What is WordPress?
WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web blog category and allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end and components. Each of these sections contain related topics to becoming the WordPress developer.
If you are searching for which is the best blogging website, then you can check this WordPress vs. Blogger advantages and disadvantages.
For You
This article has been ready for those who have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and has an urge to develop websites. After reading this, you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in developing WordPress alone.Before you start reading this, we are assuming that you are already aware about the basics of markup and cascading styles. If you are not aware of these concepts, then we suggest you go through our short tutorial on HTML basics and CSS (source w3schools.com).
Get Started: WordPress Installation
System Requirements for WordPress
Step 2: Open your browser and navigate to your WordPress file path, then you will get the first screen of the WordPress installer as shown in the following screen. In our case, the path is localhost/< your_folder >.
Select your language for the WordPress and click on Continue.
Step 3: In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before proceeding with WordPress installation.
Step 5: WordPress will check the database setting and gives you the confirmation button
Click on Run the installation
Step 6: Enter information for the Super Admin credentials.
It contains the following fields:
- Web Server
- WAMP (Windows) - recommended, download wamp server
- LAMP (Linux) - download lamp
- XAMP (Multi-platform) - suggested download xampp
- MAMP (Macintosh) - visit Mamp info site
- Database − MySQL 5.0 +
- Browser Support − All
- PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.2+
WordPress: Download
Official link https://wordpress.org/download/, you will redirect to this WP site.
Then, you can continue with the installation process as discussed further.
Step 1: Extract the downloaded WordPress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost.
WordPress: Create Database
WordPress requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database with user/password (for example, user as "root" and password as "root" or else you can set as per your convenience).Then, you can continue with the installation process as discussed further.
WordPress: Configuration
The basic setup of WordPress into your computer local environment. The following steps describe how to configure and install WordPress locally on your PC.Step 1: Extract the downloaded WordPress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost.
Step 2: Open your browser and navigate to your WordPress file path, then you will get the first screen of the WordPress installer as shown in the following screen. In our case, the path is localhost/< your_folder >.
Select your language for the WordPress and click on Continue.
Step 3: In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before proceeding with WordPress installation.
WordPress: Installations
Step 4: Enter the information about the MySQL database for your website credentials.- Database Name
Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for WordPress. - Username
Enter the user name of your MySQL database. - Password
Enter the password which you had set for MySQL database. - Database Host
Write the host name, by default it will be localhost. - Table Prefix
It is used to add prefix in the database tables, which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. It takes the default value.
Step 5: WordPress will check the database setting and gives you the confirmation button
Click on Run the installation
Step 6: Enter information for the Super Admin credentials.
It contains the following fields:
- Site Title
Enter the name of the site which you are going to create on WordPress. - Username
Enter the username as per your choice while logging in the WordPress. - Password verify
Enter password two times to protect your site. - Your E-mail
Enter your e-mail address, which helps to recover the password or any update.
After inputting all the information below, click the Installation button.
You can review your username and password detail sent to your email.
Click on Log In button.