Polaris

Overview

A cinematic WordPress theme for online schools, course creators, bootcamps and academies. Its signature is a navigable 3D knowledge constellation: a real-time Three.js star map where every course is a star, prerequisites are the glowing lines between them, and a background starfield gives real depth. Visitors drag to rotate the night sky, hover a star to read its course, and click to open it — a genuinely interactive way to browse a catalogue rather than a static grid. Behind the whole site sits a scroll-reactive GPU night-sky that crossfades through six distinct procedural scenes — deep nebula, aurora veil, warp starlines, a constellation grid, cosmic dawn and quiet dusk — so every section sits over its own moving background instead of one flat wash.

Under the surface it is a complete learning platform: Courses, Learning Paths and Instructors are real custom post types organised by Subject, with per-course curriculum, price, level, duration, rating and instructor meta. A long, richly-sectioned front page moves from the constellation hero through animated stats, subjects, featured courses, learning paths, a manifesto, instructors, journal and a nonce-protected AJAX enrolment sign-up. The one-click demo importer even generates original night-sky course artwork procedurally, so there are no stock-photo licences to worry about. Deep indigo night with warm starlight gold and cool cyan; Fraunces over Familjen Grotesk with Space Mono for metadata. The WebGL is capability-gated with a designed static fallback — the hero heading is always the LCP, and with reduced motion or no JavaScript every course and page is fully present and readable.