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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)

Installing themes and plugins


Just as themes and plugins can be used to enhance our own site, they can add value to sites across our network. As the network administrator, we have control over which themes and plugins our users can enable.

Note

The ability to determine the available plugins and themes is one of the key advantages of running a WordPress network. The site administrator can preselect the themes and plugins that will be most useful to network users. This is significantly different from a standalone WordPress installation, where the user has total control over themes and plugins.

Network enabled themes

Network users will not be able to search and install their own themes. Instead, network administrators will need to install a selection of themes for site users to choose from. This allows our users to personalize the look and feel of their WordPress site while providing the administrator with the ability to pre-approve or limit the use of themes. Users will also be able to change...