Downloading WordPress 

Once you have checked your environment, you need to download WordPress from https://wordpress.org/download/. There's a big blue download button there. It's hard to miss. What you get once you click it is a .zip archive of the most recent version of the WordPress software. Extracting that archive onto your desktop will give you a directory called wordpress. In itself, that directory isn't very useful as a stand-alone thing. In order to make it work, you somehow need to get it onto your web server. This will be covered in the next subsections in this chapter.

If you're working on local server setup, all you have to do is copy that WordPress directory to wherever your local server operates from. If you're working on a remote server, you'll have to use third-party tools to upload WordPress there. I'll show you how to do that next.