So you downloaded WordPress and you are ready to get on the wonderful and exciting WP Train to development bliss. One thing you may notice is that if you simply upload the unzipped WordPress folder to your server, it really takes a long time (damn you WYSIWYG files!). This is because you are uploading each file separately. Your FTP client accesses, uploads, then closes a mini connection for each file which takes way to long. WordPress has a fairly small footprint (2.95MB zipped) but tons of individual files. So what do you do? Continue Reading →

