WordPress: Nirvana

So now I had Xampp running on my laptop, and it didn’t seem to be causing too many problems while running, so that was great. I had Apache, MySQL and PHP humming along nicely, so now it was time to start tackling the installation of WordPress on my PC.

To recap, I was doing this for a number of reasons:

1. Learn how this all works together, so I can understand the system. I am a computer geek at heart and even if I end up paying for Web Hosting through another company, that runs WordPress for me, and administers it for me, I still want to know how the whole thing hangs together, because that is what gives me “warm fuzzies”
2. I was planning to use this system as my “technical notebook” at work. This way, I could enter my notes online. I would then be able to search them better than with my old black lab book.
3. I could use the capabilities of the WordPress to back up my blogs on blogspot to my local PC. This way, I would not be at Blogspot’s mercy if they decided to turn my account off. Otherwise, I would have lost 3 years worth of writing. This is an important factor as well.

So Keep WordPress ?

So there you go, three really good reasons to go ahead and attempt to install WordPress on top of Xampp on my laptop. The backup was actually a really nice add on because I am always afraid of losing my writings, which of course one day will be published as a great book (oh that’s funny every time I write it).

So now we are going to try to install WordPress, what do we do next? Well, come back on Monday and we’ll see.

The Journey to WordPress

• WordPress a really useful exercise – why even start looking at WordPress
• The Journey Continues – to get to WordPress you start with LAMP but what about XAMPP
• WordPress Nirvana – why even set up WordPress on a local computer?
• Installing WordPress Locally – how hard could that be? Actually not that hard.
• So What You Had WordPress ? You can use it for many different things.
• Why Not Use External Hosting ? I ended up doing just that.