28 LMS WordPress Themes Compared - 2023

We kick off our WordPress Learning management systems themes list with the WPLMS  theme. This is an education theme that was built on BuddyPress (which is a plugin that can be used on WordPress to turn it into a social network platform). This theme is cool because it is the only WordPress LMS system that also has a mobile app.

WPLMS  is a complete eLearning suite that can be used for various kinds of education websites such as: coaching centers, educational training centers, course tutors, University, corporate training, etc. With this theme you will also be able to create and sell your courses online. The WPLMS WordPress theme is also incredibly flexible so you shouldn’t have a problem customizing it so you can make a site to meet your needs. This theme comes bundled with several premium plugins: Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, Layer Slider, and Event calendar.

More Features of WPLMS Include:

• More than 700 design layouts
• Works with several popular plugins
• Shortcode generator with live preview
• CSS3 animations
• Translation ready
• Has been used by more than 20,000 websites

One of top-and-growing WordPress themes these days is Astra. Astra is very well known for being a compatible theme with the Elementor Page Builder. It is a light-weight theme that will load quickly and to help you get started there are lots of demos that you can start building your website with. All you need to do is load an appropriate design and then customize.

However, there are many things you can do with Astra besides building sites with Elementor. One of those things is building an LMS. Here is a tutorial to show you how to do that.

Astra Highlights:

• Perfectly optimized for all devices and search engines so you can be found through organic search.
• Enhanced speed for improved user experiences and higher conversions.
• Lots of demo sites to help you get started and that are easy to customize, for even those who have no coding knowledge.
• Learn from a community of developers who can help you get the most from your Astra theme.

The Skilled them has a very friendly look to it so people who aren’t such big fans of school will be less likely to run away from your course. This theme’s design is not just friendly, but also responsive so your students can use it on any device, even their phones. With Skilled you will get the LayerSlider plugin as well as the WP Bakery page builder plugin, bundled with Ultimate Addons, so you can build and create your own unique education WordPress site.

The Events plugin is also included so you can schedule non-course related events and use the Timetable plugin to organize course timetables. And you get the Contact Form 7 plugin as well so you can easily stay connected with your site’s subscribers.

Other Features of the Skilled Theme Are:

• Call to action banner
• Blog
• Works with Sensei courses plugin
• Comes with the WooCommerce plugin
• 6 ready color skins
• Teacher profiles
• Google fonts
• 5+ demos to help you build your site

The Clever Course theme can be used to create sites for a variety of different learning institutions such as: schools, college, general education, university, etc. This theme was created with the purpose of being used as a platform for creating and selling courses. Since people will be buying your courses, they will need a way to pay you.

You will be able to choose if you want to use: PayPal, Stripe, PayMill, Authorized.net or Cloudpayments.eu, or your users can transfer the money like through a bank transfer if you are ok with that. the Cleaver Course WordPress theme is WPML ready, so your site will be able to be translated into other languages which can help widen your user audience. There is a page builder as well to help you customize and design all of the details of your WordPress site.

More Features of Clever Course Are:

• Fully responsive design
• WooCommerce friendly
• Shortcode generator
• Font uploader
• Theme customizer
• Mega menu

We move on to the Guru theme. This WordPress LMS theme is jam packed with tons of features and works with many popular plugins like: BuddyPress, Sensei, MailChimp, Event Calendar, WPML and WooCommerce. With Guru you will have the ability to do many things on your website such as: write lessons, create online courses, video hosting, tack course progress and more.

This theme’s design is both responsive and retina ready so your site will be able to be formatted correctly on all different screen sizes. The Visual page builder plugin also comes with the Guru theme as well, so building, customizing and maintaining your site will be easier than you ever imagined. It is search engine optimized ready as well so your site will show up higher in relevant online search result rankings.

