Installing Wordpress

 


Lab 04 


In this lab,  the lecturer introduced us to WordPress, MAMP and Laragon. For this lab, we went about installing WordPress, MAMP or Laragon onto our computers. This installation was ideal for the development phase of a WordPress blog. 


WordPress is a free open-source content management system that allows its users to host and create websites of their own and can be downloaded from the link www.wordpress.org.  The lecturer told us to not confuse the .org site with the .com site.  WordPress.com is a hosted version of the open-source package where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge. This is generally used for bloggers. 




The first step was to download the WordPress program from WordPress.org link and when it was downloaded, we unzipped the zip file of the WordPress program and got all the content that makes up WordPress. 


The second step was moving the file to our MAMP htdocs folder.  


The third step was creating the database on PHPMyAdmin which can be used by WordPress. I named my sample database wp_data_cdm_6. 



The fourth step was heading into the MAMP site and going into the index page of the MAMP program which will lead us to a blank page that says index on the top left and the file name with a link to the WordPress setup. 




The opening of the WordPress site






My SQL information about the site




This was me making the Database name, username, password and database host



This then lead to me making the Site title and Username etc for my site which made me be able to install WordPress 















One of the other tasks was the change basic settings in the WordPress site such as changing the URL and site address









This was the end result of my created WordPress site




This is a sample page with some content on the page of the CDM Website


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