Wordpress Quick guide

Wordpress is a Blog program that lets you easily create and maintain a website of your very own. It is very flexible and has many plugins available to add new functionality, but it is also very easy to install. Assuming you have followed our XAMPP Installation Guide you are ready to install Wordpress!

Downloading and Configuring Wordpress

To download the latest version of Wordpress, you need to go to: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Once the file is downloaded, extract the .ZIP file and then copy the contents of the worpress directory to C:\xampp\htdocs (which is the default location for web files if you followed our XAMPP guide, otherwise use the directory you configured).

Open your XAMPP Control Panel and make sure both Apache and MySQL are running. If not, click the Start button next to each.

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After they are running, you need to go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php

This section allows you to modify your databases as Wordpress needs you to set one up for it to work. On this page, look for the “Create new database” section. Put in “wordpress” , without the quotes and click Create.

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Now to install Wordpress, you just need to go to this link from your web browser and it will walk you through configuration:

http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

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The Username by default is “root” and the password is blank. You can change this through PHPAdmin in the Privileges tab if you wish but make sure you use the same password for both. Leave the other options as they are and click Submit.

Once the installation is complete, you can access log in and access the administration section of the Blog at this link:

http://yourhost.dyndns.com/wp-login.php

If you would like more documentation on how to use Wordpress, there are numerous documents at:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress