Installed Wordpress on a Mac using MAMP

In this tutorial Victoria demonstrates how to install Wordpress on your local host using the standard version of MAMP.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• MAMP
• Wordpress
• Install
• Localhost
• mac
• osx
• CMS
• content management system
• Mysql
• php

[TheWebsonic]

Thanks very much Toria! Worked a treat :)

Really clear and well explained tut. Do you have any more Wordpress vids on the way?

Kind regards

Rob

[creativetoria]

@TheWebsonic Hey Rob, thanks for the comment. I've created a whole series of wordpress tutorials, which I'm going to upload shortly. If there is anything specific you would like me to cover, just let me know and I'll create a tutorial for that. Love and Blessings, Toria

[TheWebsonic]

@creativetoria Hi Toria, sorry for the delay! Hope your well. I've been working on my local site the last month and it's just about ready to go live. It's great to hear you have more Wordpress vids on the way, looking forward to them! I was hoping you might have a tut on moving the site developed in MAMP, onto a live server/host. Could link really nice with this vid as well.

Kind regards

Rob

[creativetoria]

@TheWebsonic Thanks, yes, i'll upload that today. I have a site I was working on so I can use it as an example. :-) I'll message you when it goes live.

[Freakshow980]

Victoria, what a great tutorial! Thank you so much! I do have one question. I set this up as per your instructions and got the Wordpress login page. I logged in and that took me to my dashboard. All good. Question is, now that I'm returning to work on the files again, I type localhost:8888 in the address field of my browser and it takes me directly to my site files, not to the login page, so I no longer seem to have access to the dashboard. How do I access the dashboard?

[creativetoria]

@Freakshow980 Hi, You access the dashboard by typing in the url_of_wordpress/wp-admin

I hope this makes sense,

Toria

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[ThePeaGreenBoat]

Great video Victoria. It would also be really useful if you made a video on how to upload a Wordpress site from your local server to a web host? Any chance?

[george7533]

Holy crap! This video is perfect!! It covered everything that anyone should need barring some unique problem! This helped me immensely and I thank you!

[TommerHaugland]

Thanks! A very helpful and easy way to install Wordpress! I will recommend this!

[TrueCrimesOnline]

video was super helpful for me thank you

[chadlawsonpiano]

a WONDERFUL video (after going through what seems hundreds). any chance you would continue the tutorials using Dreamweaver? Thanks again!

[patricklespinasse]

hi can you show me how to install several local sites on MAMP. Do I create a new database for each wordpress site or is there a better way to do it? thanks

liked your tutorial by the way. clear even though now outdated with recent wordpress updates

[kimacable]

Great video Victoria. One question. You copied wordpress files manually to fitness.com folder in MAMP. What does install.php do then?

[intrnationldarkskies]

great tutorial. clear, concise, easy to follow, thank you

[Strikezone100]

Victoria, excellent tutorial. Very clear. You really have a knack at this sort of thing. Thank you.

[Design93Tampa]

You are a great teacher! Thank you!