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This tips dedicated for people who want to learn make a blog using wordpress. Of course, it would be very wasteful if we should directly connected to the Internet only to learn to make a blog. Especially for people who doesn’t have internet connection in their home. For that, it would be nice if we learned first Wordpress bloging with offline in our PC or localhost. In addition to cost savings from the internet, will also be much faster in improving our skills because of course a lot of time for tinkering with the blog on a PC.

Here is a list of what we need:
1. SQL and PHP server for localhost. here we will using WAMP server. Can be downloaded at: http://www.wampserver.com. besides WAMP, we can use XAMPP too.
2. Wordpress, the last version 2.8.4 can be downloaded at: http://www.wordpress.org
3. Wordpress themes according to what we want, you can search in google.
4. Wordpress plugins to complement the theme that we will use.

5. The last one is a cup of tea and snack.

Here we go…

STEP 1

1. Download and install Wamp server. you can download here.
2. Download wordpress 2.8.4 in zip/ tar / gz format, then extract. change the wordpress folder’s name.(for example “blog”).

3. Move the folder “blog” containing this wordpress files to C:\ Wamp\ www, so that they will be a folder in C:\Wamp: www\ blog.

STEP 2

1. Open firefox or other browser you use, type “localhost” in adrees bar (make sure wamp is running) it will appear wamp server page
2. Click on the “phpmyadmin” and emerged a new window. Select Create new database, give the name of such a simple example “dblog”. Collation type let alone do not change. Click “create” will display a notification “Database blog has been created.”
3. Click the “privileges” (this is to create a user database) and then click “Add a new user”. Enter the name that you easily remember ex “admin” and complete the other parameters. Select the local host = localhost. Then click “check all” then click the Go button.
4. Now enter the database to wordpress files. Open C:\ Wamp\ www\ blog, then locate the file wp-config-sample.php then rename the wp-config.php. After that open with notepad, find the following lines: / / ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** / / enter your database info we have made earlier to the appropriate line and click save. The results see the following examples:
/ ** The name of the database for WordPress * /
define ( ‘DB_NAME’, ‘dblog’);
/ ** MySQL database username * /
define ( ‘DB_USER’, ‘admin’);
/ ** MySQL database password * /
define ( ‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘12345 ‘);
/ ** MySQL hostname * /
define ( ‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

STEP 3: wordpress installation
1. Back to firefox, type the local host, click on my project: blog
2. If the process of filling the database is correct then we will go into the process of filling a blog. Fill in your blog name and email in the content is up and then click “Install WordPress”
3. Note the password given by the WP at random, then we can change later. Log In, input your username and password.
Wordpress already installed on your PC. now you can can see your site by clicking “visit site”.