Emeritus - Education and Online Courses Theme

Enhance your academic endeavors with Emeritus, a contemporary theme for all education and online courses websites with an integrated learning management system. We included elements and features for every university, college, academy, and everyone else looking for an easy yet professional way to create an online learning platform! Top this off with beautifully designed templates for events, Elearning, presenting teachers, full Elementor Page Builder, bbPress & The Events Calendar support, and you got yourself a true LMS marvel. Get Emeritus today!

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Theme Features

• Easy-to-Use Powerful Admin Interface
• One-click import of demo site
• 9 predesigned homepages
• Practical inner pages
• Elementor Page Builder plugin compatible
• bbPress plugin compatible
• The Events Calendar plugin compatible
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin included ($85 value)
• Compatible with the WooCommerce plugin for eCommerce
• Large collection of custom shortcodes
• Course List shortcode
• Course Category List shortcode
• Course Search shortcode
• Event List shortcode
• Instructor List shortcode
• Masonry Gallery List shortcode
• Blog List shortcode
• Customizable blog layouts
• Custom Post Formats: Audio, Video, Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote
• Social Share functionality
• Text Marquee shortcode
• Swapping Image Gallery shortcode
• Product List shortcode
• Product Category List shortcode
• Workflow shortcode
• Highlight shortcode
• Image Gallery shortcode
• Instagram List shortcode
• Icon List Item shortcode
• Team List shortcode
• Testimonials List shortcode
• 5 Header types
• Standard Header
• Minimal Header
• Divided Header
• Centered Header
• Tabbed Header
• Multiple Header behaviors
• Side Area
• Integrated Search
• Optional separate logo for Mobile Header
• Separate styles for Mobile Header
• Optional separate logo for light and dark header versions
• Optional separate logo for Sticky header type
• Header Top and Header Bottom Widget Areas
• Parallax images in sections
• Customizable Mega Menu
• Variable grid size
• Back to Top button functionality
• Content Entry Animations
• Course Info widget
• Course Categories widget
• Course List widget
• Sticky Sidebar widget
• Blog List widget
• Contact Info widget
• Simple Social Links widget
• Social Share widget
• WooCommerce DropDown Cart widget
• WooCommerce Side Area Cart widget
• Social Icons widget
• WooCommerce Dropdown Cart widget
• Footer Top and Footer Bottom
• Customizable Footer Top with 1-4 Columns layouts
• Customizable Footer Bottom with 1-4 Columns layouts
• Child Theme included
• Custom Widget Areas
• Responsive Design
• Retina Ready
• Ion Icons font pack
• Font Elegant font pack
• Dripicons font pack
• Font Awesome font pack
• Linea Icons font pack
• Linear Icons font pack
• Material Icons font pack
• Simple Line Icons font pack
• Translation Ready
• WPML compatible
• Contact Form 7 compatible
• Highly customizable typography settings
• Separate typography settings for responsive
• 900+ Google Fonts

Change Log

Version 1.4.2 – Avgust 18th, 2025

- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.36
- Updated Emeritus Core to 1.3.2
- Fixed creating custom roles
- Minor fixes

Version 1.4.1 – July 29th, 2025

- Updated Emeritus Core to 1.3.1
- Fixed section shades visibility

Version 1.4 – June 26th, 2025

- Added readme.txt
- Added WPML config file
- Updated Qode Framework to 1.2.6
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.34
- Updated Emeritus Core to 1.3
- Updated Emeritus Membership to 1.1
- Updated FontAwesome icons pack to 6.6
- Updated Search template helper functions
- Improved theme's security
- Improved Google Map API compatibility
- Improved PHP 8.3 compatibility
- Improved WooCommerce empty cart styles
- Improved pagination helper functions
- Improved Elementor compatibility
- Improved back to top scrolling
- Fixed Facebook social login functionality
- Fixed Google social login functionality
- Fixed translation loading
- Minor fixes

Version 1.3 – May 30th, 2023

- Added WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.7.0 compatibility
- Updated Qode Framework plugin to 1.2.2
- Updated Emeritus Core plugin to 1.2
- Updated Emeritus Membership plugin to 1.0.2
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.6.13
- Updated Swiper JS to 8.4.5
- Improved Google social login functionality (new API service)
- Improved Elementor compatibility
- Improved Google Maps API with callback function
- Improved theme security
- Improved Instagram Feed compatibility

Version 1.2 – December 2nd, 2022

- Added WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.1.0 compatibility
- Added PHP8 compatibility
- Added Enable/Disable Google Fonts option and functionality
- Updated Qode Framework plugin to 1.2
- Updated Emeritus Core plugin to 1.1
- Updated Emeritus Membership plugin to 1.0.1
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.6.7
- Fixed error on Course Single page when no Instructor user exists
- Fixed course checkout payment
- Fixed course calculate price
- Fixed deprecated _register_controls function issue
- Fixed custom class excluding for shortcodes
- Fixed cart widgets in WordPress 5.8
- Fixed event single page warnings
- Improved import for PHP8
- Improved social share
- Improved theme registration functionality
- Improved theme registration - code already used case
- Improved theme registration to block Shortcodes and CPT loading if the theme is not registered
- Theme Validation Rest Endpoint

Version 1.1 – May 10th, 2021

- Added compatibility with Qi Addons for Elementor plugin
- Added WordPress 5.7.1 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 5.2.2 compatibility
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.4.11