Copy-pasting from an email exchange, regarding queries about using Wordpress instead of or in addition to Moodle -
Option Two:
Website using WordPress both for content creation and distribution.
A quick google search turned up
- so there seem to be plugins available which would enable collaborative editing.
I
have not used them myself, but should be relatively easy to set up. If
you have some volunteer who knows a bit of Wordpress usage (like
you had S for Moodle), they can suggest ways and means of
customizing Wordpress to best suit your needs. People with Wordpress
experience are much more common than people with Moodle experience.
Wordpress, in general, would use less hardware resources than Moodle
too, because Moodle has much more elaborate logging, reporting and
forum tools. There is also the option of using completely managed
Wordpress hosting, like
3) Option Three:
One more instance of CMS and WordPress for making available content to stakeholders plus general users as explained above.
This is, of course, possible. A quick google search yields
One potential disadvantage would be that Wordpress is very common, so attacks on Wordpress are also very common - mostly due to plugins which don't get updated etc.
We
would need to be vigilant, subscribe to some WP security bulletins etc
and keep updating regularly to avoid issues. Using Managed WP hosting as
in the link above,
can help with managing some of the security issues more easily.
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