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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)

Before installing


The server requirements of a WordPress network are the same as those needed to power an individual WordPress site. It is important to be aware that the additional sites created by the network will increase the amount of bandwidth used as well as the size of the database. If the network is larger than a few sites, contact the hosting company to ensure that your hosting package will be able to handle the extra load.

When creating a network, there are two types of site URLs from which we can choose:

In order to use the sub-domain option, we must make changes at the server or hosting level and update the DNS configuration. For this reason, I recommend using the sub-directory option. The only requirement of the sub-directory network is that our primary site is already using permalinks...