Other Features of Guru Are:

• Course analytics
• Quiz grading
• WP integration
• Multilingual
• Tons of Shortcodes
• Question bank
• Can conduct tests with ease

And number five of our WordPress Learning Management System themes is a theme with a very literal name, LMS. This theme had an update and now it is on its fifth version and is better than ever. The LMS WordPress theme will allow you to build an educational system that uses things such as: WordPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, WPML, Event calendar, MailChimp, and others.

Your users and students can easily pay for your courses thanks to the WooCommerce and s2member plugins. The LMS theme has support for RTL (right to left languages) so between the support for RTL and the support for WPML, you will be able to translate your site into almost any language you can think of. The Slider Revolution and Layer slider plugins are also included in this theme.

Other Features of the LMS Theme Are:

• Tons of shortodes
• search engine optimized ready
• Cross browser compatible
• Mega menu with widgets
• Use course templates to get your site started
• There are numerous LMS demos to help you get started

The Academia theme, as you might be able to tell from its name, is an educational theme. It can be used for various types of websites in the education field such as: university, academy, online courses, and education centers. This theme comes with the Revolution Slider plugin in addition to the Visual Composer page builder plugin.

The Visual Composer plugin will help you to easily build, customize and maintain your own LMS site. And thanks to the drag and drop page builder feature, all you have to do is move items around the page and drop them wherever you want. This theme has  a responsive design and it is retina ready as well so no matter what device your user is using to access your site, all of your content and images will always look great.

Other Features of LMS Include:

• Video background sections
• One click install demo data
• Customizable mega menu
• Google fonts included
• Can offer free and premium courses

Next up we have the WordPress Invent theme. This theme is actually best used for higher levels of education such as college and university but it can still be a good theme choice for other levels of education as well.

Even though this is an education focused theme, it is very flexible so it can be used for design agencies, small business sites and corporation websites too. Invent comes with the SiteOrigin page builder to help you build your one of a kind site. It is very intuitive and has drag and drop abilities as well. There are also LearnDash components incorporated into the theme. Invent is translation ready and has WPML support for all of your translation needs.

More Features of Invent Include:

• Responsive layout
• Single page or multi page capabilities
• More than 8 custom post types
• Portfolio and gallery support
• Over 500 Google fonts
• Portfolio with AJAX features
• Includes 16 premium widgets
• Can populate website with demo content

With the Skillyfully theme you will be able to build your own online marketplace to sell courses and lessons. You will also be able to hire an entire team of experts  to create an Academy of tutors if you want. You can set up classes that are either: free, paid, subscription (by using an extension), or you can do a combination of these.

The Skillyfully WordPress theme has a fully responsive design and it is retina/hi-def display ready so your images will always look amazing and your site will have no trouble formatting itself to fit different screen sizes. With the Skillfully theme there is Google’s material design elements which will provide you with the tools you need to help make your eLearning marketplace a reality.

Other Features of the Skillyfully WordPress Theme Are:

• Flyout menu with social media icons
• Events calendar pro ready
• Translation file and rtl.css included
• Styled for Gravity Forms
• Classes can free, per class, subscription or a mixture of all three

We move on without LMS WordPress Themes list with the Education WP theme. This theme was based on the WordPress plugin directory’s #1 Learning Management System, LearnPress. Education WP recently released version 3.6 and it now comes with more features like: LearnPress 3.0, Ivy League Demos and the Visual Composer page builder plugin to help make customizing your site a breeze.

To help you build your website there are more than 20 demos. You can use the drag and drop page builder, included with the theme to customize the demos.

There are also several different payment options that come with this theme for your users to use: PayPal, Authorize.net, 2 Checkout, Stripe and offline payment, so you can sell your course online.  Just like some of our other themes, Education WP is Right to Left language ready as well as multi lingual ready so people who speak other languages can use and understand your site.

More Features of Education WP are:

• bbPress support and BuddyPress support
• Slider revolution
• Isotope commercial license
• LearnPress premium add ons
• Events management
• An instructor profile and student profile
• Mobile friendly

We have reached the tenth of our WordPress learning Management System themes with Academy. The Academy theme was designed with the intent of making selling and sharing online classes easier for both educators and students. This WordPress theme has a responsive design so your website will be able to format itself to fit on any size screen no matter how big or small.

