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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)

Network content


Displaying network content on our WordPress site is a great way to draw students and site visitors to the content published across the network. There are plugins available that allow us to display a list of network sites as well as generate a list of recent posts made from network sites. By displaying network content on our site, students are able to easily browse and access the work of their peers.

Displaying a list of network sites

The Multi-Site Site List Shortcode plugin creates a shortcode that when added to a page will display a list of links to all of the sites in the network. Once this plugin is installed and activated, add [site-list] to the body of a page to display the site list. For example, you might use this to create a Students page listing all of the individual student sites in the network. This would help students to connect with their classmates, promoting discussion and peer review of student posts.

Displaying network posts

The Multisite Recent Posts Widget...