When I started this site to write about WordPress Tutorials, I was looking for a way to install WordPress on Mac so that I can try out various things before writing tutorials about them.Įven in your case, chances are that you will someday want to install WordPress locally on your machine. Before you can install MAMP on your Mac, youll need to download it from the MAMP website. It could just be for learning WordPress or to try out some customizations or to record some tutorials. It is always easier to try out various things if you have WordPress installed locally on your machine.
#MAMP INSTALL WORDPRESS HOW TO#
So in this tutorial, I will show you how to install WordPress on Mac using MAMP. How to Install WordPress on Mac Using MAMP If you are interested to learn about creating WordPress websites the code-free way, then read this massive guide. There are basically 3 steps to follow for installing WordPress on Mac using MAMP: MAMP is a free software that can be used to host WordPress sites locally on your machine. You can download MAMP for Mac from its site. Ī file with the extension “.pkg” will get downloaded. Double-click on that file to start the installation process.įollow the instructions in the installation process to install MAMP. On successful installation, you should see a message saying MAMP and MAMP PRO were installed successfully.Īs you can see in the above screenshot, I entered “myawesomedb” as the database name. Remember the name that you give to your database, we will need it while installing WordPress.
WordPress installation process will create the required database tables. Step 3: Download and Install WordPressĭownload the latest copy of WordPress from and unzip it. You should get a folder called “wordpress” which will contain all the files needed to run WordPress. Then go to Applications folder on your Mac. In Applications folder, go inside MAMP folder and then go inside “htdocs” folder.
Paste the WordPress folder over here that you just renamed.
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