured image, team post type, and video slider support.

Flow Box

Flow Box is one of the clean and minimalist WordPress themes for videos and photos with a box-design layout. It is ideal for a video site, blog, portfolio or anything else. The theme features a responsive design, WooCommerce integration, translation support, a child theme and more.

Featured, WordPress Themes

Reviewing some university sites using educational WordPress theme

September 29, 2015

WordPress has become a convenient tool for education organizations to create and manage their own website. In addition to taking advantage of free WordPress education blog themes, these organizations also choose to use premium ones or hire a designer to develop their own educational WordPress theme. And you may be interested in taking a deep look at their websites in order to draw inspiration for designing your site.

In this article, we review six WordPress sites of universities and colleges all over the world. Hope this will help you get more ideas.

Some university sites using educational WordPress theme

Nicholls State University This university is located in Thibodaux, Louisiana. It provides educational opportunities and services to the people in the center of Cajun country and beyond.

Nicholls State University is powered by WordPress Multisite with a custom WordPress education course theme using Suzy, SASS, and a variety of open source software in order to create a responsive education site. The Nicholls website takes advantage of WordPress’ ease of use to meet their needs.

Eastman School of Music

Eastman has been known for the high standards of scholarship, performance, creativity, and teaching. Its illustrious list of alums serves as a testament to a legacy that began around 80 years ago.

The school uses WordPress as a content management system and its site network is largely powered by WordPress Multisite with a custom educational WordPress theme and plugins.

Solo Practice University

Solo Practice University is a premium membership site powered by WordPress/BuddyPress. It focuses on building a professional and educational community for lawyers as well as law students.

With a focus on education for lawyers, this website takes advantages of the blogging features of WordPress Multisite and the social features of BuddyPress plugin. There are more than 40 virtual classrooms in the network. Each of those classes is a WordPress blog with a custom educational WordPress theme enhanced with multimedia plugins. Also, each classroom has a study group (powered by BuddyPress) where faculty and students can communicate with one another in many different ways. If students take part in the study group of any course, they will receive an automatic email notification every time a new lecture is posted for the course.

FIU College of Engineering and Computing

FIU College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) is the premier university in engineering and information science, ideally located in Miami.

This is a public research university with vibrant and student centered learning environment.

Georgia State University

Georgia State is an enterprising urban public research university. Powered by WordPress Multisite, it is a network of over 150 sites. This allows visitors to discover all information about Georgia State, from its nine colleges and institutes, more than 100 fields of study to its libraries and global engagement.

UCF College of Medicine

UCF College of Medicine is a medical school located in the United States. Its program epitomizes innovation, high-tech learning tools and a pioneering spirit to educate young doctors and scientists in a new and better way.

The UCF College of Medicine’s utilizes WordPress to develop a website emphasizing its high-tech learning environment. It uses a custom educational WordPress theme and customized backend to create a site which is easy to edit and maintain.

Featured, WordPress Themes

Video Theme WordPress 2015: Premium or Free?

September 28, 2015

For the past few years, video blogging has emerged as a new favorite trend in blogs and websites. And of course, such a strong web service like WordPress has so far developed various themes, both free and premium ones, as a response to this need. And ever since, there is also an ongoing controversy regarding the choice of one type over another. With this article, we will try to identify whether a free or premium item will make the best video theme WordPress 2015.

Premium WordPress video themes 2015

TrueMag – one of the most voted WordPress video themes 2015

It is generally believed that the premium themes are always good, as its name is self-evident. However, let’s discover both sides of the premium so that we can have a better overall perspective of it.

PROS

CONS

– Support. Overall speaking, premium video themes are always accompanied by exclusive support from the development team.

– Frequent updates.

– Unique features. Particularly for video blogging, users all need to be equipped with supporting features to enhance their visitors’ experience.

– Customization. Unlike the simply designed free video themes, premium ones offer users a high level of personalization to meet users’ needs and requirements.

– Security. Security is usually not the top priority in terms of free themes. However, when themes come with a price, this issue is always covered by the developers to ease their users’ worries.

– Budget. It is premium; thus, it comes with a price. This should be a great consideration for any users’ budget for their video blog/magazine. Surely enough, these themes will not fit free vloggers who have no specific commercial target in blogging.

– No official review. Premium WordPress video themes are developed by individuals or specific teams. Thus, users should bear in mind that there is no official WordPress repository.

– Discontinue. Users should also be informed that they will lose their money in case the author decides to discontinue their product. This is such a huge risk for any investment in a charged video theme.

deTube used to be among the top video themes on WordPress, but now it’s gone.

Free WordPress video themes 2015

A free-of-charge theme can be a reduced version of a premium theme, or a portfolio-related product of some new authors. Although they are all free, the features, in many cases, can be really impressive. Let’s check out the merits and demerits of these free versions.

PROS

CONS

– FREE! Of course the most prominent advantage is its free-of-charge nature. Especially for those who just try video blog for fun, these free themes are also a genuine present.

