How to WordPress - Install WordPress on WAMP Server

Posted by Ian on May 25, 2013 in WordPress

Welcome to another episode of “How to WordPress”.. an ever-continuing collection of WordPress how to tutorials, resources, and videos.

In this session of “How to WordPress” we’ll discuss how to install WordPress on WAMP Server. Recall that in a previous episode we looked at how to install WAMP Server. Now that we have that in place we can install WordPress on WAMP Server and start running our installation just as we would be doing if this were a production environment. There are a lot of benefits to having a local WordPress setup. We can do all of our editing of pages and posts offline before publishing them. We can do our theme development locally. And we can install different plugins to test them out to see if we like them and we don’t have to worry about mucking up our production environment.

Those using Macs will want to look into MAMP server, which is essentially the same idea behind WAMP server (only for Mac).

Video below…