WordPress for Education电子书

WordPress for Education

Table of Contents

WordPress for Education

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

Self-hosted WordPress or WordPress.com

Who this book is for

What you need for this book

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Installing and Configuring WordPress

Installing WordPress

Purchased hosting

Installing WordPress with purchased hosting

Finishing the installation

Manually installing WordPress

WordPress overview

Creating posts and pages

Writing a new post

Creating a page

Settings

General Settings

Writing Settings

Reading Settings

Discussion Settings

Media Settings

Privacy Settings

Permalinks

Summary

2. Setting Up Our Class Site

Basics of post and page editing

Previewing and publishing options

Pages

Creating a home page

Making the Home page static

Syllabus page

Deleting the sample page

Posts

Adding a video to a post

Categories and tags

Editing an existing post and adding an image

Adding an image

Editing post categories

Themes

Widgets

Menus

Summary

3. Enhancing WordPress with Plugins

Finding and installing plugins

Managing plugins

Plugins

Preinstalled WordPress plugins

Hello Dolly

Akismet

Education plugins

ScholarPress Courseware

WP Survey and Quiz Tool

Grader

Conversation and communication plugins

Contact Form 7

Semi-Private Comments

IntenseDebate Comments

Disqus

bbPress

Social plugins

WP to Twitter

Simple Facebook Connect

Other Plugins

Jetpack

Calendar

WordPress Mobile Pack

Add Multiple Users for WordPress

Anthologize

Updating plugins

Uninstalling plugins

Summary

4. Enabling a Multisite Network

Before installing

Creating the network

Exploring the Network Admin area

Creating a new site

Installing themes and plugins

Network enabled themes

Network enabled plugins

Network administrator plugins

New Blog Templates

Multisite Plugin Manager

ThreeWP Activity Monitor

Network content

Displaying a list of network sites

Displaying network posts

Summary

5. Creating a Social Network with BuddyPress

WordPress, Multisite, and BuddyPress

Installing BuddyPress

Components

Pages

Permalinks

Theme

Finish

Registering student accounts

Individually registering students

Enabling student self-registration

Activity

Friend connections

Groups

Forums

Group forums

Sitewide forums

Protecting student privacy

Summary

6. BuddyPress Courseware

Installing and configuring BP Courseware

BuddyPress Courseware settings

Global settings

Collaboration settings

Make assignment responses private

Gradebook default grade format

Webservices API integration

Customization

Renaming the groups page

Setting Courses as the site home page

Creating a course

Enabling BP Courseware

Courseware dashboard

Adding course content

Lectures

Assignments

Posting assignments as a teacher

Submitting assignments as a student

Viewing student responses

Gradebook

Bibliography

Schedule and calendar

Teacher and student roles

Help and support

Summary

7. Site Management

Site backups

Site performance

WP Super Cache

Better WP Minify

Site security

Secure WordPress

WP Security Scan

Updating WordPress

Summary

8. WordPress Resources and Plugins

WordPress resources

WordPress Codex

WordPress Support Forum

WordPress Showcase: Education

wp-edu discussion list

Digging into WordPress

Plugin directory

Index