WooCommerce is a popular plugin of WordPress to develop a e-commerce site in short time and most easy way. Anyone who has no programming knowledge can easily develop an e-commerce site by using WordPress with WooCommerce plugin. If you never used WordPress before then no problem. The ways of installing WordPress and WooCommerce after Installing XAMPP Server have been shown in this tutorial.
Install XAMPP server:
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You will require a web server, database server and PHP to install WordPress. The XAMPP server contains all of these. Since it is an open-source application that can be downloaded and installed without any cost. Go to the following URL address to download the XAMPP installer based on your operating system.
Click on the Download button based on your computer configurations.
Run the XAMPP installer and follow the steps to complete the installation of the XAMPP server. The following control panel will appear after installing the XAMPP server successfully. You have to press he Start button for Apache and MySQL to start the web server and database server.
Install WordPress:
Go to the following URL location to download the ZIP file of the WordPress installer. Click on the Download WordPress 6.6.2 button to download the required file.
Unzip the downloaded WordPress installer file and store the wordpress folder inside the htdocs folder of the xampp folder. You have to create a database to store the necessary tables for installing WordPress. Go to the following URL address to open the phpMyAdmin.
Create a database named wordpress to install the WordPress.
Go to the following URL address to start the installation step of the WordPress and select the desired language.
Click on the Let’s go! Button to go to the next step.
Set the database name that you have created earlier. Here, it is wordpress. Set the username o root and empty password. Set the hostname to localhost and table prefix of the WordPress tables. Click on the Submit button to go to the next step.
Click on the Run the Installation button to go the next page of the WordPress installation.
Set the title of the Website, login username, password, and email address. Next, Click on the Install WordPress button to start the installation process.
The following page will appear if the WordPress is installed successfully.
Go o the following URL address to login as administrator and open the WordPress dashboard.
The following page will appear after providing the valid username and password.
Click on the Plugins link to check the installed plugin list. By default, two plugins are installed after installing the WordPress for the first time.
Install WooCommerce Plugin:
There are two ways to install the WooCommerce plugin. You can click on the Add New Plugin button and search the WooCommerce Plugin for installation. Next, you have to click on the Install now button to download and install the plugin.
If you face any problem to install WooCommerce plugin in the previous step then you can follow the second way to install this plugin. In this case, you have to go to the following URL address to download the zip file of the WordPress plugin and click on the Upload Plugin button to upload the downloaded zip file. Next, click on the Install now button.
If you face any problem to install the WooCommerce plugin in both ways mentioned above the you can follow the manual way to install the plugin. In this case, unzip the plugin file and copy the plugin folder in the Plugin folder of the WordPress. Next, go to the dashboard and activate he plugin.
After activating the WooCommerce Plugin, go the following URL to check the front page of the website.
In the next tutorial, the way of configuring the WooCommerce plugin will be shown.