How to install WordPress locally on Windows platform

About WordPress.

As we all know WordPress is one of the most famous online web development open source contain management system. WordPress is written on PHP language, so its fully open source, build in libraries included web solution. It is a part of growing open source society developed by hundreds of peoples. WordPress was started in year 2003 with single bit of code group. Since then it become the most popular & free online self hosted blogging platform available on internet. WordPress is used to create any type of websites like blogging blogs, e-commerce website, social networking websites by implementing there plugins and libraries. It is completely open source so there are hundreds of people around the globe working on it to make it more better and flexible.

Things that you can do with WordPress.

When WordPress start in 2003 it is only used to create blogging websites to share there information knowledge tutorials on internet but now after evolving in all those years its convert into full contain management system including thousands of free themes, plugins, drag n drop environment so there is no limitation on WordPress. You can develop and design whatever on WP, there are no limitation on WordPress, WordPress is limited where your imagination ends.

How to install WordPress on windows local system.

1. Before start installing WordPress on your local system, first you need to setup and install Xampp Apache server. Because Xampp server provides local sever side environment to run server side scripting langues like php on local computer. So read my previous article about Start online web development using xampp sever.
2. Download WordPress offline + online setup from Here.
3. After done downloading extract the download zip folder using Winrar or any other zip extractor software and put all files in a single folder and set folder name anything or WordPress.
4. Copy the WordPress folder to C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress . Screenshot of folders and files on WordPress folder.
   
5. Start Apache server, MySQL from xampp control panel.
6. After all that part you need to configure and create MySQL database using phpmyadmin. Because WordPress is dynamic php based cms and dose not work without database. So open localhost/phpmyadmin/ on your web browser and create a database from New menu at the top left side of screen.
7. Open again web browser and type localhost/wordpress . here wordpress represents your folder name that you have copied on htdocs folder.
8. Select your blog's default home language. WordPress supports more then 66 different langues so choose your home language.
   
9. After that lets go on next window enter the Database name ( Created on phpmyadmin ), Database user name ( default phpmyadmin database username is root ), Password ( no need to enter password so leave empty it ),  Database Hose ( set database host as localhost ), Table prefix ( don't change ).
   
10. On the next window if your all given information is correct then Run the install.
11. Enter website name, website admin username ( you will login with this username into your website admin panel ), password ( login password ), your email address ( always enter the correct email because if you forget your website password then password reset email will be sent to this email), Privacy ( There is no need to enable privacy option on local system but if you are installing WordPress on hosting server then enable it or website will not be index on search engines like Google ).
    

After all this procedure it will successfully installed on your local system. you can login into your WordPress admin panel dashboard via localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php file.