Standard options seem to be missing
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I am new to WordPress. I am using the website login option, not the install. I am following several tutorial videos and pdf’s and each of them are referring to options I cannot see or do not have. For example an Appearance section, where I only have a Personalize->Themes option. They all have an Admin bar, I do not.
It doesn’t matter which theme I choose, I don’t have those options.
Please help.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Suzanne (apologies if that’s not your name. i’m just going off the info from the URL you provided)
Anyways, you may have already provided the answer to your question.
I am using the website login option, not the install.
The website you are currently using here, mediadesigndevdemosite.wordpress.com, is a WordPress.com hosted website.
The other type of WordPress site a person could have is the manually installed version, which we ofter refer to as the self-hosted WordPress site.
The default interface, dashboard, & options etc. are completely different for both. I recommend reading more about the differences here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/I am following several tutorial videos and pdf’s and each of them are referring to options I cannot see or do not have. For example an Appearance section, where I only have a Personalize->Themes option.
The tutorials you are mentioning are for the manually installed self-hosted version of WordPress. As previously mentioned, the default options you have available to you from your dashboard will differ from WordPress.com hosted sites and self-hosted WordPress sites.
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Thank you Paulo for your help, it was very much appreciated. I am a teacher, and are writing classes to teach students how to use WordPress. The sites created will never be “live”, it’s just for learning purposes – so no hosting is required. With that in mind, should I use the .com or .org interface do you think?
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It seems we have quite a bit in common. I’m also a HS teacher, who also introduced WordPress in my curriculum. Believe it or not, even with WordPress.com’s easy to follow setup instructions, students were still having trouble getting their sites up and running.
I can only imagine how much more confusion there would be if they had to go through the manual installation of WordPress required for self hosted sites.
But to answer your question, I would definitely stick with WordPress.com if you plan on using WordPress with students.
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I also forgot to previously mention, as this might only be relevant for educators, but this could be of interest and worth looking into:
Edublogs: Easy Blogging For Education (Powered By WordPress)
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Hi there,
Just to chime in here, I agree with @pauloeaquino that WordPress.com will be much simpler if you want to introduce your students to working with WordPress. Setting up a local (offline) installation of the WordPress software is quite complicated, as you’ll need to run a virtual server on your computer to do that and is definitely not something I’d advise for first timers.
With WordPress.com you need to be online to use it, but the sites themselves don’t have to be as you can set the sites to private so only people who are users on the site can view them. And you should be able to do everything that falls within the scope of your class with a site on the free plan.
I suggest you take a look at https://learn.wordpress.com/ to quickly learn how everything works here. You can also find several tutorials, including video tutorials here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/
If you decide to go with WordPress.com, note that we limit how many accounts can be created from a single IP in a given timeframe. If you have a large number of students that will be creating accounts from the same network you might run into these limits. Please let us know in that case, so we can whitelist your school’s IP addresses.
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