Creating a blog can seem like an intimidating prospect, particularly if it’s first time. Fortunately, if we have chosen WordPress as our platform, we are off to a great start. WordPress makes getting our blog off the ground a relatively simple task, and provides plenty of useful tools to help along the way.
In this article, we’ll go through the process of running the WordPress blog in the local system with few simple steps.
1. We will download WordPress
2. We will install XAMPP
3. We will run WordPress in our local environment
4.We will choose theme
5. We will the see the ways in which we can make changes to the code
1. Download WordPress by going to https://wordpress.org/download
2.Download XAMPP by going to https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
3.Install XAMPP and then open it. Start MySQL and Apache
4. Open xampp in C drive
5. Go to htdocs
6.Copy the downloaded WordPress zip folder inside htdocs and compress it
7.Change the name to any folder you want. I put it smritiworld
8.Now open http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
9 Select new-> type database name -> create
10. Open http://localhost/smritiworld-> Choose language
11. We need database name before getting started
12. Put database name,username,host
13. Run the installation
14.Complete the WordPress installation process by putting sitename, username,password, email
15. You will see notification that WordPress has been installed
16. Login to WordPress
17. Go to http://localhost/smritiworld/wp-admin/ Hurry it is ready to use !
18. For selecting a theme, select appearances
19.Select the theme and click on add new
20.Select install for installing a particular theme
21.Select activate for activating the theme
22. Go to http://localhost/smritiworld/- to check the theme – your theme is running!
23. To add any post to the blog, select any post
24 To make changes to the code, go to appearance –> Select editor
25. You can make changes inside smritiworld folder also
Enjoy the WordPress learning journey!
