Install WordPress Locally

You can install WordPress locally on your computer if you're traveling or planning to be offline and you still want to work with WordPress. Installing WordPress locally involves about 6 steps:

1. Download wampserver.
2. Create a database in phpmyadmin.
3. Add a user with privileges to the database.
4. Download WordPress and extract to a folder in the www directory.
5. Customize the wp-config-sample.php file.
6. Run the WordPress install script.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• installation
• wordpress
• local
• wampserver
• offline

[MrBrazenhusseys]

Why would you do this instead of just using Hostgator and Fantastico, etc.? Seems much too complicated. What's the advantage? Having 75 websites on various hosts, it's taken me 5 minutes from choosing a domain name to start configuring WP...your way seems much too complicated.

[tomjohnson1492]

@MrBrazenhusseys It is easier to install wordpress on a web host. But what if you want to work offline, or what if you have slow bandwidth. This tutorial explains how to install a server on your own computer and then install WordPress on that server. This is important in different scenarios (not the most common one), but for example if you're training people on wordpress and they don't have wireless, or if you're traveling in a car and you want to code your theme in the middle of iowa, etc.,...

[MrBrazenhusseys]

BTW, you should link to your blog in your description in YouTube...

[MrBrazenhusseys]

OK...you answered me at the end of the video. "Great for if you're designing a theme," etc. I'd still much rather use Fantastico. In one click, I'm done. :)

[ChantalMatar]

EXCELLENT tutorial.

Thank you so much Tom. You made this whole process very easy to follow, and more importantly, I have understood each step.

[garvaluk]

Hi Tom,

Congratulations, this is not just a tutorial, it is a MASTERCLASS on how to do a tutorial. I didn't catch the name of your website, but after a quick search I found it. I've already subscribed to it, and look forward to your posts.

[asifmanzoorawan]

thnks

[geekprojects]

but my web site have this name  ((LOCALHOST/SDFWFG/)) THAT NOT GOOD

[Resmyrranda]

THANK you, you made it perfectly simple as I followed along step by step:)