Learners can create accounts on your site and load avatars and create profiles. This is without them ever being inside the side’s backend.

A nice perk of Academy is that it comes with a contact form builder. This means that you will have way a way of contacting and connecting with your users already built in to this theme. There is also a place to have user testimonials so people can comment about how much they love your course. This will help bring more validity to your website and could entice more people to use your LMS site.

Other Features of the Academy Theme Are:

• Extended user profiles
• Google analytics integration
• Share buttons support
• Shortcodes editor
• Theme options panel
• WooCommerce integration

The Course Builder WordPress theme is actually considered a multi purpose eLearning WordPress LMS theme. It is great for teachers, schools, education centers, universities, instructors, etc. to build their own learning related website. Course Builder comes with it sown pack of premium addons that give you a lot of extend abilities such as:Content drip, Co-instructor, Commission and Random quiz.

There is also a drag and drop course builder so creating your courses from scratch on your site should be a snap. Just drag your items around the page and drop them where you want them to go, it is that simple. There are five different payment gateways you can use to have people pay for your courses: PayPal, Authorize.net, Stripe, 2 checkout, and offline payment. The Course Builder theme’s design is responsive as well.

Other Features of Course Builder Include:

• Numerous demos you can use
• One click demo install
• Visual composer
• Advanced SEO support
• Event management
• Can use subscription/membership payment options

The Education Center WordPress theme was initially made to be geared towards education for younger grades such as: pre-school, primary school, and secondary school but it can also be used for higher levels like high school and college students and informal learning. This theme also works with the LearnDash plugin so you can share quizzes, grades, tests and assignments with your students and their parents.

You will also be able to do various things such as: use the course builder, create forums, and give out awards, certificates, and badges. The Education Center theme also works with several plugins including: WP Bakery page builder plugin, BuddyPress, Events Calendar, bbPress, WooCommerce, and the Revolution Slider. This theme is search engine ready as well which will help bring more traffic to your site by showing up higher in online search result rankings.

Other Feature of the Education Center WordPress Include:

• One click demo install
• Google web fonts
• Parallax background and video background
• ThemeRex widget set
• Fontella icon set and image icons
• Shortcodes
• Complies with GDPR regulations

eLearning WP had a relatively huge update and it is now in version 3.0 and it is better than ever. You will be able to create amazing online course and have a choice of several different payment gateways for people to use to pay you for your lesson like: PayaPal, Authorize.net, 2checkout, and Stripe. There is WooCommerce integration a well with the eLearning WP  theme so there can be even more ways for students to buy your courses.

To help you start building your learning website, you can choose between three different dedicated demos. These can be customized to your own specific needs.

This theme has the SiteOrigin page builder as well to help the process of building, customizing and editing your site easier than you could ever imagine. This theme can also work with MailChimp which is great so you will have a way of staying in touch and connecting with your site’s subscribers through email. It is 100% mobile friendly as well so your students can learn through your site on the go.

Other Features of eLearning WP Include:

• Support for both bbPress and BuddyPress
• Search Engine Optimized
• Google fonts support
• One click demo data importer
• Translation ready and RTL support

Number fifteen of our LMS WordPress themes is the Lincoln WordPress. This theme was built to be used by education and learning centers but it also can work for any educational organization such as: colleges, universities, training center, online courses, schools, etc. And since this theme is so flexible it can be used for a few more things like a digital agency or business site.

The Lincoln theme can work with the popular LearnDash plugin so instructors will be able to do things like upload: grades, reading materials, a syllabus, quizzes and more. This theme comes with the Visual Composer page builder plugin as well so building your site will be a snap. It has a responsive design as well so your site will always look great from desktop to mobile.

