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WordPress for Education

By : Adam Scott
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WordPress for Education

By: Adam Scott

Overview of this book

WordPress is typically known as a platform for blogging. However, the versatility and simplicity of WordPress makes it the perfect solution for the needs of professional educators. WordPress for Education guides readers through the practical applications of WordPress in a classroom setting. Readers will gain an understanding of the WordPress platform and how it can be used to create powerful classroom websites. WordPress for Education guides educators through the process of setting up a typical class website, creating student blogs, and using WordPress to power a learning management system. WordPress for Education provides clear and practical examples for using WordPress within the classroom. It will empower educators to create useful and engaging e-learning websites. Through the examples given in the book, you will gain an understanding of how to use WordPress to build an engaging and easy to update e-learning website. You will also learn about a variety of WordPress plugins that extend its abilities and usefulness in an educational environment, such as creating student blogs, keeping track of classroom events, managing coursework, and developing a classroom social network.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Themes


One of the advantages of using a content management system such as WordPress is that the site's content is separated from the visual design. Because of this, we are able to easily update the look of our site.

Themes is the term WordPress uses to describe the templates that control the appearance of our site. All new WordPress sites use a theme entitled Twenty Eleven.

Due to the popularity of WordPress there are currently well over a thousand free themes available through WordPress.org. Additionally, there are hundreds of premium themes for sale around the web.

We can easily search for and install free themes from within the WordPress interface. To add themes, hover over the Appearance tab in the left sidebar and choose the Themes option. This will present us with the Manage Themes screen. To search for new themes, click on the Install Themes tab at the top of the page. From here we can choose to search for themes, upload our own theme, or browse through the featured and recently...