From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks
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WordPress
From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks
WordPress
Some developers may not consider WordPress a framework, and many will readily admit it's a very different definition of framework. And WordPress is decidedly different in installation. It hails from the procedural days of PHP and has a strict commitment to not breaking backward compatibility, so much so that PHP has had to account for WordPress's back compatibility when deprecating features in PHP. Now to install, I'll download it with wget and then unzip and delete the file. Now, before I do anything with WordPress, I'll note, it's way less forgiving than other frameworks about database. So if you're working in WordPress, head to your wp-config.php file and configure your database settings here. Now there are a ton of configuration requirements for Codespaces in WordPress that aren't useful in this conversation. So I'm going to drop into a WordPress install I have for this purpose. Before I do, I want to call out wp-content, plugins, and themes. These are the directories you'll do…