To get the best out of this chapter, we need to set up an installation of WordPress—for the uninitiated, there are two ways to achieve this:
We can install WordPress as a locally hosted application using a web server such as WAMPSever (http://www.wampserver.com/en) or Apache (http://www.apachefriends.org—if you are a Linux or Mac user)
We can use a version of WordPress installed on our own web space online
For the purposes of this book, we will use the former—to get hold of WordPress, head over to http://www.wordpress.org and hit the blue Download WordPress button on the right side of the screen (near the top).
I will assume our version of WordPress has been installed locally under C:\wamp\www\wordpress
, using your local web server of choice, following the instructions available at https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress. My preference is to use WAMPServer (available from http://www.wampserver.com/en), but if you would like to use a different web server or...