How To Install Wordpress Manually On Your Localhost

Wordpress is a  great tool for developing and designing blogs and websites. If you are new to Wordpress definitely you will need to have a good practice to learn it and understand the process of creating a website using wordpress. One way to install wordpress manually is to directly install on the server and the other way you can install on your local machine. Here i am going to tell you how you can install wordpress on xampp server locally. 

1. First you need to download the latest wordpress version, you can get it from here https://wordpress.org/ you will get the latest version in .zip format
2. now you need to download xampp server and install xampp on your computer you can download xampp from here https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
3. once the installation of xampp is complete, extract the wordpress into the htdocs folder inside your xampp folder i.e C:\xampp\htdocs
4. now open the wordpress folder inside your htdocs folder and open the file wp-config-sample.php, open this file in any text editor like notepad and make the following changes             define('DB_name', 'database_name_here') change this to define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress')         define('DB_USER', 'username_here') change this to define('DB_USER', 'root')        define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here') change this to ('DB_PASSWORD',' ') leave the password field empty              
5. now save this file as wp-config.php 
6.  open the localhost by entering localhost in the url of the browser and goto phpmyadmin and create a new database. in my case i put the name as wordpress you can create by any name
7. when all this is done click here or type this in your url http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php. register and install wordpress.

When you install wordpress manually on your localhost you can use for practice purpose and understand the basics before you create a live wordperss website.                            

you can also check: Install Wordpress on 000webhost Manually