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WordPress Education Theme Collection for Online Courses

October 12, 2015

Knowledge just becomes value when it is shared and passed to other people or the following generation. And to make it easily comes true, online courses is a great creation that makes learning more convenient and reach a lot of people. Learners are willing to pay money for these courses if they want to gain desire knowledge. Yet building an online education system seems not simple. WordPress platform with WordPress education theme and plugin can solve this issue in convenient way and make your online site more professional.

Primary you need to install a WordPress site, and then install, activate a suitable WordPress education theme to manage efficiently your learning system and reach more learners. This checklist of WordPress education themes with great features and stunning design helps you to choose a best WordPress education theme to start building education online sites.

2015 WordPress Education Theme Collection for Online Courses

Invent

Invent is a unique WordPress online education theme designed for websites of any school, college or university. It comes with variety functions, for instance, unlimited colors schemes, custom sidebars, multiple page templates, layout settings, loads of Google fonts, 6+ custom post types and WooCommerce integration. This is a SEO friendly theme ready to help your website reach people around the world. Extensive tests on numbers of actual websites have done with it to make sure no unstable theme element messes up your site.

Academica Pro

Academica Pro is a clean, perfect and responsive WordPress education theme for any online courses. It offers loads of features, like dynamic homepage builder, easy color styling, custom widgets and a featured post slider. With several custom widgets you can adjust the home page or sidebars as your purpose. Responsive design helps your site work well in mobile and tablet devices.

Carry Hill School

If you want to have a beautiful look for your WordPress education site, Carry Hill School is the right choice. It is designed for child school, or children, art, craft and creative online site. Drag-and-Drop Page Builder offered with Carry Hill School allows you to customize the content of your site as you like. This multipurpose WordPress education theme also includes numbers of features, like 600+ Google fonts, responsive & clean design, boxed and wide layouts, and PSD support.

Statfort

Startfort, a modern WordPress education theme 2015, can satisfy your requirements of building any online course website. This responsive theme is designed with several main features, including: courses management, events management, media gallery, slider management, sidebar management, drag and drop page builder, WPML and Translation ready script, and powerful theme options. The theme helps you to easily create different color scheme by its built-in options panel.

Clever Course

This awesome WordPress theme is ideal for who desire to build an informative online course site. With WPML-ready, you can translate this theme into different languages, which helps to raise the number of future customers. You are also able to easily create the desired content for your online learners by using Limitless Page Builder.

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5 supporting tools for designing WordPress education theme

September 3, 2015

When the WordPress appears as a boom to webmaster as it is currently because of its responsiveness and friendliness to the “giant” Google, the demands for designing a WordPress site with the individual remarks are no longer luxury. The number of WordPress users in the world is more and more increasing. More and more companies and individuals are running the WordPress theme design services and thus, you can ask them to design for you a WordPress theme, the WordPress education theme as an example. However, it costs an arm and a leg as it ranges from $300 to $1500 depending on the complex level. Moreover, there are many disadvantages to hire other people to design a WordPress theme for you. Firstly, it does not ensure that your theme will not be used by other users. Secondly, the expense is obviously high. Additionally, it takes you too much time since the design process needs much time to exchange ideas and get the common standards for the theme. This is likely possible that the WordPress theme will not meet your demands completely. Therefore, it would be great if you can design a website by yourself without hiring a design company or professional designer.

The problem is that how a WordPress theme like WordPress education theme can be built by a person who does not have much knowledge about theme?

If you have ever heard about the software or online tools that can help you design a simple website with some manipulations such as dragging, dropping and clicking. So does the WordPress, meaning that it also has such these tools and even does better. Obviously, you need to pay a certain amount of fee. We advise you to accept the fee if you want to use something with high quality.

Let’s look at 5 supporting tools for designing WordPress themes in general and WordPress theme for education portal in particular.

WP Theme Generator

This is the first suggestion as it is the best option for those who do not have much knowledge about designing WordPress theme. It will help you design a WordPress theme by yourself basing on more than 300 different templates. After choosing the template, you will edit its color, font, layouts and so on. Next, save your own theme and download it.

