Easy way to install WordPress Using WAMP on Your PC

Do you want to know how to install WordPress Using WAMP on your computer?

To install WordPress, there are several methods, such as installing via hosting, XAMPP, and more. In this article, we’ll show you how to set up WordPress with WAMP, which is quite handy and easy to set up.

What is WAMP? Is it free to use WAMP Server?

WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It is a web development platform on Windows that allows you to create and manage the server and database of the web application.

Yes, WAMP is totally free to use and is available on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

It is mainly used by PHP developers to develop their projects on a local Windows system.

Some features of using WAMP:

• Allowed to access the logs file and set files
• Properly manage the server settings
• Manage your Apache, MySQL and MariaDB services
• Allow to create an alias and use VirtualHosts as hosters

Download and set up WAMP on a Windows PC

The first thing to do to install WAMP is to download it on your PC and set up WordPress. Simply go to download WAMP software and click “Start using WampServer.”

You can see the 64-bit and 32-bit options; you can choose anyone according to your PC’s operating system.

Once downloaded, click the WAMP execution file to run the installation. Follow the instructions carefully during the installation process. After a while, your installation is complete. Now you can officially activate the WAMP Server.

If you don’t have any profound idea about what you’re doing during the installation, please check their documentation or other guides on the Internet. And make sure to retain to default values and options given during the running of the execution file.

Create a new database using PhpMyAdmin

To start WAMP and create the database via PhpMyAdmin, click on the WampServer icon. At the bottom of the taskbar, you’ll see the green “W” icon. Click the left button and go to PhpMyAdmin to set up the database for WordPress.

You’ll turn to the PhpMyAdmin login page. Add the ‘username: root‘ and keep the password blank as the default. Click on the Go button.

After it logs in, click on the databases and create your database name for WordPress, for example: WP_test. Next, click on the Create button.

Download and Install WordPress or create a WordPress site locally on your PC?

If you’re looking to download WordPress, then head to WordPress.org and click on Get WordPress. It will take you to the download page. Click on the Download button, and then it will be downloaded as a .zip file.

You need to extract the zip file, move or copy the WordPress folder into the ‘C:\wamp64\www‘ folder and paste it. You can change the name of the folder to anything you want, which will be the URL, like this: ‘http://localhost/folder-name‘. In our case, it will be ‘http://localhost/wordpress‘.

Next, to configure the WordPress installation, you can follow the below steps:

• Enter http://localhost/wordpress in the address bar of a web browser.

• First, you have to choose the language, then click on Create a Configuration File.
• Next, click on the “Let’s go” button.
• Now, you need to fill in the database name, username, password, host, and table prefix like this:

Database name: wp_test (Set the created database name)

Username: root (MYSQL default username and password)

Password: (keep it blank)

Database Host: localhost

Table Prefix: wp_

• At last, click on the submit button.

If you get a successful message, then WordPress is connected to your “wp_test” database. Move forward and click on “Run the Installation”.

On the next page, you’ll be asked to add your site title, username, password, and e-mail. Once you have completed filling out the required box, click on the “Install WordPress” button.

Finally, you’re successful in installing WordPress. Now, you can proceed by clicking the log in button.

In this way, you can easily and quickly set up WordPress or build a Local WordPress site with WAMP.

Wrapping Up

To wrap it all up, I hope you’ve learned to install WordPress using WAMP. Particularly, WAMP is developed for the Windows computer. So, make sure before installing WAMP on your PC.

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