# w 🔥 ### WordBox—A truly modern development environment for WordPress and PHP > WordBox is a portmanteau of WordPress and Sandbox. Although the name implies WordPress, you can really put in any PHP script using WordBox just as easily. WordBox is a truly modern WordPress site development (and deployment) environment. Bring the power of Node.JS to your WordPress environment! ### Running the server Steps 1-3 will have an automated option later. 1. Download php zip from https://php.net and place the extracted files under `/php`. 2. Download WordPress from https://wordpress.org and place the extracted files under `/public`. 3. [Optional / Haven't tested] If you're on Linux, edit the config file to point to your `php-cgi` bin file. 4. Run `npm install` to install dependencies (Express). 5. Run `node .` to start the server. ### Versioning Thanks to @wbhob for donating the npm `w` package to me. Because npm versions are immutable, our public version number starts directly to `v.1.1.0`. The project should be considered unstable until `v.2.0.0` which will be WordBox's first stable release version.