Install WordPress in a local directory

This step installs WordPress into a local directory. You need to have already downloaded and installed XAMPP.

1. Open File Explorer and find C:\XAMPP\htdocs. This folder will hold your website files.

2. Create a new subfolder in \htdocs that will contain your local website files (for example, C:\XAMPP\htdocs\my-first-website).

3. Open your web browser and go to https://wordpress.org.

4. Click Get WordPress and download the latest version (5.0.3 at the creation of this guide).

5. Extract the zip files into your new subfolder. Once extracted, you should see a WordPress folder within your website subfolder like this: C:\XAMPP\htdocs\my-first-website\wordpress.

Note:

We recommend extracting the zip files into a subfolder in \htdocs so that you can have multiple WordPress installations and websites in your local environment (e.g. localhost/my-first-website and localhost/my-second-website).

If you are certain that you will only ever have one website, you can extract the files directly into \htdocs.

Step 2 is complete!

Move on to Step 3: Launch the XAMPP Control Panel.

3. Launch

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