Introducing the Starter theme: A free WordPress theme for MasterStudy LMS plugin

As our old friends and users – the teachers, instructors, and coaches with strong experience – know, MasterStudy LMS plugin allows you to create dedicated and complete courses, lessons, quizzes, and sell them. However, many users asked us to make the ready homepage for online education specifically.  This would be a great time-saving feature. You wouldn’t think about how to design and build the pages from scratch. Instead of it, concentrate your power to make the courses for your students, for your audience. 

So bringing these burdens in mind, let us introduce you to our new FREE Starter Theme for MasterStudy LMS, which is to provide your own personalities, styles, and focus. Every element in the Starter theme matches well with the functions of the Master Study plugin. 

The Starter theme is a part of your favorite MasterStudy LMS plugin. It is a perfect education theme, dedicatedly designed to meet the needs of the fast-evolving learning industry. 

Let’s understand some of the amazing features of our brand new MasterStudy Starter Theme and how you can implement it step-by-step.

Features of our full FREE Starter theme for the MasterStudy LMS plugin:

• One-Click Demo Import;
• Fully compatible with the Elementor page builder;
• Fully mobile responsive;
• Offers PayPal and Stripe as payment methods;
• Offers WooCommerce for advanced payment options;
• Compatible with the Paid Membership Pro plugin;
• Dedicated page module widgets to add unique functionalities

One-click Demo support

Many users have a hard time building their WordPress sites. It’s like solving a puzzle with so many elements to assemble that it becomes impossible for them to do so without guidance. With the Starter theme, we have kept the style and ease of creating your e-learning website as a priority. 

Through one-click import, you can add pages, and required plugins, including sliders, products, widgets,  menus, and much more, so the result is a user-friendly, eye-pleasing website design that you can easily customize according to your needs.

Fully compatible with the Elementor page builder

The MasterStudy LMS plugin is compatible with Elementor, WPBakery, and Divi. They are renowned page builders that come for free in our LMS plugin. They let you create a responsive website with full customization control to make website creation easier, faster, and more enjoyable. 

In our most recent update, we launched the Starter theme with a pre-installed Elementer plugin. 

Elementer is one of the best WordPress website builders that lets you customize every element of your WordPress site without writing a single line of code. It offers over 100+ widgets to help users add specific functions to their websites. 

For online course creators, you can add course ratings, icon lists, image carousels, social icons, progress bars, testimonials, countdowns, sitemaps, and many others to customize the functionality of your online course website. Elemenentor’s easy-to-use drag-and-drop function makes building websites effortless and fast.

Fully mobile responsive

Almost everyone uses a mobile phone, making it extremely crucial for your online courses to be compliant on all devices. The MasterStudy Starter theme is fully responsive, which means it responds (or changes) based on the needs of the users and the device (mobile device in this example) that they’re viewing it on. 

The Starter theme is a part of the MasterStudy LMS plugin and is fully responsive on mobile devices and tablets. It is optimized for Android and iOS systems for a seamless user experience. Both teachers and students can use the app to create and consume content. 

With this, your online course is accessible to students anytime and anywhere. It is one of the most convenient and lucrative options to keep your students hooked for a long time. The theme has been developed to meet the educational needs of schools, universities, and individual instructors. 

To create a modern, stylish educational website, use the MasterStudy plugin and the Starter theme. There is no better duo than this. Use the MasterStudy plugin to add advanced usability features and the Start theme for an exceptional user experience. 

Educators can also collect payments directly through mobile browsers. You can allow payment methods like one-time purchases, monthly or annual subscriptions, and memberships. 

Mobile learning offers flexibility, better completion rates, collaborative learning, and accessibility to information. 

Offers three payment methods (PayPal, Stripe, and WooCommerce (for the rest of the payment options))

The best LMS theme should allow you to monetize your knowledge and grow your business. And the MasterStudy Starter theme does just that. It offers various online payment gateways and money-collection models that you can personalize according to your online course. 

Through the MasterStudy Starter theme, you can create:

• One-time purchase

You can enable a one-time purchase option to enable payment via a single transaction. To make the offer lucrative, you can add discounts or other value-added resources, inducing the learner to make the payment fast.

• Membership plans

A membership plan is a subscription-based model where users pay monthly or yearly to continue using the service. Many famous online course owners follow this method to sell their online courses. You can make your learners active members of your online course by giving out specific benefits or exclusive features.

• Course bundles

An excellent way to increase your revenue is by selling course bundles. If you have built multiple courses in a niche, you can bundle them into one and sell them at reasonable rates. Many students prefer to get course bundles for their discount offers.

• Affiliate Program

You can still earn money by selling courses even if you are not an educator. You can become a partner with popular educational platforms like Udemy and sell their courses through your website. With every sale you make, you will get a commission. 

