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NewsTube – a good responsive video theme for WordPress

August 21, 2015

What is a responsive video theme?

Firstly, responsive is an adjective used for web design to show that a site can display well (easy navigation and reading with a minimum of panning, resizing and scrolling) across all devices, from desktops to mobiles.

A responsive video theme is the one that help your site adapt its layout to any screen size by using flexible images and fluid elements. Therefore, you can feel comfortable to watch videos on your tablet or mobile phone. Honestly, it is a mobile-friendly WordPress theme.

Why is NewsTube an ideal responsive video theme for WordPress?

NewsTube has a clean, modern and elegant design, which helps your website more impressive and attracts viewers at the first glance.

The theme is not only suitable for video-related sites but also a good choice for bogs and online magazines. It supports videos from many websites such as YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Also, NewsTube is designed to enable you to upload self-hosted videos, write blogs, articles or insert podcast into your website.

Besides, this responsive video theme helps the WordPress websites run very quickly and lightly as well as allows users do SEO better and more effectively.

The theme is compatible with all main browsers and a lot of popular plugins such as SEO by Yoast, WPML, Social Locker, YouTube WordPress plugin, WordPress Automatic and Videography.

In addition, you can easily customize NewsTube by using drag and drop Page Builder and extensive Theme Options. It is actually easy for you to follow.

Here are the benefits you can get from using this responsive video theme for WordPress:

Have your site look beautiful and easy reading on different devices
Embded and share a responsive videos from most of popular video sites, including Vimeo, YouTube and Dailymotion
Easily upload and manage your self-hosted videos
Create your own video channels and playlists
Allows members /users to upload and post videos from front-end
Choose among 16 demos to use for your sites
Customize theme layout by using 7 Blog Styles, 5 Article Styles, 3 Video Styles, 9 Sliders and 4 Navigation Styles
Use the color picker to select colors fitting your branding needs
Add rating feature to your post or video (star rating or point rating)
Create beautiful mobile icons on tablets and mobile phones
Import sample data to your website in one click
Choose among 700 free Google fonts or add your own custom fonts
Use different advertising solutions (responsive Google Adsense, pre-defined ads positions, ads shortcode and more)
Update the theme with one click using the Envato Toolkit

In general, you can individualize all aspects on the theme. Try using NewsTube and you will be surprised at how good it is!

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University Theme – WordPress template for education websites

August 20, 2015

As a WordPress theme having a modern design and many outstanding features, University is considered one of the best themes for education and training organizations. In addition, it helps bring unforgettable experience to customers of online shops and businesses.

This WordPress education theme is currently being used by more than 2000 blog owners. The following reasons will explain for the success of University.

1. A university WordPress theme with high compatibility

This online education WordPress theme supports all popular browsers, from Internet Explorer (version 9 to 11), Firefox, Safari and Chrome to Opera. It also possesses a responsive layout, which automatically adapts to all screen sizes of the users’ devices. In other words, using University means that you will never be let down because your visitors are always capable of accessing your content, no matter what browser or device they are using.

2. Different features optimized for different target users

University suits for various users as long as their purposes are related to online learning systems, courses, event, business, and shopping. This theme owns amazing features that can serve all purposes of different users. In particular, University allows you to set up perfect solutions for online courses since it is compatible with the popular WordPress LMS plugin by LearnDash. If you want to do business online, University are integrated with WooCommerce to help you create events, sell tickets of the events, sell courses, receive students’ fee, establish and run stores, and sell products.

3. Helping site owners approach many potential customers

You can provide your content to people all around the world as University is now compatible with WPML plugin – a tool let you create multi-language sites. In addition, this theme is compatible with bbPress which allows you to create forum or social networks on your page to attract visitors.

4. Stimulating users’ creativity

As one of the online university WordPress theme, University encourages the creativity of its users. This theme is currently available with seven slider style demos to check. Additionally, site owners can easily set up their own page builders by using features readily provided. Now there are two tools that support you in personalizing your website, including Page Builder and Revolution Slider, and there is good news that both of them are on sale.

