Title: Getting started
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Getting started

 *  [morganm1356](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morganm1356/)
 * (@morganm1356)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-59/)
 * Hi!
    I’m new to wordpress and am in the process of downloading it. I downloaded
   it and unzipped the file, but am super confused about what to do next! Can anyone
   help me, please? I see that I’m supposed to have a “shell” according to the next
   step but I don’t know what that means.. Am I meant to download apache? Any help
   is appriciated! I recently bought a paid theme for wordpress, too (I know I need
   to contact them for help with their product- i’m just including this info in 
   case it makes a difference in what I do next!) Thanks so much! Morgan

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 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/znuffn/)
 * (@znuffn)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-59/#post-4839052)
 * Did you already create a database on your webserver?
 * I’ll try to walk you through.
 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-59/#post-4839064)
 * These would be very helpful resources to read:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start](http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress)

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## Tags

 * [apache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/apache/)
 * [Getting Started](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/getting-started/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [shell](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shell/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-59/#post-4839064)
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