The MasterStudy LMS plugin offers several payment options, like offline payment. Wire transfer, PayPal, and Stripe. If your learners are from Stripe and PayPal countries, then you use the WooCommerce checkout. It’s easy to install and collect payments worldwide. 

You will have these payment options under the MasterStudy LMS setting.

Offers WooCommerce for advanced payment options

WooCommerce payment is an excellent method to get payment across the world. It is available in over 18 countries and accepts more than 135 currencies. 

You can get payments through: 

• Stripe;
• AfterPay;
• Affirm Payment Gateway;
• Razorpay;
• Square;
• Amazon Pay;
• PayFast;
• Braintree;
• Rupey;
• Mastercard;
• Visa card
• and so on.

With WooCommerce, you can collect payments, handle disputes, and keep an eye on recurring revenue. It’s an open-source platform dedicatedly made for online websites to help them get started with selling online. 

Compatible with the Paid Membership Pro plugin

MasterStudy LMS plugin offers advanced features through Paid Membership Pro. Educators can use this to restrict content, manage user subscriptions, and perform robust customer profile management. The Starter theme is compatible with Paid Membership Pro, giving course creators an easy solution to scale their business. 

Here are some extraordinary features of the Paid Membership Pro:

• Restrict your content or show partial sneak peeks to entice users into reading further. You can also limit access to forums, communities, podcasts, courses, videos, and events for students who are not eligible for it.
• You can enable content dripping for students to access information only after a certain time.
• Educators can create unlimited levels of membership offerings, offer unique pricing, and limit access for each level.
• Customize content and design for every message sent to members, like payment invoices, membership confirmations, and expiration notices.
• Flexible payment methods for every membership level, trial period, and paid subscription. You can also offer discounts, invites, and gift codes for membership promotions.
• Integrate your membership site with top WordPress plugins like WooCommerce, Mailchimp, Zapier, BuddyPress, social sites, and member-only event tools.
• Get access to advanced admin functions like importing and exporting members, assigning manager roles, logging in and password reset, and more.

Dedicated page module widgets to add unique functionalities

The Starter Theme offers unique widgets in the Elementor page builder, allowing educators to add advanced functionalities to their online courses. These are:

• Course search bar: Ability to search for your online course on the website;
• Single course carousel: To showcase a single course in the carousel format on your website;
• Courses carousel: You can show your existing courses in a carousel format that repeats itself so students can easily move through it;
• Course categories: You can add categories to your online courses for better searchability;
• Courses grid: Present your existing courses in a grid form;
• Featured Teacher: Include a description of your teacher as a featured snippet;
• Instructors carousel: For more than one educator, you can create an instructor carousel to introduce them to your students;
• Recent courses: Promote recent courses to your students;
• MS LMS PRO testimonials: Add testimonials of your students for social proof;
• Call to action: Add a call to action to direct students on what to do next;
• Table of content: Add a table of content to your online course for students to quickly scan the content;
• Author box: Include a description of your educator besides the online course;
• Post comment- Allow students and educators to add comments for easier collaboration;
• Menu cart: Add the selected course to your cart for future checkout;
• Site logo: Include your brand logo on the Site;
• Archive title: Limit access to course titles;
• Archive posts: Limit access to archive posts on your website.

You can easily find these widgets in your Elementor dashboard under Site. They are all also tagged as LMS widgets.

How to install and activate the Starter theme in WordPress?

It’s pretty easy to activate the Starter theme in your WordPress dashboard; just follow these steps-

Step 1 Go to your WordPress dashboard and Plugins> Add new. 

Step 2 Search for MasterStudy LMS in the search bar and install the plugin. Once done, click on Activate.

Step 3 Click on the MS LMS at the top right corner of the dashboard.

Step 4 You will now see a notification that says, “MasterStudy Starter theme is now available.” Click on Install to activate.

Step 5 Now activate the Starter theme. Click on “Start” when the pop-up window appears.

Step 6 Click on “Import” to import demo content, widgets, and options. 

Step 7 Install the Starter Child theme to customize your online course website. 

Step 8 Get started with your Starter Child Theme by clicking on “View your website.”

After installing Starter theme and all necessary plugins, you can import the whole page template in Appearance -> MasterStudy Starter Theme. 

And that’s it! Now you can manage the imported content for your read page and adapt it to your goals. 

Conclusion

Powered by the MasterStudy plugin, the Starter theme provides a complete solution for style management with advanced features, tools, and ready-made templates, making it easy for even a non-techie to create an amazing online course website.  You just have to install the MasterStudy plugin to get access to the Starter theme.

It is a ready-free theme that offers Eliminator as its page builder. You can use its drag-and-drop option to add features and get access to over 100+ widgets useful for all online course creators. The MasterStudy plugin also offers additional widgets with various payment options to do the job of creating an online course website, which is the easiest.