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Shelly – School WordPress Theme
Shelly is a WordPress theme for schools, colleges, training centers, and other education providers.
Product facts
- Version
- 1.2.0
- Released
- 20 September 2026
- Type
- Theme
- Licence
- GPL
- Included in
- Every plan, or $3.99 on its own
Overview
Education websites need clear places to explain programs, introduce faculty, and share campus activities. Shelly provides a minimal, bright design built for those needs, with dedicated page layouts for teachers, classes, blog posts, and contact details. Schools, kindergartens, language schools, art schools, playrooms, and academies can use the theme to organize information for students and families.
Shelly works with Elementor, so site staff can customize pages through a drag-and-drop interface. Custom widgets cover educational content such as teachers, classes, schedules, and events. Its responsive layout adapts across desktop, tablet, and mobile screens, while theme settings and block editor options provide additional controls for colors, typography, spacing, and layout.
Features
- Elementor page editing: Customize site pages with Elementor's drag-and-drop interface, using pre-built custom widgets designed for education-related content.
- Education content widgets: Present teachers, classes, schedules, and events with custom widgets made for sharing school information.
- Responsive page layouts: The fluid design adjusts to desktop, tablet, and smartphone screens, keeping site content accessible across devices.
- Dedicated content pages: Use dedicated pages for teachers, classes, blog posts, and contact information to organize details for visitors.
- Block editor settings: Theme settings include block editor controls for the color palette, typography, spacing, and layout.
- Retina-ready graphics: High-resolution graphics are designed for high-density screens, supporting clear visuals across compatible displays.
Best for
- Schools and colleges
- Training and language centers
- Kindergartens and academies
Changelog
Version 1.2.0 — 20 August 2026
- Improved Compatibility with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.3 / 8.4
- New Added theme.json (block editor colour palette, typography, spacing and layout)
- New Added native custom-logo support, appearance-tools and align-wide
- Improved Replaced get_page_by_title(), removed in modern WordPress, with a WP_Query lookup
- Improved Rewrote the breadcrumb trail — fixed fatals on uncategorised posts, orphan attachments, unresolvable page ancestors and author archives
- Fixed Fixed a fatal on the Events archive when an event date could not be parsed
- Fixed Fixed teacher category links, which pointed at the wrong taxonomy and 404'd
- Fixed Fixed the taxonomy template overwriting the global $wp_query
- Fixed Fixed missing pagination on the Classes, Events and Teachers archives
- Fixed Fixed the gallery post format never being detected
- Fixed Fixed quote authors never rendering
- New Registered the Footer customizer section, which was never loaded
- Fixed Fixed boolean theme options that could never be switched off
- Fixed Fixed the Google Fonts request, which used css2 syntax against the css v1 endpoint
- Improved Scripts now load with the WordPress 6.3+ `defer` strategy
- Improved Hardened output escaping across templates and helpers
- New Added a real skip-link target and a <main> landmark
Earlier versions
- 1.1.2 (7 August 2024): 1 fixed
FAQ
Is Shelly – School WordPress Theme free?
The code of Shelly – School WordPress Theme is licensed under the GPL, so anyone may use, change and share it. GPL 247 is a paid service: a plan or a purchase of Shelly – School WordPress Theme gives you the download and its updates. The developer's own support, licence key and online services are not included.
Which version of Shelly – School WordPress Theme is this?
Version 1.2.0, released 20 September 2026. New versions appear here when the developer publishes them.
How do I update Shelly – School WordPress Theme?
Install GPL 247 Updater on your site and paste your key from My Account. It installs new versions of Shelly – School WordPress Theme for you.






