How to Install WordPress blog on your local computer

WordPress is an easy to install, highly customizable content management system, widely used by professionals for creating and managing blogs. As a WordPress user, you always need to edit and make changes to keep your WordPress blog live.

Before we proceed to the installation tutorials, lets look at the benefits of installing WordPress on your PC.

Why you need to Install WordPress locally ?

Setting up WordPress on your local computer help you to safely test drive any WordPress theme, view changes made during designing and customization., applying tweaks and for testing plug-ins before you make final changes on your actual blog online.

Setup WordPress on your Computer

For this, you basically need couple of services like PHP and MySQL on your Computer. But configuring these services is not easy until you are tech savvy or a Geek. There are two simple solutions to make the whole installation process easy for you.

1- Install WordPress on local computer using EasyPHP : EasyPHP provide quick-and-easy development of PHP and MySQL on a localhost.Watch the tutorial to know how to setup Apache server, MySQL for WordPress and then how to run WordPress in just a few minutes.

 

2. Install WordPress on local computer using Microsoft Web platform installer ( Web PI ) :

Microsoft Web Platform installer (or Web PI) is a free tool that provide you a wizard to install WordPress. Once you select the blog tab available on the left side, a list get displayed, scroll down to find WordPress in the list. Click on “install”, all the programs and tools needed by WordPress will be automatically added to the install list for installation.

After installation, wizard will ask you to fill specific information about your site.So,wizard can create a MySQL database for your WordPress blog. Now, you are just few steps away from the complete installation .

When everything is installed, just enter “http://localhots/wordpress/wp-login.php” in the address bar of your browser. Now, you only have to follow the instructions to configure and connect WordPress same as you watched in the video tutorial above and voila, you are done..

You can now apply tweaks as well as preview changes locally prior to making changes on your blog online.