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. 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 folder called wordpress. In itself, that folder isn't very useful as a standalone thing. In order to make it work, you need to get it somehow onto your web server. This, we'll cover in the next sub-sections in this chapter.