Education Care

Education Care is free, full responsive, clean, modern looking and professional WordPress theme. This theme is best for kindergarten, school, university, college, academic institutions, training centers, coaches, LMS and other educational websites. It is not bound to educational websites as it is multipurpose theme. It can be used for any general, minimal, multipurpose, business, corporate, portfolio, digital agency, landing page, product showcase and all informative websites. Education care comes with inbuilt features like customizer to change all settings of website, widget section which can be managed by drag and drop, gallery, call to action, feature highlights, stat counter, featured courses and more. Speed optimization, security, dedicated support forum and well documentation are major features of this theme. Education Care aims to provide you best and unique website with minimal technical knowledge.

Theme Installation

From WordPress Dashboard

Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel.
Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
Click Add New.
Upload the Zip file of Education Care
After Installing the theme Click Activate button

FTP Installation (alternate method)

Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder.
Extract education-care.zip and upload the folder.
Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to Appearance > Themes.
Click the Activate link.

Demo Content Installation

Follow the method below to import demo content of the theme

Install One Click Demo Import Plugin. You can get it here
Activate it and go to Appearance >> Import Demo Data
Upload .xml, .wie and .dat files respectively from demo content folder and import them

Download demo content here

After Demo Import

Go to Appeareance >> Menu and assign Main Menu to Primary and Footer menu to Footer locations
Go to Settings >> Reading and select A static page option then assgin home and blog pages as shown in image below.

Adding Content

Page

Follow the method below to create pages on your site

Go to Administration Panels
Go to Page and Click on Add New
Give the title of the page and add the content
Set the featured image for the post from right corner.
Click on Publish Button.
Add more page like the above methods.

Post

Follow the method below to create posts on your site

Go to Administration Panels
Go to Posts and Click on Add New
Give the title of the post and add the content
Set the featured image for the post from right corner.
Set that post on the Category.
Click on Publish Button.
Add more post like the above methods.

Category

Follow the method below to create category on your site

Go to Administration Panels
Go to Posts > Categories
Give the title of the category
Click on Save
The added category will appear on the Add Post Page.

Customization Options

Go to the Admin Panel > Appearance > Customize

Logo, Site Title & Tagline

Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
Find the options for Logo, Site Title and Tagline.
Click on Save and Publish button to save the changes.

Color

Background of the site can be changed from this option.
Go to Appearance > Customize > Colors
Change the color as your need.
Click on Save and Publish to save the changes.

Header Image

This option can be used to change the background image of breadcrumb of inner pages. You can upload multiple images and load them randomly as well.

Background Image

You can change the background image of the site through this option.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Background Image
Upload and assign image as per your need.
Click on Save and Publish to save the changes.

Menus

This theme comes with two menu locations. Primary Menu and Footer Menu

Primary Menu

This menu will appear on Main menu for the site.
Create a menu and add the items on the menu.
Set the menu on the Primary Menu.
Save the Menu

Footer Menu

This menu will appear on bottom right menu of the footer.
Create a menu and add the items on the menu.
Set the menu on the Footer Menu.
Save the Menu

Widgets

Go to Appearance > Customize > Widgets

From Widgets, go to Sidebar
Select the widgets or items to be kept on the side bar like Search, Pages, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Categories, Archives, Text, Calendar, etc.
SAVE AND PUBLISH the sidebar items.

Added Custom Widget

There are 10 custom widget added by this theme. Each of theme are shown and described below.

Add this available widgets on widget area to make the awesome sites. Go to Appearance > Customize > Widget and add the widget on required widget area.

1. EC: Information and Facts

This widget is use to display information page and fact counters.

Select information page from dropdown.
Enter numerical value and text for each counter.

2. EC: Call to Action (CTA)

This widget is useful to add call to action button with description and parallax background.

Give title which will be used as description of CTA.
Provide text for button and its link.
Upload and assign image for parallax background. Please select full width image while you upload background image.

3. EC: Features

This widget can be use to list features or services.

Length of each feature description can be controlled through excerpt length option.
Enable link to detail page option to enable or disable link to detail page of features.
Features can be selected through page dropdown of widget. Featured image of these pages will be used as icon of each feature.

4. EC: Courses

This widget can be use to list highlighted courses or similar options.

Length of each course description can be controlled through excerpt length option.
Enable link to detail page option to enable or disable link to detail page of courses.
Courses can be selected through page dropdown of widget. Featured image of these pages will be used as icon of each course.

5. EC: CTA and Search

This widget is useful to add call to action button with description, parallax background and search form.

Give title which will be used as small colored text of CTA.
Provide Main Text and Content.
Upload and assign image for parallax background. Please select full width image while you upload background image.
Show or hide search form through Show Search Form option.

6. EC: Team

This widget is useful to display team members with their name, position and image.

Post from selected category through widget will be use as team members.
Post title is used as member name and content as position.
Featured image of respective post is used as member image.

7. EC: Gallery

This widget is useful to display gallery images with lightbox.

Select page that has gallery shortcode.
Gallery can be inserted into pages through Add Media button of editor.

8. EC: Testimonial

This widget is useful to display testimonials with sliding effect.

Post from selected category through widget will be use as testimonial item.
Post title is used as name of person giving testimonial.
Featured image of respective post is used as image of testimonial.
Description of image is used position of person giving testimonial. See image below to see how description field of image is being used.

9. EC: Latest News

This widget is useful to display latest news or events.

Post from selected category through widget will be use as news/events item.
If you wish to exclude post from certain categories, you can exclude theme through category id. Ex: 13,14,29 -> Here posts from categories id 13,14 and 29 will be excluded from list.

10. EC: Contact

This widget is useful to display contact informations like address, phone number, map, etc.

Additional Content: This option can be used to display mailchimp form, few line of text below social icons, etc
Contact Page: This option can be used to display page content having google map, opening hours, contact form, etc

Theme Options

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options. Each option available here are described below.

Top Header

From this section you can manage top navigation area of site. It has settings to assign options for left and right area separately, contact informations and notice selection option.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Top Header
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Main Header

This section include different options for logo, site title and tagline. You can show or hide search in header from here.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Main Header
Check all the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Slider Options

This section include options for slider to enable or disable, option to select slides, content length and enable/disable slide link to detail page.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Slider Options
Check all the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Note: Post/page selected for slider need to have featured image to work properly.

Global Page, Posts and Blog

From this section you can manage to show/hide home page content, left or right sidebar for blog posts, exclude posts from categories and control lenght of excerpt in blog page. If you wish to exclude post from certain categories, you can exclude theme through category id. Ex: 13,14,29 -> Here posts from categories id 13,14 and 29 will be excluded from list.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Global Page, Posts and Blog
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Social Links

This section is used to manage social link on the site. You can provide 6 different social links through this option. You need to provide complete url of social site to work properly. For Ex: https://facebook.com/pagename, https://twitter.com/username, etc. Icon will be assigned automatically on the basis of social links.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Social Links
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Footer Options

This section is used to copyright information of site.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Footer Options
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Official Support

Hope, this will help you to setup your site as expected.

If you have any further query, use theme official support forum.