What wp theme would work for this site?

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Hi Guys,

I am setting up a new website called myfreelessons.com which will function as a portal for listing all different types of free lessons in all different types of categories, starting small and growing as the community expands and social sharing increases.

I have had some professional written courses created for learning guitar, and a whole host of lessons written for the marketing world, the focus isn't on any type of lessons, just on the fact that they are free.

The incentive for people to list will be the link back to their websites or other, where they can hope to sell a product due to the awesome free value the customer received from their myfreelesson.com/listing.

There is scope to build on this further....but for now I just want to find out If there is a wordpress theme that anyone knows about that would fit this function of requirements....people would need to be able to list a lesson, video, text, html etc included.

It would be a site where you have to register as a member (for free) to gain access to all the free lessons...this way I capture their email address, and can somehow monitor their activity on the site, so to potentially further break down their interests and apply to targeted future campaigns as a result of activity feedback.

Does that make sense?

Any suggestions most welcomed.

Cheers

Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author tonylogan
    With wordpress you can do anything. If you look at WPMU you will find themes and plugins for this.

    A simple option is to get a wordpress article directory theme and change some lines of code to get it done.

    The project makes sense, but there are some things you need to think about.

    Authors won't post their lessons if the website is only for subscribers. They only will post their lessons if the have more exposure to promote their products.

    In my opinion is better to have the an open website to get more authors and exposure.You can monetize placing ads based on each category.

    You can also collect emails based on category the user is visiting. Look for behavioural email marketing on Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author micknal29
    Excellent Feedback, I will have a look into that...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Sommers
    Originally Posted by micknal29 View Post

    Hi Guys,

    I am setting up a new website called myfreelessons.com which will function as a portal for listing all different types of free lessons in all different types of categories, starting small and growing as the community expands and social sharing increases.

    I have had some professional written courses created for learning guitar, and a whole host of lessons written for the marketing world, the focus isn't on any type of lessons, just on the fact that they are free.

    The incentive for people to list will be the link back to their websites or other, where they can hope to sell a product due to the awesome free value the customer received from their myfreelesson.com/listing.

    There is scope to build on this further....but for now I just want to find out If there is a wordpress theme that anyone knows about that would fit this function of requirements....people would need to be able to list a lesson, video, text, html etc included.

    It would be a site where you have to register as a member (for free) to gain access to all the free lessons...this way I capture their email address, and can somehow monitor their activity on the site, so to potentially further break down their interests and apply to targeted future campaigns as a result of activity feedback.

    Does that make sense?

    Any suggestions most welcomed.

    Cheers

    Mike
    Hi,
    I believe you should keep it as simple as possible. Lately I have used Weaver11 on a couple of sites. You can find it in your admin >themes>Install themes and you will find it i the list. You can find it by using search here or look for it by selecting two column side bar right etc. It is free and if you are giving music lessons the default header is a keyboard
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  • Profile picture of the author micknal29
    Excellent will have a look at this now...I think overall though the site will be more than a music free lesson site, and more of a completely open site, a free for all kinda thing....
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