I spent several hours yesterday installing WordPress to my local machine, including going through a mandatory reboot, and ultimately got a "success" message that everything was installed properly. But I can't find a trace of WordPress on my PC! I read the WordPress documentation from top to bottom a couple times, but there was so much to absorb I don't remember any of the particulars, but I seem to recall that there should be a WordPress "control panel" somewhere on my machine that lets me configure things like categories, and add new blogs, but I can't find it anywhere.
I used xampp to install MySQL and Apache on a thumbdrive (in H:\xampp) and I have an htdocs folder inside the xampp folder. From what I read the HTML from the blogs I'm supposed to create will wind up in htdocs.
From http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress I clicked "How to Install on Your Own Computer". For "Step 5" I never saw "Launch in Browser" so at this point I'm completely lost.
here is how I access my local
http://localhost/test/wp-admin
now /test is where I installed wordpress inside the htdocs folder
Thanks. I'm further along, but apparently I didn't quite understand what I was doing when I ran through the installation program. In place of your test I have WordPress/WordPress. So when I executed http://localhost/WordPress/WordPress/wp_admin I got a WordPress "Welcome" screen that claims to be the "famouse five minute WordPress installation process that yesterday took several hours to complete.
It seems to me I went through this screen yesterday. It is asking for a Site Title, Username, Password, and my email address. Then there's an Install WordPress button. But I thought that's what I already did! I'm very confused by the number of times I'm being asked to install WordPress and I'm afraid to click that button for fear that it will start another installation that will last several hours like it did yesterday, and is anythng but five minutes.
Please give me some assurance that I'm not spiraling down a black hole.
Never mind. I waited 20 minutes, didn't get a reply, so took a chance and clicked Install WordPress. I was told WordPress is already installed and it asked me to log in. So I logged in and it asked me to log in again. So I logged in again! Finally the "Dashboard" was displayed.
The Dashboard is prompting me with a yellow banner at the top to update to WordPress 3.0.1, but I thought for sure that that's exactly what I installed yesterday. I'm wondering if this is another redundant prompt. Could it be? How can I check what version of WordPress is installed on my machine?
silverlynx
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Posted 1 year ago #
On the dashboard, the left box says "right now" - at the bottom it says what version of WP and what theme you are running.
FYI, 20 minutes, on a volunteer forum, is ... fast. Even the mods are just glorified volunteers ;) Mostly.
How can I check what version of WordPress is installed on my machine?
On your Dashboard, you should see a section called 'Right Now' with a list of number of posts, pages, cats etc you have on your site.
Near the bottom is "You are using WordPress 3.0.1." Or whatever. Check that :)
FYI, 20 minutes, on a volunteer forum, is ... fast.
20 minutes on any forum is fast! It's just that my original reply was in 12 minutes and I thought the poster might still be around.
I actually did find where my version was before I received these two replies. Strangely, I was at 3.0. So I'm updating as I type. Hopefully it will work.
I'm trying to get calibrated on the tone of the WordPress Website. I don't know whether there is a lightheartedness about it that does things like prompting for installations when it knows it has already been installed, or whether these are just bugs on the Website: failure to check on the state of the user's installation.
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