What is WordPress ?

The WordPress is an online software tool Open-Source platform for you to create your own websites, Themes, Plugins and more.

What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

The WordPress is a (CMS) content management system. it is a free tool or platform that helps you create, edit, and manage your own website or blog without needing to learn code. WordPress is open-source platform that means it is free software that anyone can download and use.

WP Themes and Plugins

There are two important things in wordpress when you start building your WordPress site themes and plugins. WordPress allows you to install plugins to add extra functionality to your website.

What is a theme & Installing a theme

A theme is a website template with a certain layout and design. To install a new theme, make your way to Appearance, click on Themes, and select Add New. Once you find the theme you are looking for, click on Install. And once installed, don’t forget to click on Activate.

If you have a theme in the form of a zip file, you can install it manually. Click on Add new, and then at the top, select Upload theme. Then, you can upload it from your computer.

Installing a Plugin

To add a plugin, navigate to Plugins in the WordPress dashboard and select Add New. Click Install then activate the plugin and your plugin will activated.

How to Download WordPress?

Follow the steps below

Step No.1 first of all Go to WordPress official website the you will see the interface like this in below picture.

Now you can see Get WordPress button click on it.

Step No.2 Then you will redirected to another wordpress page called download.

You will see page like this then click the download wordpress button for the latest version of wordpress.

How to create a new wordpress account?

Okay, If you want to create a new wordpress account follow the steps below.

Step No.1 visit wordpress website home page.

You can see the register page, now fill out with your details enter username and email tick the checkbox and hit the create account then you will redirected to create your password page, create a strong password then your account will be created then you can login. If you already have an account then do not create a new account you should login only.

How to Log In WordPress?

Step No.2 Enter your credentials means your username or email address to login to your account.

How to Install WordPress Locally In Your PC Hard Drive?

To Installing WordPress locally means running it is on your own computer instead of a live hosting server. But there are some requirements to install wordpress.

Requirements for install the setup

• You need some tools before starting the installing setup. There is a all in one package solution tool called xampp software it is a server.

• A local server – Apache
• PHP
• MySQL – database

Step No.1 Download and Install XAMPP

• Download XAMPP open your browser and Go to the official website apachefriends then click the download and choose the version for your operating system Windows, macOS, Linux, Select a PHP version PHP 8.0x is recommended.

Install XAMPP

1. Run the installer then Click Next and Select components
2. Apache
3. MySQL
4. PHP – phpMyAdmin after that Choose installation location Default is C:\xampp on Windows then click Next Install and Finish installation

Step No.2 Start Apache and MySQL

• Open XAMPP Control Panel, Click Start next to
  • Apache
  • MySQL
• If both turn green, your local server is running successfully, Test Your Server and Open a browser then Go to the localhost/ If you see the XAMPP dashboard, it is working correctly.

Step NO.3 Download WordPress

We have discussed that how to download the wordpress tool above in the blog.

• Go to the official WordPress website and click download WordPress, You will get a ZIP file then Extract the ZIP file where you want to extract all files.

Step No.4 Move WordPress to the XAMPP Folder

• Go to your XAMPP installation folder in drive location C:\xampp\htdocs.

Step No.5 Create a Database for WordPress

• The Database is used to store your all media files and information in the format of tables.

Open phpMyAdmin

• Open your browser and goto localhost/phpmyadmin

Create Database

• Click Databases and Enter database name called wordpress then Click to Create it.

Step No.6 Configure WordPress & Open WordPress Installer

• Open the browser then Go to localhost/wordpress and Choose Language Select your preferred language English or another one then Click Continue to start.

Step No.7 Enter WordPress Database Details

Field	Value
Database Name	wordpress
Username	root
Password	leave it empty
Database Host	localhost
Table Prefix	wp_

• Click Submit Run the installation

Step No.8 WordPress Site Setup

• Now fill in site information and details

Required Details

• Site Title Your website name and Username Admin login name, Password Strong password your security phrase and Email that is your Admin email for logging.
• Please do not check the checkbox Discourage search engines if you checked this by mistake your site will not visible to any search engine and Click Install WordPress

Step No.9 Login to WordPress Dashboard

After installation is complete then Click Log In, Go to: localhost/wordpress/wp-admin

• Enter your username & password that you entered before

Now you can customize your website design and layout, colors and more things as you want to see it. There is not only way to Install wordpress locally into your personal computer, You can also install wordpress with live server, If you have bought any web hosting service from any hosting service providers.

If you do not know or not familiar about web hosting service then, I will recommend some web hosting providers, the first is hostinger and you can search more from google for better results and which gives you cheap costs plans and easy to use and simple user interface to understand.

If you want to make your website live on the internet and public can access and visit your site you should buy your own domain name to live your site world wide. And If you do not know how to buy a domain name and point a domain to wordpress website you can search on google you will get different guide blogs results on the web. In future, I will write and publish these two blogs posts with detailed and step by step guidance for you to understand it.

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