Student Accounts
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WordPress,
I want to buy a group of personal WordPress sites for students to practice with in our web design course – is there any academic pricing and/or how would I do a bulk purchase? Would I just buy each student a single license?I would like to pay in advance for each of the individual accounts rather than have the students individually pay for them. Can this be done?
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Why not just let the students create free sites? There is no benefit having a Personal plan apart from a lack of adverts and a custom domain address which will become a problem if you don’t wish to continue payment in future years.
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The instructor is looking for the students to have ability to have standard operations and functionality as well as themes and plugins and ability to upload media. I am under the impression that we will need at least the paid individual memberships for students to be able to do this.
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Virtually none of that is available with a Personal plan. WordPress.com is mostly for people who don’t want to mess with old-school html .A Business plan is required to access additional plugins. Might you be better with a Multisite setup using the WordPress.org software at a different host?
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I’m just adding my 2 cents thoughts on this so I have placed a Modlook tag to ask a member of staff would be kind enough to add their views too. But if plugins are a deal-breaker then the Business plan might be a step too far?
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The instructor is looking for the students to have ability to have standard operations and functionality as well as themes and plugins and ability to upload media. I am under the impression that we will need at least the paid individual memberships for students to be able to do this.
You are correct. But to have these sites hosted at WordPress.com, each site would need at minimum a Business plan, which is the plan level that gives you access to SFTP and the ability to upload/manage any plugins/themes. The Free, Personal, and Premium plans do not allow that kind of functionality.
Since this will likely be cost-prohibitive for the instructor, you may be better off getting hosting elsewhere and set up sites under a subdomain for each student. Or, if you don’t need the sites to be accessible on the internet, the WordPress software can be set up in a localhost environment.
I hope that clarifies things! Let us know if you have any questions.
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