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New Introductory and Advanced WordPress Courses Available from BCIT

by Tris Hussey on November 17, 2009 · 5 comments

in Blogging, Blogging 101, Create Your Own Blog, Internet Life, Social Media, Teaching, Web 2.0, WordPress

By popular demand, I am teaching another round of WordPress courses January 16th and April 10th, 2010. These courses are being offered through BCIT and will be offered as separate morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session will use WordPress.com to build a website/blog. The afternoon session will use WordPress you install yourself to build the same kind of site, but with more customized features.
You can sign up for the WordPress morning course and WordPress afternoon course through the BCIT website.
I know that the courses will be taught in the [...]

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WordPress.com and WordPress can co-exist, but maybe with new names

by Tris Hussey on June 24, 2009 · 2 comments

in Blogging, Web 2.0, WordPress

In the WordPress world many of us, especially those like me who teach people how to use it, are often explaining WordPress.com vs WordPress.org to people. The answer, simply, is WP.com is a hosted service where you can have a WordPress-powered blog/site and WP.org is where you download the WordPress software to install on your own servers.
Seems simple to us, but we’ve also been doing this since before WP.com existed so we can make the distinction easily.
As for features, WP.com doesn’t give you all the features of installing WP yourself, [...]

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