Other Features of Lincoln Are:

• 30+ PSD files included free with the theme
• More than 8 dedicated demos for the theme
• Event management
• More than 670 Google fonts
• 5 custom post types
• Speed optimized
• 519 font awesome icons
• Built in widgets
• A teacher selector so you can manage speakers for lectures or courses etc.

The Masterstudy WordPress theme is a jam packed feature loaded theme. It can be used to make websites for: eLearning businesses, college, university, training center, courses hub and more.  The Masterstudy theme has a responsive design so your students can learn on their laptops, desktops, tablets and phones.

The Visual Composer page builder plugin comes with this theme so you will have no trouble, building, customizing and maintaining your website to meet your exact needs and specifications. There is also the WooCommerce plugin and PayPal so you can set pricing and discounts and have users pay securely through PayPal. This theme has WPML localization support to help with any of your translating needs.

More Features of MasterStudy Include:

• FontAwesome icons
• More than 800 Google fonts
• 2 header options
• Parallax background and video background
• Course rating
• Theme options with Redux Framework
• Zoom video conferencing integration

The Education Press WordPress theme is a great choice of theme for basically any sort of learning establishment such as: universities, academies, education centers, colleges, etc. It was designed to be the “one stop solution to offer the best LMS experience and be the best WordPress education theme on the planet”. This theme is based on the CoursePress Pro Plugin and it will allow you to easily create a one f a kind education website.

There are seven homepage variations, that give you plenty of options when designing your LMS website.

The Education Press theme has the SiteOrigin page builder plugin with it to help you quickly create your site’s pages to your exact specifications. This theme’s design is completely responsive so your pages will look great from desktop to mobile and everything in between. The Education Press theme uses both Contact Form 7 and MailChimp to give your the opportunity to stay connected with your site’s subscribers through email.

Other Features of Education Press Are:

• Tons of shortcodes
• SEO friendly
• Flexslider
• Blog posts

And we have arrived at number twenty of our WordPress learning management system themes with the appropriately named University theme. It can be used for several different websites such as: education institute, event, course, business, shopping or Learning Management System. The University theme can work with many different plugins like: Slider Revolution, WPML, LearnDash, WooCommerce, and Contact Form 7 to help you keep the subscribers of your site up to date.

It also has the Visual Composer page builder to help make the process of creating your WordPress site as painless as possible.  A cool feature of the University WordPress theme is that there is Facebook and Disqus comment integration, so if you are into social media, this is a nice feature to have. The University theme’s design is responsive and retina ready as well so both your text and images will look great on all devices.

Other Features of University Are:

• Seven demo sites you can install, customize and use
• Course management and event management
• Infinite colors
• Responsive Google Adsense
• Parallax and CSS animation effects
• Social accounts and social sharing
• Sell courses and tickets online

The WP Education WordPress theme can be used b anyone that is looking to create their own unique education related WordPress site. It is completely responsive so no matter what kind of device your use is using or how big of a screen it has, your site will always look great. The WP Education theme is powered by the Learnpress plugin which will provide you with tons of great and useful features to make an outstanding education website.

This theme has the Visual Composer page builder plugin to make building, customizing and maintaining your website much easier than you could ever imagine. There is also support for both the Contact Form 7 and WooCommerce plugins which can provide your site with lots of extra helpful tools. The WP Education theme is also RTL and translation ready.

Other Features of Rising Are:

• Powerful theme options
• One click demo data install
• Several shortcodes
• Cross browser compatible
• Compatible with the latest version of WordPress
• Can have student and teacher accounts

Next up of our WordPress Learning Management System themes is the Smart learning theme. This theme is geared towards creating education and e-learning sites, but even though that is what it is intended to be used for, it can be used to create other websites as well. Its layout is responsive so your site will look great fro large desktop screens to tiny mobile ones.

