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Setting up the development environment

In order to get started with WordPress development, you will need a working development environment that supports WordPress. So, we need to focus on the essential steps for building a development environment, such as the following:

Installing a development stack that supports PHP, Apache, and MySQL or Maria DB
Installing and configuring WordPress
Setting up web browsers and code editors

Let's take a quick look at each of these options for building the ideal development environment for WordPress.

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