{"id":375,"date":"2019-04-05T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.buffalo.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=375"},"modified":"2019-04-05T03:04:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:04:36","slug":"keeping-it-simple-wp-in-the-classroom-and-for-research","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/session\/keeping-it-simple-wp-in-the-classroom-and-for-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping It Simple &#8211; WP in the Classroom and for Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Websites can be a good way for students and instructors to share information, but the coding requirements of some web design platforms can create a nearly insurmountable barrier. I have found WordPress very useful for both teaching and research because it allows beginners to design pages without coding but still allows flexibility and modification of the code. I will discuss two ways I have used WordPress: in a student-run blog for a course and in a website I built using Divi to promote my research projects. I will highlight some of the Divi widgets and components that I have found particularly useful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Websites can be a good way for students and instructors to share information, but the coding requirements of some web design platforms can create a nearly insurmountable barrier. I have found WordPress very useful for both teaching and research because it allows beginners to design pages without coding but still allows flexibility and modification of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/session\/keeping-it-simple-wp-in-the-classroom-and-for-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keeping It Simple &#8211; WP in the Classroom and for Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16998472,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1556361000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[374],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[13411],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-375","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-1","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIvej-63","session_date_time":{"date":"April 27, 2019","time":"10:30 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"374","slug":"yonatan1970","name":"Jonathan Lawrence","link":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/yonatan1970\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/375\/revisions\/455"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/374"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/yonatan1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}