Installing Wordpress Locally on Your PC
June 29, 2008
A lot of my students at the Dojo want to practice with WordPress locally on their PC, and many just discovered WordPress and they would like to play with if before getting involved with a hosting account or working on a server.
I found a blog, Techzilo, with a wonderful tutorial for installing WordPress on your PC. I’ve used these instructions a few times and I think they are quite nice.
Testing your themes and plugins can be a big head ache, as you have to reload the page every time, consuming bandwidth. Bandwidth is precious, unless you own a dedicated server at MediaTemple or something(!). Also, any edit has to be uploaded before previewing. This gets tiresome, and you would have wondered whether there is an easier way.
Linux users have the LAMPP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), which is easy, but Windows users are mostly unaware of a similar package. It is called XAMPP(XP, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Once you install it, you can setup WordPress locally, and test your plugins/themes/hacks offline. You save bandwidth, effort and time.
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