WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.
Today we will learn together, how to install the WordPress locally in Windows. For the installation of the WordPress, we have to install the WAMP Server in our local laptop/computer. If you have not installed yet the WAMP Server, read the following useful WAMP Server installation tutorials.
I hope you have installed successfully the WAMP Server in your system/laptop. Lets start WordPress installation,
I have installed wordpress 3.2.1 on Windows 7, and same installation steps are used for Windows XP.
Step 1
In first step, open the WampServer. In Windows, the WAMP Server icon will now appear in your taskbar.
WAMP Server icon
Step 2
Click on WAMP Server icon, a menu bar will appear on your screen. Now click on localhost option.
Localhost
Step 3
Click on localhost, new page open in your current browser. Now click on phpMyAdmin option.
phpMyAdmin
Step 4
When you click on phpMyAdmin option, you will go to phpMyAdmin page. Where you can create your database name.
- Write new Database name
- Click on Create button
My Database name is tutorialchip, but you set your database name as you like.
Type Your Database Name
After this procedure you will successfully create a new database.
Create A New Database
Step 5
Now we will download the latest version of the WordPress in our local laptop/machine. Latest version of the WordPress 3.2.1 can be found for download at official web page of WordPress.
Click on Download WordPress 3.2.1 button.
Wordpress Official Web Site Page
When you click on this button, then a new WordPress 3.2.1 download page will open.
Wordpress 3.2.1
Step 6
You can easily download WordPress 3.2.1 just one click on download button. After click on this button you will notice that wordpress is starting to download.
Save The WordPress 3.2.1
Downloading of WordPress 3.2.1 is complete now, and you will find zip file of WordPress 3.2.1 in your download location/folder.
Wordpress 3.2.1 Downloading Complete
Extract the WordPress Zip file.
Extract The WordPress Zip File
Step 7
Unzipped WordPress folder.
Copy The WordPress Folder
Now open the the WAMP folder which is in drive D, Because i have installed the WAMP Server in drive D.
WAMP Server Instalation
When you opened this wamp folder, you will see www folder.
www Folder
Open this www folder and paste the wordpress folder in it and rename this folder with your project name (domain name). My project name is tutorialchip, therefore I rename it with tutorialchip.
Rename WordPress Folder with Tutorialchip
Now open this folder (tutorialchip) and you will find configuration file wp-config-sample.php in it.
WP Config Sample File
Step 8
Rename this file with wp-confing.php . Just eliminate the sample word.
WP Confing
Step 9
Open this wp-confing.php file in Notepad or Dreamweaver for Database setting. I opened this file in Dreamweaver.
Open wp-confing.php File in Dreamweaver
Step 10
Write down Database Name, Database User Name and Database Password. We set Database Name tutorialchip as we create above and Database User root and Database Password will leave blank.
Database Information Settings
Step 11
Open the selected link in browser (https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/) for Secret Key.
Copy The Link
You will find the Random Secret Key as below,
Open Link in Browser For Secret Key
Step 12
Now Copy this Secret Key Code and Replace with the existing code as below,
Paste Links in Dreamweaver
Finally you set the Secret Key,
New Random Secret Key
Step 13
Now go to taskbar and click on WAMP Server icon, a menu bar will appear on your screen. Now you click on again Localhost option.
Localhost
After click on Localhost option, a new page opened in your browser. Now you see bottom of this page and click on your project name. I will click on tutorialchip because my project name is also tutorialchip.
Click on Database Name
Step 14
When you click on your project name folder, a new page opened and fill those blank fiels with,
- Site Title: Tutorialchip (Your website title)
- User Name: Akbar (My name is Akbar therefore I wrote Akbar in user name box. You can type your name.)
- Password: Type password as you like
- Your-Email: Type your e-mail address.
Now click Install WordPress button.
Information Needed
Congratulation, WordPress 3.2.1 is successfully installed. Now click on Log In button.
Wordpress 3.2.1 is Successfully Instal
Step 15
When you click on log in button, new page opened, enter your User Name and Password as set previous. Click on login button.
Wordpress
When you click login button, your WordPress Admin Page will opened in new browser tab.
You can open your project admin page directly in your browser as,
http://localhost/yourprojectname/wp-admin/
My project name is tutorialchip, so my link will be,
http://localhost/tutorialchip/wp-admin/
Wordpress Admin Page
You can directly open your project or domain home page in browser as,
http://localhost/yourprojectname/
My project name is tutorialchip, so my link will be,
http://localhost/tutorialchip/