– By-products. Thanks to its prevalence, the plugins and configuration settings of these free themes are relatively well-developed. Particularly in such a special type as video website, these by-products are priceless in enhancing users’ experience.

– Official review. Only the free video themes provided on WordPress Admin are reviewed officially before publication. Thus, a free WordPress video theme must first meet a certain standards to be considered as an accredited free one.

– No warranty. Except free themes accessed through WordPress Admin, other ones from unknown sources are highly risky. It is not only the problem of limited support, but also the possibility of leaked information or mal-codes which can have severe impacts on the website.

– Infrequent updates.

– Less support.

– Lack of uniqueness. As a return for their free-of-charge, video themes WordPress 2015 which are free-of-charge are rather simple or even boring in design. Accordingly, the visual experience of free themes is considerably less significant. Besides, users also have little options in the customization or personalization.

A free video WordPress theme can be not very eye-catching like this.

Closing comments

Either the free or the premium video themes do have both pros and cons. The choice is dependent on users’ particular preferences for their video website/blog. For a professional video magazine, a premium video theme WordPress 2015 will be better-off. In case of an amateur vlogger, just try a free WordPress video theme before making any serious investment. And most importantly, users must carefully reflect on the pros and cons of each type to decide which advantages they want to leverage, and which disadvantages they can trade-off.

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Best WordPress themes for video with front-end video submission

September 25, 2015

The following best WordPress themes for video come with front-end submission to allow users to share their images, videos, links, stories and other content.

The themes can be used to share websites such as video sharing, food recipes, info graphics, GIFs, quotes and other things, etc.

Best WordPress themes for video with front-end video submission

SocialChef

SocialChef is a premium WordPress theme for sharing recipes online. This theme is designed for readers to share and swap recipes. It is supported for all devices like Smartphones, tablets, iPad to give readers and followers optimal experience.

It features front-end recipe submission that allows users to submit their recipes, so other users can add content in your site. It allows users to add the preparation time, cooking time, skills, category, ingredients and nutrition facts of the recipes. Moreover, you can add steps of cooking so readers can easily follow each of steps. It also comes with advanced search feature that helps you easily search the results.

The theme is available with 12 color schemes, including a built-in callout bar, styled widgets and splendid social integration. SocialChef enables you to set up a forum for you and your friends to share different recipes together.

Basil Recipes

Basil Recipes is one of the best WordPress themes for video site. It is easy to use with devices like smartphones, tablets, iPads, etc. to provide users fantastic experience.

It comes with free Cooked plugin that allows you to create your own recipe website. It also includes a drag-and-drop recipe builder, unique recipe slider, body page builder, front-end submissions, favorite recipes list, pending recipe manager, user profile, custom login/registration form, nutrition fact, video support, and WooCommerce integration.

Neat

Neat is a minimalist and lightweight viral WordPress theme for video blog. The theme uses Bourbon neat framework that gets your website up and running in minutes. It is coded with clean SaaS for functionality and outstanding usability. This theme is fully responsive and mobile-friendly. Besides, the theme is retina ready to make your content look astounding and attractive on high resolution displays.

Neat comes with an array of color options, more than 600 Google fonts, more than 400 FontWwesome icons, cool post type templates, multiple parallax sections, custom widgets and powerful short-codes. Its highly developed admin panel powered by Redux Framework helps the theme personalize. It is integrated with Visual Composer drag and drop page builder to help you create the page layout. It also comes with Revolution Slider, a premium WordPress plugin that allows you to add unlimited slides with stunning animation via user-friendly interface. Neat is compatible with almost popular WordPress SEO plugins as well as JetPack plugin.

Aruna

Aruna is considered as one of best WordPress theme for video site today. This theme is suitable for unique content sharing websites. It is HTML5 & CSS3 based, fully responsive and retina ready. It just takes 10 seconds to post an article using the theme’s post module, so you can easily build slider posts and more. Aruna is a completely different theme with loads of useful features for content sharing and socializing.

This is a highly customizable WordPress theme with several homepage layouts, unlimited color options and awesome typography and much more.

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LearnDash – A Plugin Compatible with Best Education WordPress Themes

September 22, 2015

WordPress users who own educational sites are all familiar with LearnDash, a plugin that best education WordPress themes usually support. Now, with LearnDash, you can create learning management system for your own as it provide perfect and complete solution for online courses. At the end of this article, we also mention about another powerful plugin for your preference.

LEARNDASH – LMS plugin compatible with best education WordPress themes

This plugin lets you use any medium to create and deliver your courses. The platform is sale integrated. It includes forums that can be private or public, and also specific course. You can set preconditions and multilevel classes. It has lesson timers, advanced quizzes, group management, multisite, and tons more. It is sensitive and works with any theme in general and any best WordPress themes for online education in particular

It is a demonstration site where you can see what lessons might look like. The structure of the lesson is smooth and easy to navigate. You can see the contents of the course, take the game, and see your achievements. You can define simple or complex hierarchical structure for the courses, and it will label them as complete before allowing students to continue in the course.

This is a premium plugin. The basic package is $99 and includes an unlimited license with 1-year support. The complete package is $129 and adds the pro panel.

