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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)

Site backups


WordPress stores our site's content within a database. Backing up our database will prevent the loss of pages, posts, and comments in the event of a database error.

While our database can be backed up manually, it should not surprise you to learn that there are many plugins that will automate the process. The WordPress Database Backup plugin by Austin Matzko (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/) will allow us to not only download database backups, but will also e-mail them to us on a regular basis, creating a simple and automatic backup solution.

To install the WordPress Database Backup plugin, search for WP-DB-Backup from the Install Plugins WordPress screen.

Once the plugin is installed and activated, visit the Backup screen by hovering over Tools in the WordPress left sidebar and selecting Backup.

To perform a manual backup, scroll to the Backup Options link and click on the Backup now! button. This will download a database backup to your computer.

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