Besides, it provides numerous elements for designing a theme, including more than 1000 pre-designed objects, fully functional shopping cart, more than 50 fonts, 20 Different sliders/slideshows and much more. You can use it with the free account but limited. If you pay $29, you will have the right to use all notable functions of WP Theme Generator. You will find it worthy paying that amount of money.

Ultimatum

This is one of the most feature rich WordPress theme builders. It comes with a drag and drop layout builder which helps the users easily design professional WordPress theme by themselves. Ultimatum also allows users to use free plugins on wordpress.org and many popular premium plugins, create responsive sites, choose unique styles, build Bootstrap Powered WordPress themes, and more.

Elegant Themes Builder

If you used to love the elegant design of the themes released by Elegant Themes, you should use this plugin in order to design a WordPress theme like the WordPress education theme with such the style. Elegant Themes Builder offers powerful tools for structuring page content and a drag-drop canvas where users can re-size and rearrange theme elements, including header, logo, sliders, buttons, pricing table and so on.

Especially, you only need to pay $89 in order to download this plugin and other 87 themes. This supports you to create WordPress themes for any purpose, for example, a WordPress theme for education portal. Therefore, the price is not expensive at all.

iThemes Builder

As one of the premium theme providers, iThemes is no longer a strange name to the WordPress users. It was always among the top of theme providers. However, from WordPress version 3 and higher, iThemes gradually became uninteresting as its structures had nothing remarkable. Therefore, iThemes decided to develop a framework theme called iBuilder to give breakthrough.

Although it is not the most impressive, iBuilder can help the WordPress beginners design a unique WordPress theme for any website, for instance, a WordPress theme for education portal site. In particular, it allows users to edit theme layout by inserting modules such as header, navigation, content area, widgets and footer. Furthermore, iThemes Builder offers blocks which are special functionality add-ons for specific content types.

Headway Framework

Headway Framework becomes one of the well-known theme frameworks thanks to its SEO friendliness. Besides, it allows you to pick your own colors, import/export blocks, edit element parents, select Google fonts, create any layout you want, and much more. Whether who you are, Headway can help you build a unique theme for any purpose in minimal time. For example, if you are an educator and want to have an original WordPress education theme for your site, then you can do it yourself by using this framework.

Hopefully, you will succeed in designing an impressive WordPress theme for yourself. Share with your friends if you find this article useful!

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Beginners’ guide: How to insert media files into a WordPress education theme

August 17, 2015

Media Library

You can easily manage all the images and media files uploaded by accessing to “Media -> Library” in Dashboard.

In this part, you can view the whole files you uploaded and choose the type of displaying (mesh or common type). You can also see the date and month as well as click the connection “Add New” to upload the files without opening the text editor.

Insert photos and media files

In the post or page editor screen, you can easily see the button “Add Media” right above the editor area. Thanks to this, we can insert all kinds of media files from images, sounds to videos and so on into the content of themes, particularly, WordPress education themes. By default, WordPress supports you to upload files directly from your computer to the website and save them on the host. Moreover, you can insert images from any links.

Below is the theme displaying after pressing the button “Add Media”

In this way, it is suggested that you should upload the files right to the host (except from the extremely large files with the size of more than 10 MB) so that you can easily manage and reuse them.

You should try to upload a media file by pressing the button “Select Files” or drag and drop the photo to the space on the window. Additionally, you can upload many files at the same time.

After uploading, the media file ready for inserting will look like below:

By pressing “Insert into the post”, the image or media file is inserted into the content to display in the WordPress online education theme.

After that, you can click on the inserted file and use the available options to customize it.

If you want to add the description for the file, write it in the Caption field while editing or inserting the file.

Edit media files

WordPress themes, especially the WordPress online education theme has a useful set of editing tools for images and media files on the website. You can cut, rotate or adjust the size of the files. All changes will be done directly on the WordPress education theme without other tools. To use this function, you have to go into “Media -> Library -> Choose the image for editing -> Edit image”.

After that, you can open it in the editor and edit as your preference. Next, you will press the button “Save” to complete image edition.

In conclusion, after reading this article, you will know how to insert any media files or images into the content of WordPress. Hopefully, you can use all the functions of WordPress education theme quicker and easier.

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