Comments on: Localhost WordPress on MAMP

By: Tom Marsh

Tom Marsh — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:24:25 +0000

That was fast and easy! Thank you for making that simple and straightforward! Much appreciated.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:10:00 +0000

I’ll try to put something together for you later this weekend. Thanks for the note.

By: Jeffe Aronson

Jeffe Aronson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:45:55 +0000

So, clearly, after I did the install (I’m computer literate, but not blog literate…yet.) the final instruction (11) got me. Real web accessible WordPress install? Localhost blog? Export file? All of sudden, at the very end, it seems that I’m going to need a book or instructor to build a blog with WordPress on my Mac, rather than the virtual plug and play of the (not working) blogspot account I set up yesterday. Are there any ways to make it easy like Blogspot but not have to spend hours becoming a blog-programmer? Thanks.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:34:39 +0000

UPDATE: I figured it out. I read that wp needs to be installed into the “htdocs” folder inside of MAMP, inside of the apps folder. I also changed my Preferences inside of MAMP to “Reset MAMP ports” and it changed the Apache Port to 80 and they MySQL Port to 3306 and in my browser I put in “http://localhost/wordpress” and everything works perfect. I am new at this so don’t know if it’s the right way but it works to work locally.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:59:40 +0000

I’m just now getting back to this from sept. 2. What I meant in my previous post was that the pictures/background art doesn’t show up locally, even the wordpress icons. No matter which theme I choose, they don’t show up but the text is formatted. Any ideas? Oh, also to get mine to show up my path is : http://localhost/wordpress/ (a bit different from your example)

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Stephen, You can check Step #2 in this older post for the template stub, or go here. If you need more help, post another comment.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:44:30 +0000

I’m a little late to the party, but I need some help. Hope someone is still around. I followed your instructions and got it to work. Only problem is the templates don’t show up. I activate them and the path is right but the page is white. This happens to template I place in the theme folder and to the default templates. Has anyone ever heard of this problem? If so, is there a fix? Thanks so much.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:39:46 +0000

The export only takes the text. You must manually move the images. Open one of your posts and you should see that the image is found on the original WordPress site. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to move those images. At least, I don’t know of one.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:13:53 +0000

Thanks for a great tutorial how to do this. I have a question. I did all of this and for some reason my photos aren’t showing up in the “themes” index.php or even the admin little clipart or pretty much any picture. Login and everything works, makes it kinda hard to make changes when I can’t see much. Is it a .css problem?

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:17:37 +0000

Just install the same plug-ins that you have on your local machine and do an import. The only problem will be the image files, which you’ll have to move over to the new site.