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Code Overview
DOWNLOADING
ОглавлениеThe first step to installing WordPress is to download the source files required for WordPress to run. This section digs deeper into the core of WordPress.
Download Locations
You can download the latest stable release of WordPress directly from WordPress.org by visiting the download page located at http://wordpress.org/download/.
You can also update WordPress directly from your current WordPress installation by visiting the Updates WordPress section under the Dashboard ➢ Updates screen. Click the Download button to download the latest version of WordPress to your computer.
WordPress also features Subversion (SVN) access. Subversion is a free, open source version control system. WordPress uses Subversion to manage files and directories and the changes made to them. You can download the latest WordPress source code by checking out http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/.
The SVN trunk directory contains the bleeding edge version of WordPress that is actively being developed. Typically, this version of WordPress contains bugs and is generally used for testing purposes. Running a production website using the trunk version of WordPress is not recommended.
SVN is the mechanism developers use to actively develop on the WordPress core software. With SVN, you can create and submit patch files for inclusion into the WordPress core. Chapter 16 covers this in detail.
Git is another very popular source code management system. Many developers, and not just in the WordPress community, have switched from SVN to Git for version control because of the many benefits Git offers over SVN. The WordPress core team has set up a Git mirror for WordPress core development. To access the Git repository run the command git clone git://develop.git.wordpress.org/. For more information on working with Git and WordPress core development, visit http://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/01/15/git-mirrors-for-wordpress/.
The SVN and Git repositories are considered equals, so if you plan to work with the WordPress core you can use the version control system that you are most comfortable with.
Available Formats
The default format for the WordPress software download is in a compressed zip archive named latest.zip. You can also download WordPress in a compressed tar archive named latest.tar.gz. There is no difference between the files in the archive, only the compression method used.
You can download the zip and tar archives directly from these URLs:
These download links never change. Each new version of WordPress is automatically compressed and saved at this location when the version is tagged. When you save the archive to your computer, you should rename the file to include the WordPress version number, such as wordpress-4.1.zip. This will help you remember what version of WordPress you saved to your computer.
Release Archive
WordPress.org features a release archive for WordPress. The Release Archive features a list of downloadable archives for every release of WordPress since version 0.71. The archive is located at http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/.
Remember that only the most current version of WordPress is actively maintained so these downloads are more for reference than actual use. “Actively maintained” means that critical fixes for security, performance, or reliability problems are made to the active branch and not applied retroactively to previous releases. If you need the fix, you’ll need to upgrade your installed version of WordPress.
Another great use for these older versions of WordPress is to roll a website back to a previous version. For example, if you update a very old version of WordPress to the latest stable version and run into problems, you could easily download the old version that the website was originally running to revert to. The Release Archive also features a download for every beta and release candidate version of WordPress as well. This is great to see the overall growth of WordPress as a software platform.
The release archives are also useful if you need to update an old version of WordPress that has hacks made to the core. Simply compare the website’s WordPress source code with the same version of WordPress from the release archive and any differences, or core hacks, will be discovered.
