‫welcome back my dear students and now in ‫this lecture of the course we're going to
‫be installing WordPress on our Windows operating ‫system so as in the previous lecture we finally
‫installed the XAMPP and we also changed our port ‫and this means that everything is successfully
‫working because these two have turned green so if ‫there are any of the issues feel free to post a
‫question on the udemy forum and I will reply to ‫you as soon as possible let's just go ahead and
‫let let's install WordPress in our computer so ‫the very first thing that we need to do is to go
‫to wordpress.org after that you need to click on ‫get WordPress and once you are on this page then
‫you have to actually click on download WordPress ‫which is going to download the latest file of the
‫WordPress all right my dear students so once the ‫WordPress zip file is actually downloaded then
‫you need to go into your our downloads folder and ‫you should see this WordPress zip file after that
‫you can right click on this WordPress zip file ‫and you can copy this so on Windows 11 this is
‫actually the copy on Windows 10 7 8 you may see ‫copy over here so you can copy the WordPress
‫file after that you can go into your local disk ‫C/XAMPP/htdocs and inside here you can see that
‫we have got this test.php so now we will be ‫actually pasting our copied file over here so
‫let's right click on it and you can see that ‫we've got this paste so you can click on it
‫and the WordPress zip file is here now since we ‫do not need this test.php file that we created
‫before so we can right click on it and we can ‫delete this file that's it now if you go ahead
‫and you visit localhost:8080 which is ‫going to be your port and you hit enter you
‫can see that now we've got this wordpress.ZIP ‫which shows that the WordPress zip file is already
‫here now what we have to do is to extract this ‫ZIP file now on Windows 11 there is already an
‫extracting software that is already installed ‫so if you are using Windows 10 8 7 chances are
‫that that particular Windows do not have the ‫extracting software so if you right click on
‫this ZIP file you can see that I am getting the ‫extract all option but let's suppose that if you
‫are not getting that particular option then what ‫should you do so you can actually visit this
‫win-rar.com and you can download this win Rar by ‫clicking on here and then you can
‫click here and it's going to be downloaded so once ‫the WinRAR is actually download it you can install
‫it and then you can restart your computer and then ‫when you will right click click on this ZIP file
‫you will see that there will be the extracting ‫option so now since I'm getting it by the default
‫so I'll be clicking on here extract all and now ‫you can see it says file will be extracted to
‫this folder so uh what this is actually doing ‫is that this is EXT uh creating another folder
‫as well so what I need to do is that I will need ‫to click on browse and I need to click on this
‫PC and and then I need to click on local disk ‫C sham HD docs and I need to extract the files
‫on this folder okay which is the HD docs so I ‫will now click on select folder that's it now
‫you can see that the files will be extracted ‫to C shamp HD docs that's it once you're done
‫with that then you can click on extract ‫and the files will be extracted over here
‫all right my dear students so once the files are ‫actually extracted then what you need to do is to
‫right click on this uh ZIP file that we have over ‫here which is going to show like WordPress Dash uh
‫the version all right so you can right click on ‫it and you can delete that zip file and now you
‫can see that now we only have got this WordPress ‫folder all right so now if you refresh this page
‫you can see that now we have got this WordPress ‫folder which is right here and now if I click on
‫it it takes me to the WordPress installation ‫page which means that WordPress files has now
‫successfully been copied now here is one of the ‫most important thing that I want to tell you like
‫you can see that Local Host colon 8080 is our ‫website address for our locally hosted website
‫and when we type that then if you hit on on enter ‫we are getting this WordPress folder and if we
‫click on it it takes us to the WordPress website ‫so we do not want that like let's suppose that
‫if I show you this website if I hit on enter ‫it just loads the full website and this is the
‫website that we will be building as our fifth ‫project in this course so now you can see that
‫when I type in the address of the website the ‫website is actually loaded like I do not have
‫to type in there slash WordPress and then I hit ‫on enter and then the WordPress is loaded right
‫so that is why we have to make sure that when ‫we type in our local hosted website address
‫which is Local Host colon your port number and ‫then we hit on enter Then the website should be
‫loaded rather than we have to type in there ‫SL WordPress or we have to click on here and
‫then the WordPress will be loaded all right so ‫what we will do is that we will go into our HD
‫doc folder and and now we will click on this ‫WordPress folder and inside here are the files
‫the main WordPress files that lives here so what ‫we will do is that we will select all the files
‫by pressing controll a and the files are selected ‫now you can press contrl C to copy these files and
