How to Install a WordPress Website on a Mac Computer

If you want to install a WordPress website on your own computer, Naiba previously shared atutorial on installing WP on Windows. This article shares a tutorial on how to install a WordPress website on a Mac Apple computer.

Step 1: Download MAMP

MAMP is software that can quickly set up a website environment on your computer. Download LinkAfter downloading, install and run MAMP. The MAMP PRO version is not a mandatory installation item.

Step 2: Start MAMP's Web Services

After running MAMP, enable the services, and click the „Open WebStart page“ button to access phpMyAdmin.

Step 3: Download and Install WordPress

1. Go toWordPress Downloadpage to download the WordPress installation package.
2. After extracting the installation package, copy the contents to the MAMP document root folder.
3. Create a database in phpMyAdmin.
4. Access the WordPress installation page via http://localhost/newwpsite.
5. Fill in the corresponding information according to the actual situation to complete the installation.

By installing a WordPress website on your own computer, you can quickly familiarize yourself with the entire WP installation process, and it can also serve as a local testing environment. For more WordPress installation tutorials, please visit theWordPress Tutorials page。