A WordPress theme for universities, colleges and schools in a "library and campus" style, with 12 home pages for 12 kinds of school: university, liberal arts college, online courses, secondary school, language school, conservatoire, business school, art & design school, primary school, summer school, research institute and coding bootcamp. Every home page opens with a different hero: an arched window that grows to full screen, a full-screen film, a turning carousel of course cards, a photo slider, photos in orbit, piano-key panels, a shuffling mosaic, prints you can drag, a photo in a moving shape, swipe slides, contour lines and a typing terminal. Courses look like library catalogue cards with a call number, the menu is a card index, events get a rolling date stamp and student quotes sit on return slips.

Besides the home pages you get 5 one-page sites and the pages a school needs: course catalogue, faculties, timetable, admissions with fees, scholarships and an application form, Open Days, campus map, library, accommodation, staff, alumni, events, research and news. Every section is an Elementor widget you can edit, move and reuse.

Works with the free Elementor; no Elementor Pro needed. Scroll motion in plain JavaScript with Lenis smooth scrolling, and a right-to-left layout.

Built for Elementor

• 133 Elementor widgets: 117 section widgets (one for every section of the Aulora design), 9 Aulora widgets (courses, staff, events, news, student voices, page header, section heading, button, newsletter) and 7 header and footer widgets, each with Content and Style tabs
• Block library in the Elementor editor: 126 ready blocks in 14 categories, with previews and search
• Header and footer from Elementor templates, no Elementor Pro needed
• College colours become Elementor global colours and global fonts
• The Elementor editor loads the widget settings one by one, so it also works with a 128 MB PHP memory limit
• 16 block patterns and block styles (index card, arched window, ribbon button, ruled table) for the block editor

One-click demo import

• Works offline: 42 pages, menus, widgets and settings in one click
• 16 courses, 10 staff profiles, 5 events, 9 student voices and 6 news stories, with 6 faculties, 2 study levels and 5 event types
• Runs in short steps, so it finishes on hosting with a 30-second and 128 MB PHP limit
• Import a single page instead of the whole demo
• Optional download of the online demo photos
• The "Change site settings" option lists exactly what it changes
• Remove the demo again and restore your settings from before the import

What's included

• 12 home pages, each with a different hero: University, Liberal Arts College, Online Courses, Secondary School, Language School, Conservatoire, Business School, Art & Design School, Primary School, Summer School, Research Institute, Coding Bootcamp
• 5 one-page sites: Open Day, Single course, Summer school, Conference, Private tutor
• Study: Course catalogue, Course page, Faculties, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Timetable, Short courses
• Admissions: How to apply, Fees & funding, Scholarships, Open Days, International students, Application form
• Campus & people: Campus map, Library, Accommodation, Academic staff, Staff profile, Alumni, Gallery
• News & more: News, News story, Events, Event page, Research, About, Contact, FAQ, Privacy policy, Accessibility, 404
• Aulora theme, child theme and the Aulora Core plugin
• HTML documentation, an HTML confirmation e-mail, Polish and German translations

Features

• Card index menu: the "Index" button opens a drawer of catalogue cards (home pages, one-page sites, study, admissions, campus and more), built from Appearance > Menus
• Library and campus design: arched window hero, faculty signposts, catalogue cards with call numbers, a rolling date stamp for events, timetable tabs, a bookshelf and return-slip quotes
• 6 college colour presets (Bottle green, Claret, Harbour, Sage, Damson, Ochre) plus your own colours, Day and Night mode, motion on or reduced, with a live preview in the Customizer
• Post types with their own fields: courses (faculty, level, call number, award, length, study mode, start, entry requirements, fee), staff (role, office, office hours), events (event type, date, time, place, admission) and student voices
• Request forms: Open Day booking, application, prospectus request, contact and newsletter forms e-mail the request to you and keep a copy under Form entries
• Courses, staff, events, news and student voices widgets with faculty, level and type filters
• Header layouts (main menu and card index, one-page, none), header and footer from Elementor templates and a footer with a reader's ticket newsletter
• Page options on every page: header, page header, college colours, Day or Night mode, footer, noindex, the same in the block editor and in Elementor
• News with the latest story large at the top, reading time, share links and "Read next" stories
• Form entries with CSV export, reCAPTCHA v3, Mailchimp and an optional confirmation e-mail in the Aulora style
• Card details, passwords and documents are never asked for, e-mailed or stored
• Cookie consent with Necessary, Analytics and Marketing choices and Google Consent Mode v2; GA4, Tag Manager and Meta Pixel load after consent
• Structured data for the school, courses, people, events and articles; meta descriptions; coming soon and maintenance mode; export and import of the theme settings
• Shortcodes and sidebar widgets: latest news, contact details, newsletter
• Full RTL support, translation ready, wpml-config.xml for WPML and Polylang
• Automatic updates in WordPress with a free licence key (1 site + staging)
• Self-hosted Newsreader, Overpass and Courier Prime fonts, no requests to Google Fonts
• Clean, escaped PHP; content lives in the plugin, so it stays when you switch themes