5. User-friendly elements and support team

Using UI and UX, University commits to bring the best experience for your website’s visitors due to its user-friendly elements. In addition, University has the full documentation online to guarantee that you can easily get free support in customization at any time. Besides, the Free Technical Support is available from Monday to Friday for all customers of this online university WordPress theme. All release logs are published online to make sure that you always have enough information about the theme. All sites using this theme are also updated automatically; therefore, you will never have to be worried about the bugs and can enjoy the latest development of the theme.

Also, you can import sample data and have a website like the theme’s demo just with one click. With this leading university theme, WordPress websites can be turned into learning management systems which satisfy you in all aspects, from appearance to functions.

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Selecting the best video theme – WordPress ThemeForest

August 18, 2015

Using WordPress video themes is a convenient way for you to show off your amazing videos, post self-hosted videos and give enjoyable experience to visitors. If you want to select the best video theme, WordPress ThemeForest, which is one of the best selling product categories on ThemeForest marketplace, will help you.

Let’s take a look on the best video themes in this category and choose the most suitable one for you.

VideoMag – Powerful Video WordPress Theme

VideoMag is a powerful video theme which is designed for video blog, video magazine and video portal. VideoMag supports Vine and Twitch. VideoMag will automatically generate thumbnails for the video from popular websites like Youtube, Vimeo and DailyMotion, and save it to your server to promote your page load speed.

First launched in May, 2014, VideoMag has a lot of great features. It supports self-hosting video and embeds as well. VideoMag comes with some extra features such as Visual Composer and useful shortcodes for assembling your layout. It is integrated with a Mega Menu, HTML5 video player that will allow for custom logo overlays.

Today, it is easy to get up and run VideoMag because the developer has provided a Quickstart package.

True Mag – WordPress Theme for Video and Magazine

True Mag is a massive product with ten distinct layouts to choose from out of the box and a lot of custom layouts and colors to play with.

The developer has provided the latest UI practices so the visitors will find the site a pleasure. Besides, True Mag supports both embedded and self-hosting videos.

The theme is retina-ready and 100% responsive with popular plugins Visual Composer and Slider Revolution.

Video Magazine – ThemeForest | Premium WordPress Theme

Video Magazine is a responsive video theme that is suitable for videos, movies and fashion magazines. The theme supports Vimeo, Youtube and Dailymotion videos.

Also, it comes with five different homepage styles, five different footer layouts and five different header styles. You can easily move things around because every content element is in a widget. Besides, Video Magazine supports Contact Form 7 and WPML.

Gigawatt – WordPress Video Theme

Gigawatt is a responsive WordPress theme for videos which comes with eight page templates, eCommerce support and a lovely homepage slider.

It also supports self-hosting videos, using jPlayer plugin. SEO and short URL support are built in. Additionally, a selection of handy color options is included.

SocialPlay – Media Sharing WordPress Theme

Social Play works well when syncing video from third-party sources such as Vimeo, Youtube and Blip.tv.

There are two versions – light and dark, and some color options. A bundle of pages and extensive options panel make it customizable.

Huntington – ThemeForest | Premium WordPress Theme

This is a great WordPress theme for video portfolio. The theme is fully responsive and retina-ready with grid system layout. It includes Visual Composer and is SEO ready; video background is extra benefit in high demand.

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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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NewsTube – a good responsive video theme for WordPress

What is a responsive video theme?

Why is NewsTube an ideal responsive video theme for WordPress?

University Theme – WordPress template for education websites

1. A university WordPress theme with high compatibility

2. Different features optimized for different target users

3. Helping site owners approach many potential customers

4. Stimulating users’ creativity

5. User-friendly elements and support team

Selecting the best video theme – WordPress ThemeForest

6 key features of good WordPress video blog themes

1. Responsive and Retina Ready Design

2. Multiple Page Layouts and Templates

3. Built-in Widgets for video

4. Self-hosted Video Support

5. Easy-to-use Theme Options

6. SEO Friendly

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Tips for Marketing Education Theme WordPress

Premium WordPress education themes for higher ed

Responsive WordPress themes for education

13 video themes WordPress 2015

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