Learning WordPress is fun. Anyone with the wish to try creating a site would surely be tempted to its ease of use. Not just you, millions of people around the world depend on WordPress for their websites. That constitutes more than 43% of the total websites (1) live at this moment. I am sure you are geared up to try WordPress more passionately than ever before. Without installing WordPress on your local computer, it is hardly possible. With that in mind, in this article, we will tell you how to install WordPress on localhost.

How to Install WordPress locally on Your Computer

Installing WordPress on localhost is quite easy. You just have to follow some easy steps. You can not install WordPress on your local computer directly. You have to create an environment then install WordPress on localhost. Initially, it is about just 3 major tasks. Such as:

• Create an environment
• Download WordPress from its website
• Install WordPress on localhost

These 3 major tasks can be completed through some easy steps. Follow the following steps without skipping any of them to install WordPress on your computer successfully.

Step 1. Download a Local Server Software

We need a local server software to create a localhost environment and install WordPress on localhost. In this tutorial, We are using MAMP for that (for its ease of uses). MAMP is a cross-platform web server solution stack package. Since WordPress is written in PHP language it requires a platform to run. MAMP is the way to do this. You can use the development environment of your choice according to your OS (whether it is Windows, MacOS or Linux).

Download MAMP from their official website.

The reason I am recommending MAMP is it works on both Mac and Windows operating systems. I found MAMP much more user-friendly than any other local server environment. If you have Linux running on your machine you need XAMPP. Check this link to know how to download and use XAMPP for this purpose.

Step 2. Install MAMP Server

Click on the downloaded MAMP and MAMP Pro package file to run the installer (both come in a single package by default). Click on the “Continue” on some subsequent popups until the “Install” option comes.

Click on “Install” upon agreeing to their terms of software license.

Step 3. Run MAMP on Your Computer

Once you have installed MAMP successfully, run MAMP on your computer and click on “Start Servers“.

After starting the servers, the system will take you to a success page in your default browser displaying some information.

Now your MAMP is ready to work.

Step 4. Create a Database

Your WordPress site needs a database to save its data on. Go to localhost/phpmyadmin on your browser. Click on “New” and give it a name then click on “Create” to finish the process.

Have the “Database Name” in mind as you need to use it in the future.

Step 5. Download WordPress

To install WordPress on localhost you need to download WordPress from the official website. Unzip the downloaded zip file.

Step 6. Put WordPress in MAMP’s htdocs

Now go to the MAMP directory in your computer’s system drive. Open “htdocs” folder (found inside the MAMP directory) and paste unpacked WordPress folder in there.

Step 7. Install WordPress on Localhost

Type localhost/wordpress (name of your WordPress file in the htdocs) on your browser’s address bar and hit enter. Now perform a few more actions to complete the WordPress installation on localhost. Select language and click “Continue“.

Click on “Let’s go!” button on the following page.

Give all Required Information

This page requires “Database Name” (the database you’ve created earlier in Step 3). Username and Password both will be “root” as mentioned in the MAMP installation success page.

Hit the “Submit” button at the bottom and click “Run the installation” on the very next page.

Complete WordPress Installation with Admin Information

Give your site a title, username, password, and email address. Finally hit the “Install WordPress” button at the bottom.

You have successfully installed WordPress on your computer. Log into your locally hosted WordPress site now.

Another great alternative to MAMP is DevKinsta, Kinsta hosting’s a free local development tool. The key features of DevKinsta include one-click WordPress site creation with multisite and WP-CLI support and a modern stack powered by Nginx, MySQL, and the latest versions of PHP. It also ships with advanced database and email management tools as well as full integration with Kinsta’s hosting dashboard MyKinsta.
Download the latest version for macOS, Windows, or Ubuntu here.

If you have followed all the steps above, you stand no chance of facing any error along the way of WordPress installation on localhost. Now do whatever you want with your WordPress site on your computer. We come up with such essential tutorials on a regular basis. Keep visiting Themeum to get more. Good luck.

Sources:
1. 43% of the web uses WordPress.