In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install and configure XAMPP for the desktop. Once that's out of the way, we'll install WordPress so that you can have your very own professional, light-weight PHP and WordPress development environment.
As you can probably tell by now, I am a fan of WordPress. Itβs easy to install and style and supported by a great community of developers. It has come a long way from being used strictly as a vanilla blogging platform to become one of the most intuitive, feature-filled open-source content management systems (CMS) on the web.