If you’re starting out using WordPress, you might be thinking how can I edit my themes without publishing it live? How can I create modifications on my website without anyone seeing it on the internet? If you’re a theme designer, or wanted to learn how to build themes you need to have a local server.
Why do we need a local server? The reason is to speed up the process, whenever we are creating themes or modifying it uploading and refreshing the page will certainly take you a lot of time. While on local server, we don’t need to upload the file.
Another thing is when we are testing different plugins and themes, it is wise to use a local server since testing different plugins and themes might break your site. While on a local server, you don’t have to worry about it.
Before we start, we need to download these;
Step 1
Install XAMPP on your PC (for Mac users you can use MAMP), it’s easy and just follow the installation process.
Create a folder on C:/xampp/htdocs called wordpress. If you installed it on a different path, use it instead.
Step 2
Unzip our downloaded WordPress file, copy everything and paste it on our wordpress folder in C:/xampp/htdocs/
Step 4
Open your XAMPP and click start on Apache and MySql.
Step 5
Open your browser and put these on your address bar “localhost/phpmyadmin” (without qoutes), click Database and put wordpress on create database field.
Next is to install our WordPress locally. Put this on your adress bar “localhost/wordpress/”, click install. Your screen will be like this one below.
Step 6
Click the button and follow the instructions.
Step 7
Fill in the information needed and click submit.
Step 8
If everything runs smoothly (as it should), you’ll see this screen.
Step 9
Next is the additional information for your site, you can put test site or the name of your website. I used to put Test Site and password is 1234, it’s simple and fast to input. However, for your live site you should take security measures very seriously. I cannot stress this enough.
After that you need to login and start messing your local wp, the great thing about this is you can break and destroy it and rebuild it again without worrying about site issues and such.
Doing this will save you a lot of headache in the future, as a designer I often use this to create wordpress themes and test different plugins for my test sites.
I hope you learned something new today and don’t stop learning about WordPress, and keep on checking Codex whenever you have questions.
If you got an error (I doubt it 
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