Requirements

• WordPress 6.5 or newer (tested with 7.1.4), PHP 7.4 or newer (tested with PHP 8)
• 128 MB PHP memory is enough for the demo import and the Elementor editor; 256 MB recommended
• Elementor (free, tested with 4.3.5); optional Contact Form 7, WPML or Polylang
• Works in current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Opera, on desktop and mobile

Good to know

• Demo photos are not included. The online demo uses AI-generated photos. The download uses placeholder artwork, ready to be replaced in the Media Library; the demo import can optionally download the online demo photos.
• This is a website theme, not a student information system. The application, Open Day and prospectus forms send a request by e-mail; they do not enrol students, take payments or accept documents.
• Timetables, fees, course facts, rankings and figures are sample data for you to replace.
• Privacy and accessibility pages hold example text; write your own with your adviser.
• All schools, people, courses, quotes and figures in the sample content are fictional.

Credits

• Lenis 1.3.27 (MIT)
• Newsreader, Overpass, Courier Prime (SIL Open Font License 1.1)
• TGM Plugin Activation (GPL)
• Preview only: AI-generated photos (not in the download)

Changelog

Version 1.0.0 (2026-11-02)

Demo content

• One-click demo import that works offline: 42 pages, including 12 home pages (each with a different hero) and 5 one-page sites
• 16 courses, 10 staff profiles, 5 events, 9 student voices and 6 news stories, with 6 faculties, 2 study levels and 5 event types
• Demo menus: the header menu, the card index, three footer menus and the legal menu
• Single-page import
• Optional download of the demo photos from the NetMakers demo server (off by default; placeholders otherwise)
• "Change site settings" option with a clear list of what changes
• Demo removal that can restore your settings from before the import
• Images and pages are imported in short steps, so the import also finishes on hosting with a 30-second and 128 MB PHP limit

Page building

• 133 Elementor widgets: 117 section widgets (every section of the Aulora HTML template), 9 Aulora widgets and 7 header and footer widgets
• Header and footer from Elementor templates, no Elementor Pro needed
• Block library in the Elementor editor with previews and search
• 16 block patterns and block styles (index card, arched window, ribbon button, ruled table) for the block editor
• College colours become Elementor global colours and fonts
• The Elementor editor loads the widget settings one by one, so it also works with a 128 MB PHP memory limit

Education content

• Courses (faculty, level, call number, award, length, study mode, start, entry requirements, fee), staff (role, office, office hours), events (event type, date, time, place, admission) and student voices, each with its own fields and pages
• Open Day booking, application, prospectus request, contact and newsletter forms, sent by e-mail (no online payment, enrolment or student accounts)
• Courses, staff, events, news and student voices widgets with faculty, level and type filters

Design

• "Library and campus" design: arched window hero, faculty signposts, catalogue cards, rolling date stamp, timetable tabs, bookshelf and return-slip quotes
• Card index menu (the "Index" drawer) built from Appearance > Menus, with appearance settings and contact details
• 6 college colour presets (Bottle green, Claret, Harbour, Sage, Damson, Ochre) plus your own colours, Day and Night mode, motion on or reduced
• "Use these colours on all pages" option, so one preset can recolour the whole site, demo pages included
• Header layouts: main menu and card index, one-page and none
• Page options for every page, the same in the block editor and in Elementor's page settings
• News with the latest story at the top, reading time, share links and "Read next" stories
• Self-hosted Newsreader, Overpass and Courier Prime fonts

Forms and privacy

• Forms that work with page caching
• Form entries with CSV export, reCAPTCHA v3, Mailchimp, confirmation e-mail in the Aulora style
• Cookie consent bar with Necessary, Analytics and Marketing choices and Google Consent Mode v2

Tools

• Structured data (school, courses, people, events, articles, breadcrumbs) and meta descriptions, off when an SEO plugin is active
• Google Analytics 4, Tag Manager and Meta Pixel only after cookie consent, custom code fields
• Coming soon and maintenance mode, export and import of the Customizer settings
• Child theme, Polish and German translations, WPML and Polylang support, right-to-left layout
• Licence tab and automatic updates: activate your free licence key (from update.netmakers.pl) for one-click and automatic updates of the theme and Aulora Core