Try, test and work with the application in your local environment
Why Install Locally?
Configure admin account
Table Prefix: wp_
Once the installation is complete, you can go ahead and close the box. See image below.
Installing WordPress is one of those tasks that can be a little scary the first time. In this post we’ll walk step-by-step through the process to complete a local install of WordPress on your Mac. The process relies on some Mac-specific features, but some of the steps are shared with doing the installation or Windows, or a hosting account.
Step Four: Launch Application
Having fun? Good, let’s move on and install a WordPress multisite network so you can easily run multiple sites on a single instance of WordPress.
Apache: an open source web server
Work in a faster development environment (because it doesn’t rely on an internet connection and communicating with a web server)
Features of MarsEdit
Launch Softaculous from your control panel
We know our database details and already created the database. So we’ll click “Let’s go!” on the next screen.
In the main section of the window, you’ll enter the post’s headline, any tags you wish to use, and then of course, the content.