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Less Web Development Cookbook

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Less Web Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Less Web Development Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing WordPress


WordPress has a core that can be easily installed. Besides the core, WordPress has themes for visual representation and plugins for additional functionalities.

Getting Ready

You can install WordPress on any server that supports PHP and MySQL. At the time of writing this book, the minimal requirements for PHP and MySQL are as follows:

  • PHP Version 5.2.4 or greater

  • MySQL Version 5.0 or greater

You can download the latest version of WordPress from https://wordpress.org/download/.

The installation process of WordPress has been refined and improved over the last few years. Installing WordPress is really easy now. WordPress provides you with a 5-minute installation guide at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install.

How to do it…

Globally, you will have to follow the ensuing steps:

  1. Download and unzip the WordPress package.

  2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server.

  3. Upload the WordPress files to a public folder on your web server.

  4. Run the WordPress...