I think the author has been unlucky really. The installation documentation has good instructions on how to setup Wordpress. We use chassis (https://beta.chassi

I think the author has been unlucky really. The installation documentation has good instructions on how to setup Wordpress. We use chassis (https://beta.chassis.io https://beta.chassis.io) to run And develop it locally. If you’re looking to develop your own theme or plug-in it’s worth checking out. That said creating static sites is not a common use case so the author is finding out its not super easy. Prior to installation warnings are shown for out of date plugins, so she is unfortunate to have skipped them. Setup an author user then you don’t have to worry about the administrative screens that might be confusing. I’d suggest to give it another go as it’s worth being self hosted and being in control of your own setup, if you’re interested in learning about PHP and WordPress.