Wordpress Installation

Step 1:

Download the WordPress latest version in your local computer from http://wordpress.org/, after that you will get the following page like this as shown below :

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You just click this Button for downloading the wordPress.

Note: In order to run WordPress you need to install xampp software from https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html and after installing xampp open your browser and just type localhost/phpmyadmin

Step 2: Database Creation

Create the database (e.g. Database Name as “Wikitechy”)

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Type the Database name here.
You just click this create button for Create the database.

Step 3: WordPress Installation

Before start’s the installation you must extract the downloaded wordpress folder.

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Right click on the downloaded folder.
And then you select the “Extract Here” option.

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After that you must move it by copying the extracted folder to the path C:\xampp\htdocs\folder name.
Then rename that folder name as “wikitechy” which is shown in the above figure.

Step 4:

Now open the browser and type localhost/<Your WordPress folder>(for e.g. since we have created the folder name as wikitechy as it has to be given as localhost/wikitechy) in the address bar after that the following page will appear in this way as shown below.

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Select your language for the WordPress, generally we choose “English(United States)”.
Click on Continue to proceed installation. After that you receive the following window as shown below :

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Click this “Let’s go” button to proceed the installation.

Step 6:

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Here give the database name you already created in “localhost/php myadmin”(e.g. We have already created the database “wickitechy” in previous step).
Enter the database Username as “root” which is predefined.
Enter Your Database Password.
Enter Your database host name as localhost which will access your localhost or server.
Here you mention your Table Prefix as wp_
Click this “Submit” button to submit all the entered details. After that following window will appear as shown below :

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Click here to proceed installation.

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Enter Your Site Title here(Here we have given Site Title as “wikitechy”).
Enter the Username as “admin”.
Enter Your Password (You must remember the password forever).
Confirm Your Password.
Enter Your Email-address
Finally Click the “Install WordPress" Button. That’s it WordPress has been successfully installed in your local system by showing the window screen as shown below.

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After clicking the login button the following word press login page will appear.

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Enter Your Site Title here(Here we have given Site Title as “wikitechy”).
Enter the Username as “admin”.
Enter Your Password (You must remember the password forever).
Confirm Your Password.
Enter Your Email-address
Finally Click the “Install WordPress" Button. That’s it WordPress has been successfully installed in your local system by showing the window screen as shown below.

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After clicking the login button the following word press login page will appear.

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Enter the Username as admin.
Enter the Password which you have given before.
Click Login button for Logging in to your WordPress.

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Wordpress has been successfully installed. We can create our own websites, blogs.

Wordpress Installation