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WordPress

Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points
Posted by Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points

Wordpress local install vs 5-min install

I was hoping someone could shed some light on this since I'm finding Wordpress very confusing, okay so there's a quick 5 minute install, and I just did a different install by creating a database? What's the need for the database? And what's the difference between these installs? I'm very confused?

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Cesar,

1-Click install

This is an automated process that's built into many host providers control panels as well as local software such as XAMMP and MAMP, the benefit to using this installer is you don't have to create a database manually, enter the details for it and what not but instead just enter a username and password along with setting a couple of options and you're done.

Manual install

The reason you need to create a database is because you WordPress install needs a place to store data and the most common is an MySQL database which is used on a very large amount of servers all around the world, the manual install requires us to have this setup prior to running the installer so we need to ensure we have details such as the database name, database username and the database password.

Hope that helps.

Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points
Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points

Thanks for the awesome answer Chris! So basically with the 1 click install a database is being created by itself?

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

That's correct, and you're welcome.