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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.
We're going to focus mainly on the remote installation of WordPress here, as in, getting it installed somewhere else other than on your own computer. However, if you plan to develop themes or plugins, it is recommended that you install WordPress locally as well, on a local server. Testing and deploying themes and plugins directly to the remote server will be much more time-consuming than working locally. If you look at the screenshots depicting WordPress installation throughout the book, you'll notice that all these are examples of working locally.