What is WordPress?
At its core, WordPress is the easiest, most popular way to create your own website or blog. In fact, WordPress dominates 43.3% of all websites on the Internet. Yes – one in four websites you visit is likely to be powered by WordPress.
At a slightly more technical level, WordPress is an open-source content management system licensed under GPLv2, which means anyone can use or edit the WordPress software for free. A content management system is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website – such as content – without having to know anything about programming.
The end result is that WordPress makes it easy for anyone to create a website – even people who are not developers.
When you want to create a new site using WordPress then you must need to check the following steps.
Step 1: First of all open the link https://wordpress.org/download/
Step 2: Then click on the “download and install” link. Please check the snapshot.
Step 3: Extract ZIP File
Localhost
If you want to install WordPress in the localhost then you must need to activate the “Apache” & “MySql” module in the Xampp control. Please check.
Create a project folder in the “htdocs” folder.
Then extract the WordPress zip in the project folder.
Live Server
In the live server, you can direct extract WordPress zip in the public_html folder.
Step 4: Installation in Localhost and Live Server
For localhost
Please run the localhost project URL in the browser.
For Live Server
Please run the live site URL in the browser.
After run the URL you can see the below image.
Then choose the language and click on the “Continue” button.
Now you can see the below screen.
Click on the “Let’s go!” button
Now you can see the database configuration screen.
For the database configuration, You need to create the database in the localhost or Live server.
Then you must need to set database detail, Please check.
Then click on the “Submit” button.
Now, You can see the below screen.
Then click on the “Run the Installation” button.
Now, You can see the below screen.
Please fill all the above details.
Then click on the “Install WordPress” Button.
Now, you can see the below screen.
Click on the “Log In” button.
Now Your WordPress Installation is done.
If you have any questions about the WordPress installation then you can post a comment.