What is Wordpress?

Wordpress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and blog. allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end CMS and components.
The Content Management System (CMS) is software which keeps all the data such as text, photos, music, documents etc, and is made available on your website. It helps in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website.

How to Download wordpress ?

When you open the link https://wordpress.org/download/

OR

open the link https://wordpress.org/latest

You can download the zip and tar archives directly from these URLs:
➤ http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
➤ http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

How to install wordpress ?

Create Store Database
Wordpress requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database with user/password (for e.g. User as "root" and password as "root" or else you can set as per your convenience).

Setup wizard

Step (1): Extract the downloaded Wordpress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost.
Step (2): Open your browser and navigate to your Wordpress file path, then you will get the first screen of the Wordpress installer as shown in the below screen. In our case the path is localhost/< Your_wordpress_folder >. Select your language for the Wordpress and click on Continue.
Step (3): In this step, you can view the information needed for the database before proceeding with wordpress installation. Click on Let's go!
Step (4): Here, you have to enter the information about the MYSQL database as described in the screen below.
Database Name : Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for Wordpress.
Username : Enter the user name of your MySQL database.
Password : Enter the password which you had set for MySQL Database.
Database Host: Write the host name, by default it will be localhost.
Table Prefix : It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. It takes the default value.
After filling all information, click on Submit button.
Step (5): Here, the Wordpress checks the database setting and gives you the confirmation screen as shown below. Click on Run the install
Step (6): Here, you have to enter the information about administrative.