It4k12 wordpress
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This document provides an overview of WordPress, including that it is free and open source software, has a large community and available themes/plugins, and can be easily installed and configured for personalizing learning. Key points covered include the differences between posts and pages, using widgets and menus, options for themes and plugins, performing updates, and using WordPress Multisite to allow users to personalize their own blogs.
It4k12 wordpress
- 1. Impressed with IT4K12 - Jarrod Bell - SD60 twitter @jbellsd60 jbell@prn.bc.ca image: http://s.wordpress.org/about/images/logos/wordpress-logo-stacked-rgb.png
- 2. Wordpress ● Free Open Source Software ● Community Driven ● Freely available themes and plugins ● free and paid support, hosting options ● Included in many hosted services as an option in cpanel / config tools along with others like Drupal, Joomla etc.
- 3. Options Options Options ● Drupal - http://edcampleadership.deltasd.bc. ca/ ● Joomla - http://www.neat.ca ● Wordpress - what we'll look at a little today from install to use
- 4. What do I Need? ● Host that supports ● Your own web server and a static IP ○ how I started ● Apache, MySQL, PHP (xampp, lamp, wamp) ● IIS ● database, and database user & pass
- 5. Time ● can train end users in under an hour ● familiar to users if they have been using services like edublogs.org, wordpress.com, kidblog.org ● on to the famous five minute install (assuming your web server is set up)
- 6. Install ● load the package to a web folder ● update the wp-config-sample.php file with your info ● save as wp-config.php in the root folder for the site
- 8. Posts and Pages ● What's the difference between a Post and a Page?
- 9. Widgets ● example: tag cloud - http://www.prn.bc. ca/ww/
- 10. Menus ● menus have evolved!
- 11. Themes ● Freely available from wordpress.org ● Or elsewhere - buyer beware!
- 12. Plugins ● a couple of suggestions ● security ● spam
- 13. Updates ● backup and push the button ● or just push the button (hold your breath and hope you didn't need to backup - never had a problem though)
- 14. Question ● If we are asking schools and teachers to personalize learning - shouldn't we allow them web tools they can personalize too?
- 15. Next thing to learn ● Wordpress MultiSite (used to be multi-user) ○ Many instances managed from one admin console ○ tie it to user directory system (users create own blog) ○ UBC and SD73 as examples
- 16. Thank you! @jbellsd60 jbell@prn.bc.ca 250-262-6011 Slides will be available via slideshare on www. prn.bc.ca/ts QR Code generated at http://qrcode.kaywa.com/