This theme has the Visual Composer page builder plugin as well to help make your customizing and creating process incredibly easy. The Smart Leaning theme can also with with the WPML multilingual plugin should you want or need your site to be translated into other languages. There is cross browser compatibility as well so your users can access your education site on various web browsers such as: Safari, Opera, Chrome, iE10, and FireFox.

More Features of Smart Learning Are:

• Elaborated clean code
• Premade widgets
• 4 different home page variations
• Slider Revolution plugin included

And last but not least we have come to the last of our LMS WordPress themes with the Statfort theme. This is an education specific WordPress theme to be used for: universities, schools, colleges and educational sites. It is fully responsive so you users can access your site no matter what kind of device they have or how big or small its screen is. This theme is WooCommerce ready so you will be able to handle any eCommerce needs you may have.

The theme has 10 premade color schemes you can use. However, you can customize this and have your own color scheme if you so want to.

Statfort is also very user friendly and incredibly customizable. You will be able to manage various items such as: events, courses, sidebars, sliders, and a gallery. There is a page builder as well to help make the customizing process a little bit easier.

Other Features of Statfort Include:

• Widget settings
• PayPal integration
• Unlimited color options
• Advances page builder
• WPML
• Advanced admin panel

The EduLMS WordPress theme is a completely responsive theme that will be able to help you get your site up and running quickly so you cans start selling your online courses. This theme is also fully ready to take on all of your translating needs. It comes not just transnational ready, but it can also work with the WPML plugin and there is support for RTL (right to left) languages as well.

Your site will be cross browser compatible, meaning it will have no problem being viewed on most popular web browsers like Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge. There is search engine optimization compatibility as well to help your site be more noticeable in relevant online search results, which will help bring in traffic to your site.

Other Features of EduLMS Are:

• Built in custom widgets
• Endless color choices
• Unlimited sidebars
• Chimps mega menu

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The Arsim WordPress theme was designed to build informative and effective websites for: schools, universities and colleges. It has a drag and drop page builder for simple and easy website customizing and creating. The Arsim theme is search engine optimized as well so your site will show up higher in online search result rankings helping you to become more noticed and drive more traffic to your site.

There is bbPress integration which is great because you can create online discussion forums for your sites users. It is responsive and retina ready a well so your users can access your website on any device so they can learn on the go. This theme is also WooCommerce ready for any of your eCommerce needs and it is translation ready should you need to translate your site.

More Features of Arsim Include:

• Custom styling
• Google font support
• Optimized for speed
• W3 total cache

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EduPro, you may have been able to guess, is an education WordPress theme that can be used to create websites for several kinds of different learning institutions such as: universities, schools, online courses, college, etc. It is LMS plugin compatible so if you decide to use this plugin you will have LearnDash in addition to other features like: multi-tier courses, membership support, advanced course builder, and more.

It also has the Visual Composer page builder plugin along with its handy dandy drag and drop feature so you can easily customize and create your site to your exact specifications. The EduPro theme is compatible With WooCommerce, bbPress and BuddyPress as well. There is search engine optimization to help your site show up higher in relevant online search result rankings.

More Features of EduPro Are:

• More than 800 Google fonts
• Completely reposnive on all devices
• Mega menu
• Revolution slider
• Custom theme color
• Blog pages

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The Varsita WordPress theme is actually another multi purpose theme that is geared towards: high schools, courses, universities, online learning system, and education business. This theme comes with both the Revolution Slider plugin as well as the Visual Composer plugin so customizing your site exactly the way you want will be a relatively pain free experience.

The Varsita theme comes with the Themeum-LMS plugin as well which will give you even more e-learning features and be a very useful addition to your WordPress LMS site. WooCommerce is also included so you know this theme was built with  e-Commerce in mind so it is perfect for selling school swag like sweatshirts and books. There is MailChimp integration so you will have a way of staying easily connected with your site’s subscribers and keep them up to date on any activity.

Other Features of Varsita Are:

• PayPal payment gateway
• Support for BuddyPress
• Events management
• 5 different homepage variations
• Built-in media player

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