WordPress.com Scholar Plan | CSS-Methods

So pleased to see WordPress.com providing a pricing tier geared toward college students that provides them free internet hosting for a yr:

WordPress.com affords the Scholar plan free, so value isn’t a barrier to studying net expertise. The purpose is for college students of any topic to create and share their ideas and work on-line, and to personal their on-line presence from the beginning.

I additionally assume it’s means overdue. As somebody who teaches starting net improvement, I discover that constructing a WordPress web site makes for a terrific closing mission to reveal the myriad expertise coated over the course of a semester — HTML, CSS, design, internet hosting, and many others. Internet hosting these tasks has at all times been a roadblock although.

I’ve tried a number of othered issues through the years: Shared internet hosting plans (which units me again financially), WPSandox.io (gone bye-bye although there are options), WordPress Playground (saving and sharing work is difficult), sponsored internet hosting (it’s a tough promote on a semester-by-semester foundation), and on and on.

A scholar plan with a year-long leash straight from the supply is the proper answer. You may assume that WordPress.com is simply too point-and-click in comparison with a self-hosted WordPress.org web site, however dot-com affords all the identical developer affordances for straight touching code today.

It’s value noting that the deal is barely good for .weblog and .artwork domains. Not a deal-breaker in anyway in terms of academic functions. You possibly can at all times level it elsewhere down the street if you wish to spend a couple of bucks.

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