Installing WordPress locally

If the other answers make sense I apologise for how patronising my answer must sound – but if they don’t make sense perhaps my N00B style answer will 🙂

You can’t mess up the installation of wordpress on your live server if you are simply developing a theme on the localhost installation (a skin is known as a theme when it comes to wordpress)

Once you have developed the theme on localhost you then Zip the theme up and upload it through the themes management menu in your live wordpress installation. There are other ways to do it, but I find this way far easier and less prone to user errors.

BUT – you don’t do it by downloading everything from your live site to localhost

try reading this page http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP

or google “install wordpress locally MAMP“

This should walk you through the steps to install it

Creating the theme you want – that’s a whole other kettle of fish, but again try using google to look for some tutorials to help you walk through it – or find a theme that you love that someone else has already created

Hope this helps even if only a little

Related Posts:

  1. Is it feasible to build and update a WordPress website offline?
  2. Root Sage theme styles are not working!
  3. How to first edit in local WordPress editor on page and the add code?
  4. When I save changes for css and js in my WP localhost env windows 10 the changes don’t take effects immediately!
  5. Testing localhost WordPress site over LAN with iPad, iPhone
  6. Activating theme in local MAMP installation results in HTTP ERROR 500
  7. Saving Permalinks Results in 403 MAMP (Windows)
  8. WordPress theme Modifications not showing up on live server
  9. Software for WordPress Theme and Plugin Development? [closed]
  10. How to detect mobile devices and present them a specific theme?
  11. Using wp_add_inline_style without a stylesheet
  12. Should we use get_template_part() in functions files instead of include_once?
  13. Reset positions of metaboxes in admin
  14. Add a dropdown to theme customizer
  15. design and development workflow
  16. How to control initial wp_head() output?
  17. enqueue script for specific shortcode
  18. The difference between calling wp_enqueue_scripts to load scripts and styles in custom theme
  19. WordPress twentytwenty theme inline css overriding css body
  20. What is the problem if I use CDN in my WordPress parent theme(built using bootstrap)?
  21. How can I insert default widgets when my theme is activated (similar to what twenty eleven does)?
  22. Why might $input (Settings API) be coming through empty?
  23. add generated stylesheet from parent theme after child-themes style.css
  24. date_i18n() issue
  25. Creating Page Based on Category
  26. How to check if post has any tag?
  27. LOST in WP Template Hireachy
  28. Merging PHP download script into `functions.php`
  29. Should use widgets in this case?
  30. Changing the entire control choices using wp.customize with JavaScript
  31. Static Front Page problem
  32. Enabling Default Widgets in a Custom Theme
  33. Get last modified date for menu link
  34. A theme that follows all the best practices to learn from?
  35. get_post() function returns post even if it is trashed
  36. WordPress how to override function adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head() in link-template.php the correct way
  37. Can wordpress run in root of existing php site with no theme on index.php but all other WP posts/pages?
  38. How to regenerate thumbnails when they’re stored on S3
  39. customizing the_password_form filter
  40. CSS won’t style output of wp_nav_menu() correctly
  41. after_setup_theme, Global Variable and Theme Customizer
  42. How to make WP admin recognize a newly created child theme?
  43. searchform.php override not working
  44. Can’t show custom post thumbnail sizes as background images
  45. Load child template based on parent
  46. Theme translation not applying
  47. How to add filter the post thumbnail before save in database?
  48. Easy lightbox effect inside of dashboard widget
  49. Add, edit specific CPT with custom role
  50. how to display search term in the template full site editor
  51. How to add new page to wordpress theme through coding?
  52. Dynamically generated wordpress customizer options?
  53. Filter categories used with Custom Structure Permalink
  54. Code to determine WP version check
  55. “Theme without sidebar.php is deprecated”
  56. How to escape html generate by a loop
  57. get_term_link is Ending to single.php
  58. making my theme multisite compatible?
  59. wp e-commerce – theme problem – why won’t it load wpsc-single_product.php? [closed]
  60. Extending Twenty Eleven Theme
  61. my excerpts lack the ‘more’ link
  62. Moving post title down the page / Removing a block from a post
  63. I want to change background image of my wordpress site on particular post type
  64. how to retrieve the image title for image Post Format
  65. Iris color picker in custom theme option page not saving value
  66. Hestia Child theme creation
  67. How to add custom class to get_avatar()
  68. Want to add cart and a search bar in the right of logo line
  69. how do i develop a global nav and local nav to be wordpress dynamic?
  70. Twenty Twelve Author not displaying
  71. How to make a theme unable to be used on a multisite network?
  72. Default PHP document / names needed for a WordPress theme?
  73. How can I sort my loop based on meta data, using a form?
  74. What is the_permalink() on a category page?
  75. How to modify theme content in Thematic?
  76. How to determine when my theme is deactivated?
  77. 1 post per category on homepage and counting those posts
  78. if (has_custom_menu())?
  79. Custom themes that won’t work when theme is changed
  80. only the first post is shown
  81. wordpress can’t find single-project page
  82. Is there a way to add classes to a page when using a Gutenberg reusable block as page layout?
  83. How to show some of category in wordpress
  84. using themename_the_custom_logo() in template-tags?
  85. How to make the media library searchable by image title
  86. How do I build a WordPress Profile/Author Header?
  87. Custom page template not showing on page creation
  88. Create settings field on button click
  89. Undefined index: custom_sidebars
  90. How To Customise WordPress Comment Submit Button?
  91. Next/Previous post navigation
  92. Single Featured Image Repeating
  93. How to remove menu from WP-Admin menu
  94. apply_filters to featured image
  95. How do I move menu to the bottom in Custom Community theme?
  96. How do I get information about a page, such as featured image, except, and title?
  97. How can I install my custom-made theme on a wordpress.com blog? [closed]
  98. A problem in loading index.php
  99. .submenu class missing in output from wp_nav_menu
  100. What is the point of using archive.php instead of index.php?