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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 administrator plugins


In addition to enhancing the functionality of our public website, there are plugins designed to improve the experience of network administration. These plugins can provide network administrators with the ability to create new site templates, manage user plugins, and track activity across the network.

New Blog Templates

New Blog Templates (http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/new-blog-template) is a premium plugin by WPMU DEV. This plugin allows network administrators to create an empty template site, which can feature any pages, settings, plugins, content, and themes we wish. New sites can then be created using the template site as a basis, taking some of the initial workload from the user. This plugin is incredibly useful when developing student portfolios.

As a premium plugin, it is not free to download or available directly through our WordPress installation. To purchase and install the New Blog Templates plugin, visit the WPMU DEV website (http://premium...