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The document provides instructions on how to install WordPress locally using XAMPP. It details downloading and extracting WordPress, creating a database in PHPMyAdmin, and completing the WordPress installation wizard to set up a local WordPress site.

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How To Create A Local WordPress

The document provides instructions on how to install WordPress locally using XAMPP. It details downloading and extracting WordPress, creating a database in PHPMyAdmin, and completing the WordPress installation wizard to set up a local WordPress site.

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How to Create a Local WordPress

Site Using XAMPP

Let me introduce myself, my name is Kevin Dwi Ananta from class 12 RPL B.

Do you want to create a local WordPress site on your computer using XAMPP?

Installing WordPress on your computer helps you try out WordPress, test themes and plugins,
and learn WordPress development.

In this video, we will show you how to easily create a local WordPress site using XAMPP.

Follow the step-by-step instructions in our guide on how to start a WordPress blog when you are
ready to create a live website.

1. First step you need to run xampp in your computer.

First, open the XAMPP app, you can run Apache web server as your local server and
MySQL as your database server. Go ahead and click on the ‘Start’ button next to run
Apache and MySQL.

2. the second step is Download and installing Wordpress

 You will need to download WordPress. Visit the WordPress.org website and click
on the ‘Download WordPress’ button.
 After downloading WordPress, you need to extract the zip file, and you will see
a wordpress folder.
 You need to copy this folder. Next, head over to your XAMPP installation folder.
 Paste the wordpress folder you copied earlier inside the ‘htdocs’ folder.
 Next, you need to open your favorite web browser.
 You can enter the following URL into your browser’s address bar:
 This will load the WordPress installation wizard, and you’ll be asked to
select a language. After selecting a language, click on the ‘Continue’
button.
 On the next screen, you will see the WordPress welcome screen.
 It includes a notice that WordPress needs a database name, database
username, password, and host information.
 Let’s create a database for your WordPress site.
 You’ll need to open a new browser tab and
visit https://localhost/phpmyadmin/.
 You need to click on ‘Databases’ and provide a name for your new
database. After that, click on the ‘Create’ button to continue.
 Now that you have created a database, you can use it for your WordPress
site.
 Switch back to the /localhost/website1/ browser tab and click on the ‘Let’s Go’
button.
 On the next screen, you will be asked to provide your WordPress database
information.
 Enter the database name you created earlier. Your username is ‘root’, and you
should leave the password field blank. For the database host field, you need to use
localhost.
 Once you are done, click on the ‘Submit’ button to continue.
 In the next step, WordPress will ask you to provide information about your
website. First, enter the title you want to use for this site.
 After that, you need to enter a username, password, and email address for your
admin account.
 Once you have filled in all the information, click on the ‘Install WordPress’
button to continue.
 You can log in to your website by going to login admin
 page and using the username and password that you entered during
installation.
 In the next step you can install plugin and themes wordpress in the
dashboard admin site
 First we will install and activate the WordPress theme
 Second, we will install and activate the WordPress plugin
 The next step we will create a website page first
 After creating a website page, next we will import the website page design
that I created previously
 and my tutorial video has finished here, thank you very much for watching
my video, see you soon

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