diff --git a/roles/wordpress/tasks/install.yml b/roles/wordpress/tasks/install.yml
index f0af250be..521c133c5 100644
--- a/roles/wordpress/tasks/install.yml
+++ b/roles/wordpress/tasks/install.yml
@@ -39,10 +39,16 @@
 #  when: php_version is version('8.0', '<')
 
 - name: Download {{ wordpress_download_base_url }}/{{ wordpress_src }} to {{ downloads_dir }}
-  get_url:
-    url: "{{ wordpress_download_base_url }}/{{ wordpress_src }}"
-    dest: "{{ downloads_dir }}"
-    timeout: "{{ download_timeout }}"
+  command: wget {{ wordpress_download_base_url }}/{{ wordpress_src }} -P {{ downloads_dir }}
+  # 2022-05-04: Ansible approach below (get_url) fails with HTTP Error 429
+  # (Too Many Requests) b/c Ansible's User-Agent string?  Affecting 1 user in
+  # England and another user in Scotland, but not affecting many other
+  # countries/ISP's apparently?  WordPress must have recently changed their
+  # hosting arrangements for https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
+  # get_url:
+  #   url: "{{ wordpress_download_base_url }}/{{ wordpress_src }}"
+  #   dest: "{{ downloads_dir }}"
+  #   timeout: "{{ download_timeout }}"
   register: wp_download_output
 
 - name: Symlink {{ downloads_dir }}/wordpress.tar.gz -> {{ wp_download_output.dest }}