The more-or-less default ProfHacker position is in favor of WordPress for a variety of academic purposes. As limit cases, see: using WordPress as an LMS, creating an alternative department website

This year, I’ve knuckled under and started a site that hosts all my teaching blogs on the same site. (No, I’m not going to link to it, because I’m not happy with everything yet.) WordPress 3.0 makes hosting multiple blogs on the same domain pretty easy to do, so the process of setting up WP sites for three courses was fairly uneventful.

Except: There’s boilerplate that needs to be in every syllabus or course website. Some of this is pretty static (such as a statement on accessibility), but some of it might change at regular intervals (my office hours/schedule for a semester).

I am a lazy, lazy person, and have no interest…

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