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Academy Pro: A WordPress Theme for Online Courses and Membership Sites

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Academy Pro: A WordPress Theme for Online Courses and Membership Sites

Introducing Academy Pro … the theme for online course creators, membership site owners, and educational content marketers.

Academy Pro is the latest premium theme from StudioPress, designed specifically for people in the business of online content and community.

Read on to discover all the features and benefits you get with this theme, and how it will help you grow your business.

The obstacle of hidden value

Academy Pro - hero sectionb

First, I’ll answer a burning question on many minds:

Why do sites featuring online courses, membership programs, and educational content need a dedicated approach?

The answer is, a lot of the value of those types of websites is hidden.

When you have a free or paid registration or opt-in requirement, a site visitor who is not logged in can’t see everything you offer without taking some form of action first.

These types of sites need to explain all of their hidden value, demonstrate authority, and tease their content — without being off-putting, losing trust, or giving all your exclusive ideas away.

Academy Pro - WooCommerce integration

Why Academy Pro theme is the solution for online course creators, membership site owners, and educational content marketers

Yes, it’s quick and easy to customize, as you are increasingly requesting from us … and of course it looks great.

You can rest assured it is well-crafted, search optimized, and secure. You would expect nothing less from StudioPress.

But just looking good, having clean, SEO-friendly code, and being easy to maintain is not sufficient in today’s competitive online world.

Academy Pro - demo

More importantly for your business, you’ll efficiently turn visitors into customers with this design that drives action.

The home page was intentionally crafted with persuasion best-practices in mind, gained from our collective decades of experience on the front lines of digital commerce.

It helps you showcase your authority and the benefits of learning from you.

More tools to help you grow your business

Display your course topics, lessons, and educational goals, in an attractive, intuitive way, with dedicated styles and fold-out FAQ sections.

Plus, you will be positioned to get more email opt-ins, so that you can easily build your prospect list with quality subscribers, faster.

Academy Pro - email sign up

We also heard your requests about video, so it’s a snap to show and tell with embedded video right on the home page.

You can upload your video directly, or use any Vimeo or YouTube link, so keeping your video content up to date will fit within your existing workflow — without any additional modification or maintenance help.

Academy Pro is available today.

Go ahead and check out the full demo site right now.

Get the Academy Pro theme

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  1. It looks amazing, Brian. I’ll try it out in the wild on a side-project in the upcoming weeks. The timing couldn’t be better.

    It feels like you’re really ramping it up over at Studiopress now. Both Academy Pro and the last one, Authority Pro, are really taking your child themes to a new level. It’s been great to see. 🙂

  3. Hey Brian!

    What an amazing and super helpful WordPress Theme for online courses!

    It looks really good. This is the first time I’m learning about this theme. It seems to have all of the necessary features to deliver a great user interface.

    Thanks for sharing this quick review!

    Cheers! 😀

  4. I don’t know when online course business models started to become in-vogue and to be completely honest I thought they had hit their zenith years ago with the use of youtube. Regardless of the why, they are absolutely everywhere these days. I went from helping a client set one of these up once every year (or two) to all of a sudden having four or five requests for one in a month. Thank goodness that WordPress resource developers keep up with trends because the time it would take to code all of these features from scratch just make it a nightmare without pre-built tools.

  5. I am starting to learn and go more in depth into WordPress. I do have a lot of experience in Joomla but since there seems to be more plugins for WordPress I did the change =)
    Funny but I was looking for a modern WordPress online course theme for online course and I am glad I found your post Brian.
    Theme seem nice and clean just what I am looking for. I will test it =)

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