Title: Creating a Theme without Hosting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Creating a Theme without Hosting

 *  [omerzach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omerzach/)
 * (@omerzach)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-without-hosting/)
 * I’m working on designing my first WordPress theme for a blog I want to start 
   up, but I don’t want to have to begin paying for hosting while I’m still working
   on the design and building up some content. Is there any way of installing WordPress
   virtually somehow so I can do this?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-without-hosting/#post-641260)
 * Try installing XAMPP on your computer.
    Here is a good tutorial: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/)
 *  Thread Starter [omerzach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omerzach/)
 * (@omerzach)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-without-hosting/#post-641262)
 * Thanks a lot, I’ll try installing this on my VMWare Fusion Windows XP Virtual
   Machine, since I’m on a Mac. However, does anyone know of a similar Mac application?
   That would be better form me.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-without-hosting/#post-641264)
 * Why don’t you check out the references in details… before replying????
    [http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html](http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html)(
   third paragraph from the top…)
 *  Thread Starter [omerzach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omerzach/)
 * (@omerzach)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-without-hosting/#post-641269)
 * Sorry, I didn’t see that, I only saw where it said “This is written for Windows
   XP Home. It works for XP Pro, but only if you stop IIS” in the original link.

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