Teaching WordPress – should I do a local install?

  • Hi

    I am will be teaching www.remarpro.com for the first time. Since it is a short course students will have to choose and register domain name and hosting on the first hour.

    Issue- I suspect many will have problems coming up with the domain name there and then and might not have credit card to pay for them etc.

    Question – what should I use instead? I’d like to avoid using XAMPP as this is a beginner’s course. Is there a way that I could get students to register for a free domain and host that’s good enough to do what say, bluehost would do? Or, should I purchase hosting with unlimited domain name so it could be used by my students for the sake of the class?

    Appreciate some feedback especially from people who have done training before!

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  • You are welcome!

    According to the restrictions of the school, you can always talk to them to ask for resources, this is one of the caees.

    1) It is quite normal situation. We have this at our school, but every teacher asking for administrative rights we give them. We just ask the teachers tobe responsible with them. We give a user of the administrators group, but not the administrator (single user). Anyway not receiving this, after asking for it, it is quite normal, but you have done your work.

    2) More or less the same. Anyway the answer, usually, is more possitive than in the case (1). It is just a filter, to open the port 21 for certain computers at certain period of time, is very easy and not problematic to the school (if the school has the control of the filter).

    Conclusion: I would apply explaining why I need them.

    Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Hi,

    I have used xampp for years but after annoying issues (blocked ports out of the blue) I start using wampsever several months ago. Much better!

    I mostly test on a local host because when you crash your site you can solve this much easier when crashing a site in live enviroment.

    Guido

    Also, lately I have come across some nice solutions for teaching purposes which utilize Docker. It is quite easy to setup a docker recipe for your students to run like “docker run wordpress” and voila they have a sandboxed running WordPress installation.

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