WordPress.com Education, supporting, encouraging younger bloggers

WordPress.com Education, is an initiative launched earlier week, designed to give school students across the world resources to setup and maintain their own blog: This isn’t a stripped-down classroom version of WordPress.com. The Student Plan includes plugin support, 6 GB of storage, backups, staging sites, SFTP/SSH, phpMyAdmin, and Studio Sync. Students learn and build with many of the same tools they’ll encounter working with WordPress professionally. The student plan, which includes everything that comes with the free WordPress.com blogs, together with the subscription personal and premium plans, is free for the first year. For sure, WordPress has its naysayers, but anything that encourages people, particularly school students, to give social media a rest, and engage more fully with the web, can only be a good thing. Getting started as a blogger, which is the main thing, is simplified with out-of-the-box products like WordPress.com. Once someone has reached a certain level of…