Study Circle WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Study Circle WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It enables you to build Websites and powerful on-line applications and requires almost no technical skills or knowledge to manage. Many aspects, including its ease of use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular Web site software available.

Creating a website with WordPress is significantly much easier than coding it by yourself. if you are a beginner, even working with WordPress may be difficult to you. That's why, in this section we will provide some useful links and also will explain how to get oriented in the documentation and what pattern to follow when building your website with our theme. Please note that this documentation covers all the main settings for the theme, but it doesn't cover instructions about working with WordPress, as this is a very extensive topic. If you are new to WordPress, we would recommend to first get familiar with the WordPress system, so you can have at least basic knowledge about how it works and then proceed with setting the theme.



Table of Contents

  1. Theme Installation
  2. Homepage Setup
  3. Header
    1. Site name / logo
    2. Setting the menu
  4. Homepage Slider
  5. Homepage Section
    1. Welcome
    2. Services
    3. Our Courses
    4. Latest News
    5. Our Achievements
    6. Expert Teachers
    7. Student Testimonials
    8. Why Choose Us
    9. Merit Students
    10. Photo Gallery
    11. Mission & Vision
    12. Our Recruiters
  6. Footer
  7. Page Templates & Sidebars
  8. Widgets
  9. Shortcodes
  10. Multilingual
  11. Support

Free Version

  1. Homepage Setup
  2. Slider Setting
  3. Footer

1. Theme Installation

a. Through WordPress Dashboard

  1. Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click on Add New button.
  2. Click on Upload Theme button.
  3. Click on Browse button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.
  4. Look for a file called Study Circle.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
  5. Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
  6. Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.
  7. Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Restore Default.
Note: Some servers have limited folder access settings applied and wouldn't allow uploading the theme trough the admin - in these case you have to upload the theme via FTP.

b. Manual Installation using FTP client

If you know the FTP login details of the server where your site is hosted and you have a FTP client installed (such as FileZilla), you might consider using this way of uploading your theme.

  1. Unzip the Study Circle.zip file
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes
  3. Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/
  4. Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.
First you have to unzip the download file, find the zip file called Study Circle.zip, unzip it and upload the folder to the main WordPress installation folder » wp-content » themes. Please note that if you prefer this way of installation, you have to make sure that the main files of the theme are contained just within one folder of the themes folder.

You can activate the theme after it is uploaded on the server. In order to activate this theme you have to go to the admin panel » Appearance » Themes. In this section you should see the theme with a title Study Circle. Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.



3. Homepage Setup

After activating the Study Circle theme, setup homepage using following



3. The header

The header consists of two main elements:



a. Changing the site name / logo

If you don't have your logo image then you can use site name and tagline. To change site name and tagline go to
Settings » General » Site Title

OR if you want to uplaod logo for your website go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Setting
You can also increase logo image height as per your requirement.



b. Setting the menu

  1. First of all create pages from Pages >> Add new page
  2. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  3. Click on Create a new menu link
  4. Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
  5. Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
  6. Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
  7. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


4. Homepage Slider

In order to add slides to homepage slider go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider
For each slide there are different options that you can apply.

If you don't want to use this default image slider, you can use any image slider WordPress plugin



5. Homepage Section

The homepage contatins lots of section to create beautiful and professional website.

a. Welcome

This section is used to display welcome text in your website

To manage this welcome section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Welcome to Website Section



b. Services

This section is used to display various sevices in your website

To manage this services section go to
Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Services box for frontpage section

Select page and upload services image


c. Our Courses

This section is used to display various courses in your website

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 1

In order to change Font Awesome icons in this section:

  1. Find 'fa fa-graduation-cap' and replace 'graduation-cap' with your icon name
  2. Use icon only from Font Awesome
  3. Icon name should be in lowercase letter

d. Latest News

This section is used to display latest news in your website


e. Our Achievements

This section is used to display various achievements with data counter in your website

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 3


f. Expert Teachers

This section is used to display top expert faculties


g. Student Testimonials

This section is used to display testimonials in your website


h. Why Choose Us

This section is used to display useful information

To manage this welcome section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 6


i. Merit Students

This section is used to display list of top students

To manage this welcome section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 7


j. Photo Gallery

This section is used to display photo gallery


k. Mission & Vision

This section is used to display information about mission & vision

To manage this welcome section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 9


l. Our Recruiters

This section is used to display recruiters list in your website





6. Footer

The Footer section consists of five main elements:

To manage footer section go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Footer

Setting footer menu

  1. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  2. Click on Create a new menu link
  3. Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
  4. Add pages by selecting with checkboxes.
  5. Select menu theme locations Footer Menu from Menu Settings
  6. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


7. Page Templates & Sidebars

When you create a new page from the Pages » Add New section, the "Default Template" is assigned to the page by default. The default page template is a standard page template that can be with a sidebar or full-width layout and can contain custom content.



8. Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:



9. Shortcodes

To view all shortcodes go to Appearance » Theme Options » Short Codes:



10. Multilingual

This theme is ready for translation - it comes with a .po file that contains all the embedded into the theme strings.
It supports multiple languages. The qTranslate X WordPress plugin offers a way to maintain dynamic multilingual content on a WordPress site.

How to make your website translate ready?



10. Support

If you have any questions regarding our WordPress themes, you can contact us through our support forum or you can mail us at [email protected]. Our support team is always ready to help you with any problems of customization or compatibility you may encounter.



Study Circle Free WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for using Study Circle Free WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a free WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!


1. Homepage Setup

After activating the Study Circle theme, setup homepage using following

Go to Appearance -> Customize -> Select static front page



3. Slider Setting

Go to Appearance -> Customize -> Slider Settings



4. Footer