Which Wordpress is for Me?

This tool will help you determine which WordPress hosting service will best meet you or your organizations needs. Choose which option best describes you and your project: * [[I want to create a personal website|Personal]] * [[I want to practice with Wordpress with no specific goal in mind except to learn and have fun|Personal]] * [[I am a current UVic student, staff, or faculty member creating an academic-related website that I might want to continue to use after my time at UVic comes to an end|OpenEd]] * [[I am a UVic instructor creating a class website for a course|Course]] * [[I am creating a website for a UVic-hosted research lab, department, club, or other UVic organization|OAC]] * [[I am from a different academic institution in British Columbia, Canada, wanting to create an academic-related website|OpenEd]] * [[I want to create a website that may have commercial elements (e.g., items or services for sale or hire)|Wordpress.com]] * [[I am from outside British Columbia and am not from UVic|Wordpress.com]]

The BC Campus sponsored OpenEd.ca WordPress hosting platform is probably a good choice for you for the following reasons: - No fee for hosting - Your websites won't get shut down 6-months after you leave UVic (like UVic's OAC websites do) - Lots of templates - Lots of useful plugins - Easily migratable to other WordPress hosting provides You can reqest an OpenEd.ca account using your UVic email address at the <a href="https://opened.ca/wp-signup.php">OpenEd.ca signup page</a>. We advise you do this prior to the workshop as there can sometimes be a delay in the setup of this service in particular.

<a href="https://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a> has various tiers of websites available, including a free tier for both commericial and non-commercial personal sites. You can set up multiple Wordpress sites, so this can be place to set up a sandbox site to play with various Wordpress themes and features, and learn without feeling the pressure of making everything perfect. Note: The free version does include some Wordpress ads.

For personal websites you have some options to choose from: * <a href="https://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a> has various tiers of websites available, including a free tier for both commericial and non-commercial personal sites. You can set up multiple Wordpress sites, so this can be place to set up a sandbox site to play with various Wordpress themes and features, and learn without feeling the pressure of making everything perfect. Note: The free version does include some Wordpress ads. * If you are a current UVic student, staff, or faculty, you can create multiple UVic Online Academic Community (OAC) websites and assign various tiers of admin and editing roles to users to work on the site. Hosting of all data is kept on UVic servers. Request your UVic-hosted <a href="https://oac.uvic.ca">OAC website here</a>.

If you are a current UVic student, staff, or faculty, you can create multiple UVic Online Academic Community (OAC) websites and assign various tiers of admin and editing roles to users to work on the site. Hosting of all data is kept on UVic servers. If this site if part of an ongoing organization, department, club, etc,, the site ownership and admin can be transferred as needed. Request your UVic hosted <a href="https://oac.uvic.ca">OAC website here</a>.

For a university course you have a couple of recommended options to consider: * OpenEd.ca is a very strong option for most instructors because of the many educational and pedagogically helpful plugins that the OpenEd.ca folks include by default in all websites. Hosting is in Canada. Register for an OpenEd.ca website with your UVic or other British Columbia school email address at the <a href="https://opened.ca/wp-signup.php">OpenEd.ca signup page</a>. We advise you do this prior to the workshop as there can sometimes be a delay in the setup of this service in particular. * If you are a current UVic student, staff, or faculty, you can create multiple UVic Online Academic Community (OAC) websites and assign various tiers of admin and editing roles to users to work on the site. Hosting of all data is kept on UVic servers. If this site if part of an ongoing organization, department, club, etc,, the site ownership and admin can be transferred as needed. Request your UVic-hosted <a href="https://oac.uvic.ca">OAC website here</a>.

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