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How to Install wordpress locally

Intro

Hi Guys, I'm Vaibhav and Today, I'll be showing you how you can install WordPress, Locally on your computer. Now, Why would you want to Install WordPress locally? Normally, if want to build a wordpress site, you would need to buy domain and hosting, and then launch your live website But if you don't want to launch a website yet, and just want to try and test wordpress, you can do that by Reading this Article Okay! So, when you install wordpress locally all your website's files will be stored on your computer, and this means only you will be able to access your website Now, this is a great way for you to learn making your website for free of cost And, once you've build your wordpress site locally, you can then move it to a live website I'll show you, how you can do that at the later part of this Article. So keep reading And now, let's install wordpress locally!

Okay! It is going to be totally free and we're going to do it in just 2 simple steps!

Step - I 

First, we're going to download a software called 'bitnami wordpress' Now, this is the software which is going to allow us to run wordpress on our computer. So to download it, Just Click this link. Bitnami WorpPress

Okay! So the Bitnami software is downloaded! Now, let's go to step 2, which is to install this software So let's open the file we've downloaded And, click 'Ok' Now keep clicking 'next' till you reach this page.

 Okay! So this is the page, where we need to enter the login details of our local wordpress site So enter your name email address and then the username and the password for wordpress make sure you remember these details as you'll be needing this to login into your local wordpress site Once you're done, keep clicking next And wordpress will be installed! And it will takeyou to this page 

So, wordpress is nowinstalled on our computer Now to access your site, you just have to click 'access wordpress' So let's click that And as you can see, our wordpress site is now running on our PC!

Okay! You can access yoursite anytime by going to "localhost/wordpress"on your browser Now if you want to login to wordpress, you just add "/login" And, it will take you to thelogin page of wordpress You can now login, by entering the details that you gave during the installation So, once you've logged in, you can start building your website So this is how you can Install wordpress locally on your PC and start building your website Once you've completed building your website you can then move it to a live website, by Reading This article,here!! 

Now if you want to learn more about WordPress, you can Click here

I'll see you in the next Article Take care Babye :)