How To Create WordPress Website Offline In 2025? 2 Easy Methods

Do you want to create a WordPress website offline?

WordPress is an open-source CMS that makes it easy for building websites and blogs without needing you to learn any technical skills or special knowledge.

I am sure you have heard that you need a hosting and domain to create a WordPress website but what if I say to you that you can build a WordPress website offline. Without purchasing any domain or hosting.

Yes, you got that right! You can design your WordPress site offline before pushing that to an online server for absolutely free.

That’s what I did when I was in my learning period, I created StayMeOnline offline first and then moved to the online server when I was done with all the customizations and designing.

If you are a beginner who wants to learn how to create a website or blog with WordPress but doesn’t want to get tied up with a hosting subscription then the offline website option is best for you.

There are many tools available that you can use to create a WordPress site offline like:

• Xampp
• Local by Flywheel
• WampServer
• EasyPHP
• MAMP(Only For Mac)
• WNMP

I have tested two methods personally and I am going to show you both today.

Why Do You Need To Create A Offline WordPress site?

If you are someone who wants to learn how to create a website or blog with the WordPress platform but does not want to invest in buying a hosting plan and domain, then building a site offline is the perfect solution for you.

You can build an offline WordPress site to test how WordPress works and sharpen your website building skills without being tied up into a hosting subscription.

If you already have a running WordPress website then you can create its offline version locally on your computer to test the new changes and codes before pushing them on the live site. It can work as a stagging site for you…

Especially, developers use localhost(offline environment) to test their codes.

Advantages of creating an offline WordPress site, all at a glance:

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How To Create WordPress Website Offline Using Xampp?

Xampp is a popular software for installing WordPress offline. If you are planning to learn WordPress before developing your website live then Xampp is the tool you need to use.

I’m going to explain step by step process…

But before moving ahead, you should be known, what is Xampp?

Xampp stands for (X)Cross-platform, (A)Apache, (M)MariaDB,(P)PHP and (P)Perl. It is a very simple and lightweight Apache distribution that makes it easy for developers to create a local web server for testing purposes.

You can use Xampp for creating your WordPress website locally(offline) and once all the developing work is done, you can easily move from local to live server.

Install Xampp On Your Computer

In the first step, you need to download and install Xampp on your computer. You can download Xampp by clicking this link.

I recommend installing the latest version of the Xammp.

Setup WordPress On Xampp

I hope you installed Xampp successfully on your computer. Now open the Xampp and start Apache and MySQL by clicking the Start button.

Have a look at the below image it will help you.

After this, open your browser go to WordPress.org and Download the latest version of WordPress by clicking on Get WordPress button at the right-top corner.

On the next page, hit the Download WordPress 5.3.2(version might be changed in your case) button to download WordPress.

You will get a zip file that you need to extract by Winrar or you can use whatever tool you like.

You’ll get a folder named “WordPress“, all WordPress files are in this folder.

Now copy the WordPress folder that you got after extracting. And go to Windows(C:)>Xampp>htdocs and paste the folder there. 

You have to rename the folder to your site name. This will be your site URL to access the admin panel.

As I renamed it to Demosite then my URL is localhost/Demosite and the admin panel URL is localhost/Demosite/wp-admin.

Now open the browser and type localhost/yoursite. You will see the WordPress setup page.

When you click on Continue after selecting the language, it will show you to keep database details like database name, database username, database password etc.

Create Database For Your Site

You don’t have any database for your site. First, you need to create a database for your site.

For creating a database for your WordPress site, you need to open PHPMyAdmin which you can do by going to localhost/phpmyadmin. It will open PHPMyAdmin of Xampp…

Click on New to create a new database.

Enter your database name and click on the Create button.

Now you need to assign a user to your database, you can easily do this by clicking on the Database name you created and then Privileges at the top.

Click on Add user account link to create a new user for your newly created database.

You need to fill in details like username, hostname, password etc… for creating a new user, make sure to note down details because you will need them again.

Scroll down and make sure to Grant All Privelliages and at last, click on Go.

Now you are ready with your database details. Click on Let’s Go on the WordPress setup page. Then you will see another screen where you have to fill in your database details.

Enter the database details…

If you fill in all details correctly then you will see a success screen that will be looking like this…

Click on the Run the Installation button and move to the final steps, On the next screen where you have to fill in basic information about your sites like Site Title, Username, Password and Email address.

Make sure that the Search Engine visibility box is unchecked then final click on Install WordPress.

You did it, you have installed your WordPress website offline successfully. Now you can log in with your login details.

Visit your website by entering localhost/yoursitename and for your WordPress dashboard go to localhost/yoursitename/wp-admin

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How To Create WordPress Website Offline Using Local by Flywheel?

Local by Flywheel is a new tool by Flywheel hosting that allows you to install WordPress locally on your computer for learning and testing purposes.

I recently came to know about this and found it very easy to use for building WordPress offline websites.

Here are the steps that you should follow to install WordPress locally using Local by Flywheel:

Download & Install Local by Flywheel

You can easily download Local by Flywheel from their official website or you can click here to download…

It will ask you to choose the platform you want to install it on. It supports Mac, Windows and Linux…

Once you select the OS, it will ask you a few personal details like First name, last name, work email and phone number and at last, click on Get It Now.

It will start downloading Local by Flywheel, once it is successfully downloaded. Install that on your computer.

Once it is installed successfully, open Local by Flywheel. It will ask you to enter your new website name. Enter your site’s name and click on Continue.

In the next step, you need to choose your environment. I recommend you to select Preferred and click on Continue.

In the next step, you need to enter your WordPress username, password and email. Once you filled in everything, click on Add Site to create this site successfully.

Congrats, you have successfully created your WordPress website offline.

In the next window, you will see all the details about your WordPress website. You can see on the window there is an admin button to visit the WordPress admin dashboard and a View site button to visit your live website.

There is an awesome feature that I like most in Local, you can also let others visit your website by sharing the live link.

Yes, you can have a live link to your website and share it with others too. For this, you need to enable the Live Link from the bottom of the screen.

Once the live link is enabled, your website is live on the Flywheel server so now you can now see your website live on this URL.

Isn’t it too easy to create a WordPress site locally using Local by Flywheel?

Yes… this is a more simple use tool for building a WP site offline than Xampp or other tools available.

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FAQs On How To Create A WordPress Site Offline

Here are some frequently asked questions that people are asking around how to build a WordPress site offline. These questions will help you to get all your queries solved if any are left…

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It’s Your Turn

On WordPress installed locally, you get all the features that a normal WordPress site on an online server get.

You can install WordPress offline and design your site. Once you are done with the designing and customizations, you can easily move that to an online server.

If you are someone who wants to learn WordPress and how it works then you can do it by installing it offline without needing to buy a hosting or domain.

I have mentioned two methods to create a WordPress site offline, let me know in the comments which one you liked most.