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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)

Basics of post and page editing


While they perform two different functions, the post and page editors look and act in a very similar way. As described in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring WordPress, creating a new post or page is as simple as choosing the Add New option, typing some text, and clicking on the Publish button. Fortunately, WordPress provides a great deal of flexibility when it comes to the content and formatting of a post or page.

When writing or editing posts/pages, we are given the choice of using either the Visual editor or HTML editor. By default we are presented with the Visual editor, which acts similarly to a word processor. Clicking on the HTML tab will switch to the HTML editor, allowing those who know HTML the ability to directly edit the markup of a post or page.

When in Visual editor mode, there is a row of buttons between the Title and Post Editing area that allow us to control the formatting of our text. The first several buttons perform basic text formatting...