Hi Guys, I'm Anuj Today, I'll be showing you how you can install WordPress, Locally on your computer Now, Why would you want to Install WordPress locally? Normally, if want to build a WordPress site, you would need to buy domain and hosting, and then launch your live website But if you don't want to launch a website yet, and just want to try and test WordPress , you can do that by reading this article Okay!
So, when you install WordPress locally all your website's files will be stored on your computer, and this means only you will be able to access your website Now, this is a great way for you to learn making your website for free of cost And, once you've build your WordPress site locally, you can then move it to a live website I'll show you, how you can do that at the later part of this article So keep reading And now, let's install WordPress locally!
Install WordPress
Okay! It is going to be totally free and we're going to do it in just 2 simple steps!
First, we're going to download a software called 'Bitnami WordPress' Now, this is the software which is going to allow us to run WordPress on our computer So to download it, let's go to our browser And, then search for 'Bitnami WordPress' and press enter Now, click the first link And then download Bitnami, by clicking here And clicking this link Okay! So the Bitnami software is downloaded!
Now, let's go to step 2, which is to install this software So let's open the file we've downloaded And, click 'Ok' Now keep clicking 'next' till you reach this page Okay! So this is the page,where we need to enter the login details of our local WordPress site So enter your name email address and then the username and the password for WordPress make sure you remember these details as you'll be needing this to login into your local WordPress site.
WordPress Tutorial for Beginners
Once you're done, keep clicking next And WordPress will be installed Now let's click finish! And it will take you to this page So, WordPress is now installed on our computer Now to access your site, you just have to click 'access WordPress ' So let's click that And as you can see, our WordPress site is now running on our PC! Okay! You can access your site anytime by going to "localhost/wordpress" on your browser.
Now if you want to login to WordPress, you just add "/login" And, it will take you to the login page of WordPress You can now login, by entering the details that you gave during the installation So, once you've logged in, you can start building your website So this is how you can Install WordPress locally on your PC and start building your website Once you've completed building your website you can then move it to a live website, by reading this post, here! We show you how you can move from local host to web host So that's it!
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