Today, I am writing about how you can install WordPress on your PC. Many bloggers need to test out plugins and themes before they install them on their blogs. It is always good to try out plugin on test blog before installing it on your live site. Installing WordPress on computer is not difficult anymore. All you have to do is to download and install Xampp.
Why we should install WordPress on Computer?
- You can check out every plugin or theme in action before installing it on your live blog.
- Fast Surfing as not internet connectivity is required.
Here is the simple 8 steps procedure to Install WordPress Offline on your computer:
In order to run WordPress, you need an Apache Server and MySQL database(PhpMyAdmin) installed on your system. You don't need to download and install one by one. They all comes with Xampp.
1) Download Xampp Lite from the official website Apachefriends.org - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646
2) Install Xampp Lite with Apache and MySQL services.
3) After the installation, run Xampp Control panel and start Apache and MySQL services as indicated in the image below.
4) We need to configure MySQL Databases, Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/security/index.php then select the language of your choice and change MySQL database passoword (http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php).
In this tutorial I have given the password as test. (Password is case-sensitive)
5) Now we have to create MySQL Database for your Wordpress install.
To do this Go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, Login using root as username and test as password, or the password which you gave in the previous step.
Create a new database through the PhpMyAdmin interface. Give a name for your database and don’t change any other setting (refer the Image below).
6) Now, download the latest version of Wordpress from http://www.wordpress.org
After the download, go to the folder where you installed Xampp, there you will find a folder by name htdocs, open it and extract the latest version of Wordpress there.
7) Open the Wordpress folder (the one which you extracted in the above step), you will find a file by name wp-config-sample.php, open the file with wordpad and edit the data as per the image.
8)Now go to http://localhost/wordpress and install wordpress!!
If you find any errors while installing WordPress offline please post them as comments. Happy Testing :)