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Hi Fastlaner,

This is one of my way to give back to this awesome community.

The main purpose is to help FLF member to gain more knowledge about wordpress. After reading the tutorials, you should be pretty confident with Wordpress. If you decided not to do it by yourself and hire other people, then you will be less likely to get scammed because you already know the overall process.

I will start with the basic things, then move forward to more complicated tutorials like building themes/plugins.

Hopefully it will give benefit to you :)

First Tutorial: How To Install Wordpress On Your Computer.

Do you know that you can install wordpress on your computer? Why would you do it? Usually the main reason is for testing and development. It is safer and faster. If you develop themes/plugins on your computer(usually referred as localhost), your online site will not be changed. Then after you finished with testing and development, you can just upload it on your hosting.

Now, to be able to run wordpress in localhost you need to understand the components.

Wordpress is being made by php as programming language. So you need php on your machine. It also use MySQL as database. To run php, you need web server named Apache. In the earlier days, you need to install PHP, MySQL and Apache separately then configure it so it can speak to each other. But now, you just need to download XAMPP and all will be done automatically for you.

Here's how:

Download XAMPP on https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

I am using Windows and select version 1.8.3. You can choose according to your own OS.
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After finish download, double click the installer and follow through with Next several times to go forward to other screens. Bitnami provide installation of XAMPP+wordpress but I prefer to download and install it separately so you can know more about the process.
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When the installation finished, go to XAMPP control panel by clicking icon on the icon tray (on windows) or in the start menu. It should open this window:
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If you receive the same error message (on the red text) it means that you should configure your Skype because so it won't use the same port as Apache. You should open Skype -> Tools -> Options -> advanced -> Connections .Then uncheck option “Use port 80 & 443 for additional incoming connections”

After you configure Skype, you should be able to start Apache and MySQL
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Now we will create database that will be used by wordpress. To create the database, click the Admin button on MySQL.
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It will open phpmyadmin on your browser:
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Click New on the left side bar and then fill up the database name: mysite1
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After environment settings on your computer has been finished, now we will continue on Wordpress part.
Download wordpress from: http://wordpress.org/download/

After it finished, extract the wordpress into XAMPP >> htdocs directory. On my computer the directory structure is like this:
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On that directory, rename “wp-config-sample.php” to be “wp-config.php” then open it using notepad or notepad++
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Next, change the database name, user and password into something like this:
- Database name will be ‘mysatename1’
- Database user will be ‘root’
- Database password will be blank ‘’ make sure that there’s no space between the aposthrope
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After configured the wp-config.php, open your browser and go to Wordpress installation http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
Fill the title, username, password and then click install.
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If you see this screen, then it means you’re success. Congratulation!
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Now your wordpress on localhost can be opened using url http://localhost/wordpress/
To login to your dashboard you can login using http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/
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Simple isn't? Your computer now can act as a web server and you can run wordpress locally.

You can login to the dashboard, upload themes and play with many things inside.

You can also go to themeforest and buy premium themes to setup on your local wordpress.

If you have difficulties, you can post here and I'll do my best to help :)

For the next tutorials, I'm planning to write about how to install wordpress on your hosting.
But if you have any suggestion, you can mention what kind of tutorial about wordpress that you like.

Cheers,
Awan
 
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IronMunkee

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Oh wow! Just today I was wondering man how do I play with WordPress and learn some advanced features if I can't really afford hosting right now. This is great! I wanna learn how to at least set up some basic sites and hopefully freelance whatever I can, I don't know programming but I've played with WP before it wasn't all too hard.

Thanks and please keep em coming!
 

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Kudos to anyone trying to help out this community. Great job!
 

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Awesome thread!

Quick question : I'm installing the Agile WordPress theme and I have lots of duplicated pages at the top... So, like five iterations of home, team, etc. How do I fix this?
 
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Awesome thread!

Quick question : I'm installing the Agile WordPress theme and I have lots of duplicated pages at the top... So, like five iterations of home, team, etc. How do I fix this?
Post a link, so that we can see it?
 

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Not publicly, not yet...
 

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@IronMunkee : Glad I can help!
Freelancing is one phase that can be useful to gain knowledge and funding your FL idea.
Reading from the book, @MJ DeMarco also doing freelance to get knowledge of web dev before creating his taxi website.
Btw is there any particular topic about wordpress that you like me to cover?
I'll do my best to incorporate it on my next tutorial.

@Gale4rc : Thank you for the encouragement!
Just let me know if you need any wordpress tutorial to cover.

@Iwokeup : In my experience this kind of thing happen because of duplicate import data.
You can manually delete the pages and navigation.
Or you can just delete the database and create clean install.
Ask away if you need any help!

I'm planning to write more tutorial in one-two days.
Hopefully I can understand more in which area that you want to know about wordpress.

:cool:
Cheers from sunny Indonesia,
Awan
 

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On that directory, rename “wp-config-sample.php” to be “wp-config.php” then open it using notepad or notepad++
CIM0vAG.png


Next, change the database name, user and password into something like this:
- Database name will be ‘mysatename1’
- Database user will be ‘root’
- Database password will be blank ‘’ make sure that there’s no space between the aposthrope
Z5888Nw.png

I just wanted to let you know that if you use a Mac there is a little difference in setup that makes an awful lot of a difference.
If by any chance the above doesn't work, change 'localhost' to 'Localhost' (yes... capitalized L) as follows:

define('DB_HOST', 'Localhost');

do not ask my why.
 
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Wow amazing!

Just starting to learn my way around WP Wish I had seen this before I bought hosting but oh well:rolleyes: you never know till you know.
 

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I had a problem where the exe wouldn't run and all I would see is the blue loading icon on the pointer.

Solved my issue by turning off UAC and downloaded the zip file instead

Although I could have turned of UAC and then tried running the exe but it all worked out .

just thought id throw this in here just incase anyone has the same problem
 

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I finished installing but I only see one PID(s) and every time I I click on the link to access WordPress I have to enter the port number.

Is this normal or can I do something so that it goes in automatically?
 
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Bump, served me well
 

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