‫now you can go back to the HD docs inside the HD ‫docs now you have to paste all the files so you
‫can press control V to paste all the files over ‫here all right so once every file is actually
‫pasted now we do not need this WordPress folder ‫so we can right click on it and we can click on
‫delete all right now if we go ahead and we type ‫in their Local Host colon 8080 and we hit on enter
‫it takes us to the WordPress installation ‫page so let's see if that happens or not
‫there you have it now you can see that we ‫are done with it now the process is really
‫simple we just have to actually let WordPress ‫know what is our database name and everything
‫and everything is going to be done so let's start ‫the installation process first of all you have to
‫select the language we will be selecting English ‫and now we have to click on continue after that it
‫says welcome to Wordpress before getting started ‫you will need to know the following items so you
‫have to know the database name you have to know ‫the database username and you also have to know
‫the database password you have to leave this the ‫database host is actually the host name which is
‫the Local Host so you do not have to worry about ‫it let's just hit on let's go now what is the
‫database name what is the username and what is the ‫password let's take a look at it so first of all
‫what we have to do is to create our user account ‫and our set our password for the database you do
‫not have to remember these credentials but you ‫just have to create it all right so how are we
‫going to create it first of all make sure that in ‫your sham you have got the MySQL server running
‫so once you have actually confirmed that this is ‫actually running then you will need to go into
‫your Chrome and now in your tab you have to type ‫in their Local Host if you have change your Port
‫you have to type in there 8080 or whatever your ‫Port name is and then you have to type in there
‫slash B HB m y a d m i n this is phb my admin so ‫you have to enter that and then you have to hit
‫on enter and it is going to take you to the PHP my ‫admin page all right so now once you are actually
‫in on this page this page page is basically the ‫PHP my admin page that is going to manage the
‫database of your website now uh as I've told you ‫that WordPress is a Content management software
‫and you just have to let the WordPress know that ‫my database name is this my username is this my
‫password is this and WordPress is going to handle ‫each and everything you do not have to touch this
‫page later on everything will be handled by the ‫word press but WordPress requirement is that we
‫need to have a database all right so we will ‫create a database we will tell the WordPress
‫what its name is that's it you will close this ‫page and WordPress will handle each and everything
‫so let's just go ahead and let's first create our ‫database username and set the password and then
‫we'll be moving forward so what you need to do ‫is to go into the phpi admin after that that you
‫have to go into the user accounts and once you are ‫in the user account now you have to click on add
‫user account after that in the username you have ‫to type in there your name so there is actually no
‫need to add the capital letters you can just keep ‫everything to be small and enter your first name
‫which is going to be tanzel in the host name uh ‫instead of the percentage you can write Here Local
‫Host which is the host name of our website locally ‫hosted website and the password now you have to
‫enter a password so I'll be entering a very simple ‫password which is going to be q w t y now since
‫this website is on your own computer this database ‫is also on your own computer so it's okay to
‫actually set this qw t as your password after that ‫you have to retype the password to lb entering in
‫here qwe t y now you do not have to actually ‫remember these credentials whatever you are
‫writing in here you have to write it on this page ‫that's it so after that once you have retyped the
‫password then you can go down and you can see that ‫we've got this Global privileges it says check all
‫so you have to click on check all and then you ‫have to go down and now you have to click on go
‫that's it once you're done with that your user ‫account is going to be created all right so once
‫the user account is actually created now you need ‫to go back to the setup window in the username we
‫entered tanzil and the password was actually qwe ‫t y That's it now what we have to do is to enter
‫the database name so the database name these are ‫actually all of the databases that our PHP my
‫admin contain but for this particular website we ‫will need to create a new empty database like if
‫you click on this database there are some data if ‫you click on any other the database there is going
‫to be some of the data inside here so that is why ‫we have to create a database all right so I will
‫be clicking on new and this is going to take me ‫here now here I have to enter the database name so
‫you can enter the the database name to be anything ‫like uh test uh test is already here so you cannot
‫uh add the database name but let's suppose that ‫if you want to name our database as WordPress
‫or you can add the short form of Wordpress that ‫is WP so we will set the database name to be WP
‫and then we can hit on Create and our database ‫WP is now created and you can see that this is
