{"id":2006,"date":"2014-05-30T17:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T00:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2014-09-04T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T23:18:50","slug":"installing-wordpress-using-xampp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"Installing WordPress using XAMPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When customizing\/working on a new WordPress layout &#8211; it&#8217;s better if you don&#8217;t do it on your live blog.\u00a0 Instead, install XAMPP<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Install-Wordpress-on-XAMPP\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Install-Wordpress-on-XAMPP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can then set up the database and install WordPress in the httpdocs\/ directory &#8211; but that&#8217;s not a straightforward\/easy process.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of all the extra setup, you can also use <a href=\"https:\/\/bitnami.com\/stack\/wordpress\/installer\" target=\"_blank\">Bitnami&#8217;s WordPress application <\/a>that installs WordPress for you and takes care of a lot of the annoying database and other setup bits.\u00a0 They have versions for Windows, OS X, and Linux to make your life easier.<\/p>\n<p>After setup, instead of the WordPress files being in the normal httpdocs\\ directory, Bitnami&#8217;s WordPress on top of XAMPP <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/16188221\/how-to-use-bitnami-wordpress-install-on-xampp-on-windows-7\" target=\"_blank\">puts the WordPress files <\/a>in <code>X:\\..\\XAMPP\\apps\\wordpress<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When customizing\/working on a new WordPress layout &#8211; it&#8217;s better if you don&#8217;t do it on your live blog.\u00a0 Instead, install XAMPP http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Install-Wordpress-on-XAMPP You can then set up the database and install WordPress in the httpdocs\/ directory &#8211; but that&#8217;s not a straightforward\/easy process. Instead of all the extra setup, you can also use Bitnami&#8217;s WordPress application that installs WordPress for you and takes care of a lot of the annoying database and other setup bits.\u00a0 They have versions for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2006\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technicalproblemsolutions","category-technicalprogramming","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-wm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}