In order to build a website or blog with WordPress, you can use the free tool at WordPress.com or download WordPress. In this article, I will guide you how to download WordPress and use it for many different purposes.

As you know, WordPress is an opened source blogging platform. It is used by millions website and bloggers all around the world.

1. Download the Latest Stable Version of WordPress

Access to the website: https://wordpress.org to download the latest version of WordPress. Then click on the blue button with the text “Download WordPress x.x.” as shown below to download WordPress:

Go to WordPress.org to download WordPress latest stable version
Go to WordPress.org to download the latest stable version of WordPress

2. Download the Previous Versions of WordPress

If you want to download old versions of WordPress, visit the website Release Archive.
Then click on “zip” to download the old version of WordPress.

Click on "zip" to download the old version of WordPress
Click on “zip” to download the old version of WordPress

3. Download the Beta Version of WordPress

If you has only a dabbling of PHP and want to participate in the process of WordPress testing and notify the errors that you find to WordPress developers. You can download the beta version of WordPress by following the instructions here:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/beta/

Go to handbook testing beta to see how to download WordPress Beta version
Go to handbook testing beta to see how to download WordPress Beta version

4. Download the Source Code of WordPress

If you want to directly participate in the process of WordPress development as a WordPress developer, you can download /checkout Source Code via Git or Subversion (SVN). Link of the repos that you can see at the following link: https://wordpress.org/download/source/

Go to WordPress.org > Download > Source Code to download WordPress Source Code
Go to WordPress.org > Download > Source Code to download WordPress Source Code

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