WP Express For Mac

WP Express offers you the possibility to deploy WordPress websites on local servers with ease, without having to worry about downloading the appropriate resources or setting up databases.

To be able to use WP Express, you need to make sure that you have a development environment, such as MAMP, up and running. Note that you need to provide the username, the password, the hostname, and the port number in order to connect to the database.

Worth mentioning is that the port number used by applications such as MAMP or MAMP Pro might be different than the one used by default within WP Express. Just navigate to the General tab of your MAMP installation to view details about such matters.

Moreover, the MAMP MySQL servers use the “root” username by default, with the same password, but keep in mind that you can change the passkey. Once a connection is established, you can easily create a new database.

Once you connect to a server and create a database, WP Express prompts you for the WordPress site title and URL, the admin email, username, and password, and even allows you to choose the installation language.

As soon as you press the “Install WordPress” button, WP Express goes online and downloads the latest WordPress version and also takes care of the installation procedure. Keep in mind that you can also apply custom themes or plug-ins to your WordPress installation via the Bundles panel included in the configuration module.

Bottom line, WP Express offers you the option to quickly deploy WordPress on a local server by relying on a development environment such as MAMP.

The WP Express utility tries to make the configuration procedure as streamlined as possible, downloads the latest WordPress version on its own, and installs the resources files without requiring any additional user intervention.