How to install WordPress in XAMPP Windows 11

WordPress is arguably the most used and popular CMS available today. Most of the popular websites and blogs are made up of it. It was initially released on May 27, 2003 and was developed by WordPress Foundation. And for this tutorial, we are going to make a free website using this cool CMS. But before doing so, you need to download the required files to start the installation. I also provided the links for your convenience.

Requirements:

• XAMPP 5.6.x, download here [via Mediafire]
• WordPress-6.0.2, download here [via Mediafire]

After downloading all the files, continue doing the listed tutorials below.

Table of Content

• XAMPP installation on Windows 11
• Running XAMPP Control Panel's Apache and MySQL
• Copying WordPress installer to HTDOCS folder
• Creating WordPress Database on XAMPP phpMyAdmin
• WordPress installation via Localhost or 127.0.0.1
• Accessing WordPress website home page
• Accessing WordPress website ADMIN account

Here are the steps on how to install WordPress in XAMPP using Windows

XAMPP installation on Windows 11

1. Open the XAMPP file that you downloaded earlier. If a "Warning" appears, just click OK to proceed.

2. In the Setup - XAMPP, click NEXT.

3. In the Select Components, click on NEXT.

4. In the Installation folder, click on NEXT.

5. In the Bitnami for XAMPP click on NEXT again.

6. You are now ready to install XAMPP. Click NEXT again.

7. Wait for the installation to finish.

8. When done, click on Finish to exit the installer.

Running XAMPP Control Panel's Apache and MySQL

1. To run XAMPP, you can click on the shortcut located on your desktop. You can also go to Start and search for "xampp" and press ENTER. Inside XAMPP Control Panel, click on the Start buttons for Apache and MySQL.

2. Apache and MySQL are both running now if you see two Stop buttons.

3. If you also see a "Windows Security Alert" just click on Allow access to exit.

Copying WordPress installer to HTDOCS folder

1. Back to the WordPress zip file that you also downloaded earlier, extract it and name the extracted folder as "wordpress". Make sure all the contents of your wordpress folder is not inside a sub-folder. Now, copy your wordpress folder, go to Start and search for "this pc" and press ENTER.

2. Inside This PC, click on your C drive.

3. Inside C, click on xampp folder.

4. Now, inside xampp, click on htdocs.

5. Paste your wordpress folder inside htdocs.

Creating WordPress Database on XAMPP phpMyAdmin

1. We are now going to create a database that is needed for the installation of our WordPress site. Open your web browser and in the address bar, type 127.0.0.1 and press ENTER.

2. Inside, click on phpMyAdmin.

3. Inside phpMyAdmin, click on Databases.

4. Inside Create database, name it as wordpress_db for this tutorial. Next to it, change the value to utf8mb4_unicode_ci and press Create.

5. In the Create table, name it as wordpress_table and leave 4 as the value of columns.

6. In the Structure, name it as wordpress and for Type leave it as INT.

7. For Collation, select utf8_unicode_ci and leave all the other fields blank.

8. Save your work.

WordPress installation via Localhost or 127.0.0.1

1. We are now going to install our WordPress site. Open your web browser. In the address bar, type 127.0.0.1/wordpress and press ENTER.

2. In the Language, by default English (United States) is already selected. Just press Continue to proceed.

3. In the "Welcome to WordPress..." you will be needing the following; Database name, username, password and host. We already have all of these so, just click on Let's go! to proceed.

4. In the Database configuration, enter the following: Database name - wordpress_db, username - root, Password - blank or none, Database Host - localhost, Table Prefix - wp_ (which is already there). When done, click on Submit.

5. We are now ready to install our WordPress website, click on the "Run the installation" to confirm.

6. In the "Information needed" just name your WordPress site for the Site Title. In Username name type "admin" and in the password, type your desired password. Do not forget both your username and password. You will be needing those later to login your admin account. Enter your email address and press Install WordPress to proceed.

7. Done! Your WordPress site is successfully installed. 

Accessing WordPress website home page

1. To access your WordPress website homepage, just go to 127.0.0.1/wordpress or localhost/wordpress.

Accessing WordPress website ADMIN account

1. To access your WordPress admin account. Go to 127.0.0.1/wordpress/admin. Enter your username and password and press Login.

2. Inside your administration page, you will see there settings, links and configurations that is only available to you as owner and admin of your WordPress site.

Thank you for reading this post guys. I do hope you have learned a lot while doing this tutorial. If you have question, you can leave a comment below. Cheers!