‫now empty database now what we have to do is to ‫go to our setup configuration again and in the
‫database name we have to type in there WP that's ‫it now you can see that our everything is done
‫you just need to know the database name username ‫password and then you can hit on submit so let's
‫suppose that if I enter incorrect password like ‫if I enter uh instead of the QT I enter the qw
‫e r t y s all right and then I hit on submit it's ‫going to give me an error like uh the username and
‫password is not correct or there is something ‫ER so I can click on try again and now I'll be
‫removing this s that extra s and now I will hit on ‫submit and you can see that now the installation
‫went successful so now I just have to click on run ‫the installation that's it now the in installation
‫is completed WordPress is just asking me some of ‫the details once I enter those details I will be
‫completely done and WordPress will be installed ‫so now here it says what is the site title what
‫is going to be your website title what is going to ‫be your username and password now we also entered
‫a username and password over here in the PHP ‫my admin as well so that username and password
‫uh is not needed to be remembered whatever you ‫will be entering in here and here you will need
‫to remember it like let me show you so this is ‫going to be our first project for this particular
‫course this is going to be our first project ‫now if I type in there /wp-admin and then I
‫hit on enter Then here I have to actually ‫enter a username and a password whatever
‫you will be entering in here and here these ‫credentials are going to be required to log
‫yourself into the WordPress admin panel so you ‫can actually edit the website that is why it
‫is really very important whatever you will be ‫writing in here and here you keep it in a safe
‫place or you remember it so let's enter the ‫site title now on the site title I need you
‫to enter your full name as your site title and ‫the reason for that is because uh we will be
‫building as our first project uh which is going ‫to be a personal website and that is why I need
‫you to enter your website title as your full ‫name so I'll be entering my full name over
‫here after that in the username I'll be entering ‫my name the first name you can enter your first
‫name and you do not have to actually enter a ‫capital letter we can just keep everything to
‫be small in the password now I will be entering ‫the password is as DF G now since this website
‫is going to be on my own computer that is why ‫I can set a week password so I'll just select
‫confirm use of week password in the email I will ‫be entering the email address and now once you are
‫actually done with everything you have entered ‫the site title username password and your email
‫address then you can click on install WordPress ‫that's it once you click on that the WordPress
‫is going to be installed successfully on your ‫computer now I actually told you that this is
‫going to be the database and everything and ‫we we are not going to be managing everything
‫everything is going to be managed by the word ‫press itself so if you just actually click on
‫this WP database again you can see that now we ‫have got some of the data and WordPress is now
‫communicating with the database successfully ‫and we do not need this page however we have
‫to make sure that every time you want to access ‫the website the Apache and MySQL which is the
‫database these both two services are actually ‫running so that our website can run all right
‫now let's take a look at our website if I just go ‫ahead and I now visit Local Host colon 8080 and
‫then I hit on enter this is basic basically ‫a website that is right here created by the
‫WordPress themselves and this is how the website ‫looks now WordPress is successfully installed and
‫now if I want to log into the website then ‫what I have to do is that I have to type in
‫there slash wp- a DM i n so you have to just ‫type in there Local Host colon 8080 /wp-admin
‫and then you have to hit on enter and this is ‫going to check if you are logged in uh then it
‫is going to redirect you to the admin panel if ‫you are not logged in it will ask you to enter
‫your username and your password that you entered ‫while you were installing WordPress all right so
‫we have to enter tanzel as a username and in ‫the password we will be entering in here a s
‫dfgh this was our password right after that you ‫can click on log in and it is going to log you in
‫to the WordPress dashboard or the WordPress admin ‫panel and this is how the website looks uh this
‫is how the admin panel looks if I just uh bring ‫my mouse to the title and then I click on the
‫visit site this is how the website is looking so ‫now from the next lecture uh we will be actually
‫working with the installation of Wordpress on ‫the Mac operating system but since you already
‫own a Windows operating system you can leave ‫that section and after that section from the
‫next section basically we will be working with ‫the basics of Wordpress people will learn um
‫everything about the WordPress dashboard Pages ‫themes plugins and so much more so now the main
‫and the fun part begins because the installation ‫part is successfully completed congratulations
‫to you from the next lecture onwards you will be ‫amazed to see how amazing WordPress actually is