Step 1 : Installing XAMPP
Go to the Apache Friends website and download XAMPP.
The XAMPP setup wizard will guide you through the installation. Click Next.
It's up to you which components you need to install. Since we need to run WordPress in our localhost condition,
leave MySQL and phpMyAdmin checked and uncheck the rest of the alternatives.
Next, select the folder where you might want to install XAMPP on your machine.
I’m going to create a new folder in C:\XAMPP
Click Next
Since we are going to install WordPress manually click on next.
click next , finally ready to install
install , Leave this option ticked and click on finish. Start Apache & MySQL from the list
Running XAMPP
Both services are running fine
Step 2: phpMyAdmin
To start phpMyAdmin we need to open our web browser and writelocalhost/phpmyadmin in url bar, the below screen will be shown.
Step 3: Create Database
For creating database Follow the image below:-
Step 4: Download wordpress
1. Download the WordPress package from
2. Extract the downloaded WordPress folder in xampp folder which we made at the time of installation of xampp.
Step 5: Setup configuration
Now we can get on with actually installation process of wordpress. Open your browser and go to
Once you have chosen your language continue onto the next screen and enter your database username and password details.
Database Name − Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for WordPress.
Username − Enter the user name of your MySQL database.
Password − Enter the password which you had set for MySQL database.
Database Host − Write the host name, by default it will be localhost.
Table Prefix − It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. It takes the default value.
Site title− Enter the name of the site which you are going to create in WordPress.
Username − Enter the username as per your choice which is required at the time of logging in the WordPress.
Password twice − Enter password two times to protect your site.
Your E-mail − Enter your e-mail address which helps to recover the password or any update.
Privacy − It allows the search engine to index this site after checking the checkbox.
Step 6: Run the install
Step 7:
After installation being successful, you will get a screen of the stating success as seen in the screen.
click on the
