How To Install WordPress Locally on your Computer.

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March 25, 2021

Published by support at March 25, 2021

In this article, I’m going to show you how to install WordPress so that you can start building your own website.

There are two ways to install WordPress

To install WordPress on localhost.

Installing WordPress on localhost is quite easy. You just have to follow some easy steps. You can not install WordPress on your local computer directly. You have to create an environment then install WordPress On LocalHost. Initially, it is about just 3 major tasks. Such as:

Create an environment
Download WordPress from its website
Install WordPress on localhost

These 3 major tasks can be completed through some easy steps. Follow the following steps without skipping any of them to install WordPress on your computer successfully.

Step 1. Download a Local Server Software

We need a local server software to create a localhost environment and install WordPress on localhost. In this tutorial, We are using MAMP for that (for its ease of uses). MAMP is a cross-platform web server solution stack package. Since WordPress is written in PHP language it requires a platform to run. MAMP is the way to do this. You can use the development environment of your choice according to your OS (whether it is Windows, MacOS or Linux).

Step 2: Install MAMP Server

Click on the downloaded MAMP and MAMP Pro package file to run the installer (both come in a single package by default). Click on the “Continue” on some subsequent popups until the “Install” option comes.

Click on “Install” upon agreeing to their terms of software license.

Step 3: Run MAMP on Your Computer

Once you have installed MAMP successfully, run MAMP on your computer and click on “Start Servers“.

After starting the servers, the system will take you to a success page in your default browser displaying some information.

Now your MAMP is ready to work.

Step 4: Create a Database

Your WordPress site needs a database to save its data on. Go to localhost/phpmyadmin on your browser. Click on “New” and give it a name then click on “Create” to finish the process.

Have the “Database Name” in mind as you need to use it in the future.

Step 5. Download WordPress

To install WordPress on localhost you need to download WordPress from the official website. Unzip the downloaded zip file.

Step 6: Put WordPress in MAMP’s htdocs

Now go to the MAMP directory in your computer’s system drive. Open “htdocs” folder (found inside the MAMP directory) and paste the unpacked WordPress folder in there.

Step 7: Install WordPress on Localhost

Type localhost/wordpress (name of your WordPress file in the htdocs) on your browser’s address bar and hit enter. Now perform a few more actions to complete the WordPress installation on localhost. Select language and click “Continue“.

Click on “Let’s go!” button on the following page.

Give all Required Information

This page requires “Database Name” (the database you’ve created earlier in Step 3). Username and Password both will be “root” as mentioned in the MAMP installation success page.