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Get WordPress - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: Installing and Running WordPress: Shared Hosting
Get WordPress
- [Instructor] WordPress is a publishing application that is free and open source so you or anyone is free to download the software and use it however is desired. Just to be clear, there are two types of WordPress. You can sign up for a free WordPress site at wordpress.com here WordPress is hosted for you, so there is no need to get shared hosting or a domain name. The service is free and great, but limited in many ways compared to self-hosted WordPress. Self-hosted WordPress is available here at wordpress.org, going with a self-hosted WordPress site means that you have full control over everything. And can customize to a much greater degree than with the free hosted service. So to go with self-hosted WordPress, we can download the WordPress core files here at wordpress.org. Always download directly from this location, which always will give you the latest official version that has not been modified in any way. To get…
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