Preparing the environment

A good first step is to make sure you have an environment setup that is ready for WordPress. This means you need to ensure that the server meets the minimum requirements and that your database is ready. For WordPress to work, your web host must provide you with a server that fulfills the following requirements:

• Support for PHP version 5 or greater (PHP 7 is recommended)
• Provision of a MySQL database (full access) of version 5.6 or greater (alternatively, MariaDB version 10.0 or greater)

Additionally, these minimum requirements tend to change occasionally. The most current requirements can always be found at https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/.

You can determine whether your host meets these two requirements by contacting the support team at your web host. If it does, you're ready to move on to the next step.