GOOD LMS – Learning Management System WordPress Plugin

This is a learning management system and complete course delivery. It has a great appearance and many helpful options to create courses and quiz. The plugin also allows site owners to put a rating system in each course so students can evaluate this one.

The courses show a progress bar so that students know their current position in the course. The course itself may be a mixture of text and video. As the students go through the pages, progress will change to follow.

At the end of the course, the students can take a timed quiz, which can be a combination of multiple choice and written. There is a system of certificates and badges so you can choose the type of recipient students receive at the end of the course. You can see this feature in the plugin demo.

There are several different payment methods, including PayPal, Stripe, Paymill, Authorized.net, bank transfer, etc. You can even have on-site courses and just use the system as a secure means of payment and monitoring. The plugin also have commission rate for instructors.

The plugin costs $30 for use on a single site.

In short, whatever type of school site you choose to build, whether it is an information site or a full online school, WordPress has the best education WordPress themes and tools to make them work and look great. You can add courses to your site, create comprehensive school structure navigation, or create a site with information about the school.

Your turn! Have you created a school website with WordPress? Have you used the plugins compatible with best education WordPress themes that this article mentions here? Or have we missed your favorite? We would like to hear about it in the comments below!

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Key features of popular WordPress video themes on ThemeForest

September 21, 2015

ThemeForest is considered one of the major online marketplaces for website templates, where you can find the best WordPress video themes, responsive templates and more. The question is: what makes those themes popular?

This article will summarize some common features of popular WordPress responsive video themes on ThemeForest. Let’s have a look at them and you will understand the reason why those ones become the best-selling video WordPress themes.

Key features of the best WordPress responsive video themes on ThemeForest

Modern and beautiful design

Design is the first thing attracting viewers’ eyes. Also, the best WordPress themes on ThemeForest, including responsive video themes, have an impressive design that get the attention of customers at first sight. They are beautiful from font, color to layouts and images.

Each video theme will give a distinct look and feel to your site, helping your school or training center stand out of the rest.

Clean code

A significant part of WordPress users have the demand for customize themes’ code. They sometimes want to add some CSS or modify PHP codes. Therefore, unless a WordPress theme’s code is clean and well-organized, users may feel difficult to customize it. As a result, they will exclude it from their list.

Fortunately, ThemeForest has its own requirements for WordPress core API, features and assets. Therefore, its themes, especially popular ones, usually have well-organized code.

Powerful video features

Being the best WordPress responsive video themes, they certainly support powerful features for different types of video content. Some of the key features include:

Embed videos from popular video sharing sites (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc.)
Self-hosted video support
Video playlist & video channel
Built-in widgets for video
Video sliders
Short-codes for video
Custom video players support
Video auto-play
Video page layouts

Besides, each popular WordPress responsive video theme on ThemeForest has its own unique video features, which differentiates it from other themes, such as video ads support and video submission.

Easy Customization

One of the attractive features of ThemeForest WordPress themes, especially video ones, is that they offer the easy-to-use Theme Options Panel and drag-drop page builder. This allows you to take full control and easily customize various aspects of your theme – even if you are not tech-savvy. For example, you are able to change page layouts, logo, favicon, fonts, colors and much more without coding knowledge.

Sustainable Item Support

Envato always try to improve all aspects of how buyers get post-sale support on ThemeForest. In particular, they provide better tools and feedback for authors, and a simpler, more convenient process for buyers.

Wrapping it up

This writing explains the features that best-selling WordPress responsive video themes on ThemeForest usually offer, including: impressive design, clean code, powerful video features, easy customization and sustainable technical support.

So, here are six eye-catching ThemeForest WordPress video themes (responsive) which you may want to consider for your video content:

Invictus – Full-screen Photography WordPress Theme
Studiofolio – Versatile Video Blog Theme
Soundboard – Responsive WordPress Music Video Theme
True Mag – WordPress Theme for Video and Magazine
Right Now – Full-width WordPress Video Theme
Clubber – Events, Music & Video WordPress Theme

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Top three one-page education WordPress themes on ThemeForest

Agile

Fable

Ruby

Wrapping it up

Advantages of using an education WordPress theme integrated with a page builder

Low Learning Curve: No knowledge of coding & programming required

Easy to Use: Just drag & drop page elements

Cost Effective: Plan a web design on a budget

Time Saving: Create unique websites quickly

Flexible & Feature Rich

Material Design WordPress Themes for videos

Zephyr

Impala

Pinty

Tactile

Color

Flow Box

Some university sites using educational WordPress theme

Premium WordPress video themes 2015

Free WordPress video themes 2015

Closing comments

Best WordPress themes for video with front-end video submission

SocialChef

Basil Recipes

Neat

Aruna

LEARNDASH – LMS plugin compatible with best education WordPress themes

GOOD LMS – Learning Management System WordPress Plugin

Key features of the best WordPress responsive video themes on ThemeForest

Modern and beautiful design

Clean code

Powerful video features

Easy Customization

Sustainable Item Support

Wrapping it up

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