Download the installer for the current version of XAMPP
Go through the installation wizard and change nothing if you are not sure what you are changing.
After the installation you see the XAMPP control panel.
Just click the start button of Apache and MySQL to run both with the basic configurati...
To run WordPress on your computer you need to configurate a database first.
Be sure that Apache and MySQL are running (see Installing XAMPP step 3)
Start a web browser of your choice and enter "localhost" in the address.
Choose your preferred language and select in the category "...
After you installed XAMPP and setup the MySQL database you can install WordPress.
Download the latest version of WordPress.
Unzip the file and insert the folder in the root directory of your webserver (if you used the suggested path during the setup of XAMPP it is "c:\xampp\htdocs").
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