{"id":83,"date":"2020-01-23T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/?p=83"},"modified":"2023-03-13T17:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:08:49","slug":"reddit-technology-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/2020\/01\/23\/reddit-technology-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup WordPress in your Local Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">In order to set up WordPress in your local machine<\/span>, you need<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install WAMP (Windows) or MAMP (Mac) to install Apache, MySQL and PHP in your local machine<\/li>\n<li>Using PhpMyAdmin, create a database for WordPress&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Download &amp; copy the latest WordPress to WWW root folder, and start WordPress installation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>1. Install WAMP (Windows) or MAMP (Mac) to install Apache, MySQL, and PHP on your local machine<\/h4>\n<p>Download WAMP (Windows) https:\/\/www.wampserver.com\/en\/download-wampserver-64bits\/&nbsp;<br>or MAMP (Mac) https:\/\/www.mamp.info\/en\/downloads\/<br>These 2 downloads will install Apache, MySQL, and PHP. When downloading MAMP, please remember not to start and using MAMP Pro, which is a paid version. WAMP&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>2. Using PhpMyAdmin, create a database for WordPress&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>Once MAMP or WAMP is downloaded and installed, start PhpMyAdmin<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp1-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp1-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp1.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp2-300x179.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp2-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp2.png 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Create a database named wordpress, and set up a new user account with [Grant all privileges on database wordperss database]. Keep database name, user name, password handy for WP installation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp3-300x126.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp3-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp3.png 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp4.png\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-116\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp4-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp4-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2020\/01\/wp4.png 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>3. Download &amp; copy the latest WordPress to WWW root folder, and start WordPress installation<\/h4>\n<p>In Mac WWW root is Applications &gt; MAMP &gt; htdocs<br>In Windows c:\\WAMP64\\www\\<br>Create a folder under the www root folder called [Wordpress] and copy downloaded WP files from https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/<\/p>\n<p>Once WP files are in your local WWW root, start installing WP by&nbsp;<br>localhost\/wordpress\/ and follow short instruction to enter MySQL database and enter credentials.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on WP installation,&nbsp;<br>https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/how-to-install-wordpress\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nIn order to set up WordPress in your local machine, you need&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/2020\/01\/23\/reddit-technology-feed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;How to Setup WordPress in your Local Machine&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":131979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/sonn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}