How To Install WordPress 2.7 On Your Mac In Under 5 Minutes

This video tuto­r­ial is all about how to install Word­Press on your mac, and get­ting started play­ing with Word­Press, so you can begin test­ing things out as quickly as possible.

A few good rea­sons you would want to do this are:

• Test­ing out a theme
• Test­ing out a plugin
• To keep a backup you can play with
• To learn Word­Press from the com­fort at home.

I have made two videos for this tuto­r­ial.  The first cov­ers every­thing you need to know, and what to look out for, the sec­ond video shows me in real time, installing word­press.  This video takes place after hav­ing down­loaded MAMP and WordPress.

 

Video 1

 

Video 2

Here are the easy to fol­low steps

 

1. Go to Mamp.info and down­load the free ver­sion. You can use this link incase their web­site is down http://download.living-e.com/MAMP/releases/1.7.2/MAMP_1.7.2.dmg

2. Open the dmg, and drag the folder into your appli­ca­tions folder. (it must be run from the appli­ca­tions folder.)

3. Open the folder up, and open up MAMP.  then click start server (it will tell you map is run­ning on your page and every­thing is ok)

4. Make a data­base for your blog,

• Click on php myad­min, give it a name (make note of it) and click create
• Next go to wordpress.org and down­load the lat­est ver­sion of WordPress
• Unzip it, and drag the folder into your htdocs

5. Go to your web browser, type in localhost:8888/wordpress/

6. Click cre­ate a wp-config.php

7. Default user and pass is root root then click submit

8. Click run install

9. Give it a title and your email,

10. Click con­tinue to sec­ond step Make sure you note your login and pass­word, then click login and your fin­ished. Make sure you as always change the password.

 

You can find out more about word­press by check­ing out wordpressfoundations.com Stay tuned for more tutorials!

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