WordPress is a free web-application used for building professional and stylish websites. Without any doubts, we can say that the platform is one of the most used Open Source applications these days. Contributing to this is the user-friendly admin interface and easy to use themes and plugins provided mostly for free.
In the beginning, WordPress started as a blogging tool used by millions. Within a few years, the platform became a strong foundation for many businesses, social and even e-commerce types of websites. Those sites required the transformation of the application to a fully manageable CMS based on PHP and MySQL.
Security
WordPress can be installed on a multitude of platforms. Though the WordPress core software provides many provisions for operating a secure web application, the configuration of the operating system and the underlying web server hosting the software is equally important to keep the WordPress applications secure.
Requirements
To run WordPress, it is recommended:
- PHP >= 7.1.3
- MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.1 or higher.
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
Download and Extract the WordPress Files
The installation will require you to download the main installation package for the application. It is distributed and available for downloads on the official community website.
