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How to use this documentation?
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.
Once you press the Download WordPress button, you will be redirected to the download page of the platform where clicking on another similar button you will download the latest version of the installation archive.
Latest Version
For the sake of security matters, we always recommend downloading the latest stable version of WordPress. It will guarantee that your business is protected against the most current vulnerabilities on the "market" and also be patched for security holes regularly.
Upload the WordPress Files with FTP
What you need to do with these files is to upload them in the directory of your hosting account where your application should be. Of course, if you want your website to be accessed via your primary domain, you should put all of the files in the public_html directory.
Once you choose an FTP service and connect to the server, navigate to the folder, you have selected for your application. Then upload the files using your FTP client's options.