Academy Pro is a genesis marketing WordPress theme for membership websites by StudioPress. This is a best solution to start membership or subscription based website. Education institutes can also use this theme to promote courses or training. The best homepage layout will keep your website fully focused on contents only. If you had been looking to promote training, courses, or premium tutorials then it is for you.
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What’s Cool About Academy Pro Theme ?
We have reviewed many genesis WordPress themes and this one has emerged as best marketing tool for membership portals. If you check out the demo before reading this article then you will come up with a conclusion that it has a highly content optimized frontpage. The homepage layout keeps your readers stick to website by showing different products, benefits, call to action and featured sections.
Academy Pro genesis child theme let’s you customize homepage independently, so you will not be following demo homepage sample compulsorily. Novice users can surely follow the same demo preview if they don’t have idea on how to create professional membership or tutorial sharing site. There are total 6 widget areas which are optimized to work with genesis custom widgets and all other regular widgets too.
You can use widgets to implement featured pages, course list, plans pricing table, videos, images, contacts, testimonials, slider and more. We found homepage top part with hero section that shows an introduction in nice way. You can think of adding personal detail, product benefits or new product launch message in hero area. This section is given with custom options so you will easily add title, description, video link and thumbnail.
Genesis templates are highly preferred because of their custom settings and SEO friendly design. The light weight theme takes less time in loading and speed up browsing speed. It will impress visitors and search engines both with great temperance and better navigation system.
Top Features : Membership / Subscription Theme
Top Promotion Bar : This section is included above the header area and it is widely visible across the entire site. So, you can probably activate it to promote any small text message or link about offers. Many course sellers use it for new product launch, special price, or to announce admission deadline. It supports plain and HTML text both, so you can add links with text easily.
Header Layout : This section will be navigation panel so user can see top level page links on one place. The header left space is there to promote your membership site as brand in competitive market. You can upload image or text logo with slogan line to impress visitors. The menu bar location is set on right side within header. So any links that you add for primary menu will be visible there.
Responsive : Academy Pro offers best homepage and header layout, but we are still missing compatibility part. The theme will take care of your visitors coming from mobiles, iPad, Tablet or any desktop devices. The ability to resize on smallest screen size makes it truly responsive and best solution to improve number of visitors.
The loading speed and content presentation style is maintained in small devices, same like big desktop screens. So, user never have to scroll here and there to view long pages, wide images or access menu links.
Genesis Academy Pro Benefits and Conclusion :
Theme Customizer : StudioPress WordPress themes always gives easy access to back-end options. You just have to load customizer screen to view all theme options in single column. This is where you will see header logo uploader, navigation menu options, layouts options, homepage customization options and more. The visual preview box and ready to use theme options will easily carry all the important changes in design, colors and page layout styles.
Blog/Shop Page : These are two extra templates to share your news and online store items. The blog page has standard layout that would promote news, and latest course or tutorial updates. Shop page is integrated with WooCommerce styling support so authors and trainers can sell books or courses from website. You can use extra templates to create landing page, contact page, course page etc.
Final Words : The pages will get layouts to set sidebar on left or right side. Administrator will see layouts box below page editor to either set full-width style or sidebar layout with any alignment. We love the way it shows homepage with authority, email opt-ins, and products benefits with featured style.
We suggest checking demo and product page to select best membership WordPress theme for your next website.
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