What is WordPress?

WordPress is an online software tool for you to create your own website or blog.

What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

WordPress is a (CMS) content management system. it is a free tool or platform that helps you create, edit, and manage your own website or blog without needing to learn code.

WordPress is open-source. That means it is free software that anyone can download and use.

WordPress Themes and Plugins

There are two important things in wordpress when you start building your WordPress site themes and plugins. WordPress allows you to install plugins to add extra functionality to your website.

What is a theme?

A theme is a website template with a certain layout and design.

Installing a theme

To install a new theme, make your way to Appearance, click on Themes, and select Add New. Once you find the theme you are looking for, click on Install. And once installed, don’t forget to click on Activate.

If you have a theme in the form of a zip file, you can install it manually. Click on Add new, and then at the top, select Upload theme. Then, you can upload it from your computer.

Installing a Plugin

To add a plugin, navigate to Plugins in the WordPress dashboard and select Add New. Click Install then activate the plugin and your plugin will activated.

How to Get WordPress/Download?

Follow The Steps:

Step No.1 Go to WordPress official website the you will see the interface like this in below picture.

Now you can see Get WordPress button click on it.

Step No.2 Then you will redirected to another wordpress page called download.

You will see page like this then click the download wordpress button for the latest version of wordpress.

How to create a new wordpress account?

Okay, If you want to create a new wordpress account follow the steps below.

Step No.1 visit wordpress.org/register page.

You can see the register page, now fill out with your details enter “username” and “email” tick the checkbox and hit the create account then you will redirected to create your “password” page, create a strong password then your account will be created then you can login.

If you already have an account then do not create a new account you should login only.

How to Log In WordPress?

Step No.2 Enter your username or email address to login to your account.

How to Install WordPress Locally In Your PC Hard Drive?

Installing WordPress locally means running it is on your own computer instead of a live hosting server. But there are some requirements to install wordpress.

Requirements to install the setup

You need some tools before starting.

A local server (Apache)
PHP
MySQL (database)

There is a all in one package solution tool called xampp software it is a server.

Step No.1 Download and Install XAMPP

Download XAMPP
Open your browser
Go to the official website: apachefriends.org
Click Download and choose the version for your operating system
(Windows / macOS / Linux)
Select a PHP version (PHP 8.x is recommended)

Install XAMPP

Run the installer
Click Next
Select components:
Apache
MySQL
PHP
phpMyAdmin
Choose installation location
(Default: C:\xampp on Windows)
Click Next → Install
Finish installation

Step No.2 Start Apache and MySQL

Open XAMPP Control Panel
Click Start next to:
- Apache
- MySQL
If both turn green, your local server is running successfully
Test Your Server
Open a browser
Go to: localhost/
If you see the XAMPP dashboard, it’s working

Step 3: Download WordPress

We have discussed about this step.

Go to the official WordPress website: wordpress.org
Click Download WordPress
You will get a ZIP file
Extract the ZIP file

Step No.4 Move WordPress to the XAMPP Folder

Go to your XAMPP installation folder: C:\xampp\htdocs\

Step No.5 Create a Database for WordPress

Database is used to store your all media files and information.

Open phpMyAdmin

Open your browser
Go to: localhost/phpmyadmin

Create Database

Click Databases
Enter database name: wordpress
Click Create

Step No.6 Configure WordPress

Open WordPress Installer

Open browser
Go to: localhost/wordpress
Choose Language
Select your preferred language English or another one
Click Continue

Step No.7 Enter Database Details

Field	Value
Database Name	wordpress
Username	root
Password	leave it empty
Database Host	localhost
Table Prefix	wp_

Click Submit Run the installation

Step No.8 WordPress Site Setup

Now fill in site information and details

Required Details

Site Title Your website name
Username Admin login name
Password Strong password
Email Admin email
Uncheck “Discourage search engines” Don’t check this if you checked this by mistake your site will not visible to any search engine.
Click Install WordPress

Step No.9 Login to WordPress Dashboard

After installation is complete

Click Log In
Go to: localhost/wordpress/wp-admin
Enter username & password

Congratulations! WordPress is installed locally.

Now you can customize your website design and layout, colors and more things as you want to see it.

There is not only way to Install wordpress locally into your personal computer, You can also install wordpress with live server, If you have bought any web hosting service from any hosting service providers.

If you do not know or not familiar about web hosting service then, I will recommend some web hosting providers, the first is hostinger and you can search more from google for better results and which gives you cheap costs plans and easy to use and simple user interface to understand.

If you want to make your website live on the internet and public can access and visit your site you should buy your own domain name to live your site world wide.

And If you do not know how to buy a domain name and point a domain to wordpress website you can search on google you will get different guide blogs results on the web.

In future, I will write and publish these two blogs posts with detailed and step by step guidance for you to understand it.

Please feel free to comment below in the comment section that how much this blog post was helpful for you and how much you learned from it.

Now let’s take a little short overview on the domain name DNS and web hosting.

Domain Name

What is a domain Name?

A domain name is your address on the global network which we called an internet. As like we have our home’s address in our city area.

Web Hosting

What is web hosting?

Web hosting is the home place where your files are stored. Let’s breakdown the simple example to understand quickly.

Example: I take a house on a rent then i will store my thing in my house place that is why i have to pay them their fixed annually price.

Domain = Address and Web Hosting = House

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Introduction to WordPress Basics & Installation Setup tutorial