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WordPress

Nick Bowett
Nick Bowett
2,970 Points
Posted by Nick Bowett
Nick Bowett
2,970 Points

Here they only seem to show how to acquire wordpress locally using a MAC. I have a PC. How does process differ?

I have got XXAMP on my machine. How do I progress?

2 Answers

Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
17,230 Points
Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
17,230 Points

Hi Nick,

There are various ways on how to do this and Team Treehouse has several different videos on how to do this.

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-computer

Personally, I am a fan of Desktop Server.

csj
csj
12,678 Points
csj
csj
12,678 Points

MAMP is pretty easy, same process on both systems.

  1. Download and install the app.
  2. Open settings and define your working directory ("my_sites") and choose the PHP version etc.
  3. Open localhost/MAMP in your browser and choose mySQL, login (details are listed on MAMP page) and create a new database for your WordPress install. Something like "mysite_db".
  4. Download WordPress and unzip it in your sites folders and rename it to whatever you want, like "mysite".
  5. Then replace MAMP in with "mysite" in the URL... localhost/mysite.
  6. A guided WordPress installation will appear, just follow that and use your database you just created when asked.

And if you ever want to add more sites or WordPress installs. You just repeat the steps from 3. or 4. depending on if you want a new database for it or not.

Hope it helps.