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Installing WordPress and WP-CLI

Installing WordPress and WP-CLI

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Installing WordPress and WP-CLI

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- [Narrator] WordPress is an open-source blogging tool and content management system available from wordpress.org. To learn more about WordPress, check out WordPress Essential Training with Morten Rand-Hendrickson here in the online training library. We're also going to install the WordPress command-line interface available from wp-cli.org. That way, you'll have an excellent start for development. To help with installation, we're going to use three new commands. The first is wget which downloads files from a network. The second is tar which is an archiving library for compressing and extracting files. We're going to extract the contents of a downloaded file. The final command is rm which removes files. Remember, a clean site is a happy site. We're ready to install WordPress and WP-CLI. Let's switch the terminal. Change directory to the /media/sf_sandbox directory if you're not already there. Use wget to download the latest version of WordPress from https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz.…

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