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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)

Plugins


There are thousands of WordPress plugins available, each designed to add a unique functionality to WordPress. In this section, I will cover a few of the plugins that are useful in an education setting. To find and install these plugins, visit the Add New Plugins page within WordPress and search for them by name.

Preinstalled WordPress plugins

WordPress comes with two plugins pre-installed, Hello Dolly and Akismet. The Hello Dolly plugin was created by Matt Mulenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, while Akismet is developed and maintained by Automattic, the company behind the commercially hosted WordPress.com. While these plugins come pre-installed with every new WordPress installation, they are not activated and there is no requirement to do so.

Hello Dolly

Hello Dolly is a fun plugin that adds a random lyric from Hello, Dolly to the admin screen. While this plugin may not have a practical application for a WordPress site, it allows us to grow in comfort activating or deactivating...