The official download link of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/web/downloads/platform.aspx is broken for a few days. If you search via google or Bing, you might essentially get a broken link like me.
Fortunately Microsoft IIS site has an alternate download link : https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-platform-installer
WordPress is one of most popular blog applications. This application is very easy to use however setup a local environment for theme or plugin development on windows system is not that easy for bloggers. In this post, I will walk thru you how to setup local WordPress environment using Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 with just a few clicks. (I am using 64bit Windows 7 in this tutorial but same steps work windows server 2008 as well)