For better development experience and high satisfaction I suggest you to install wordpress at your home computer. No matter you have only a laptop, old PC or luxury macbook you’ll need home computing stuff.
Here the simple step by step guide for install wordpress for home development that also known as localhost :
Install Development Tools
I’m a big fan of latest php version, thats why I use wamp that offer latest php version (as time of write this post latest version is php 5.3.0).
1. Download latest version of wamp from wamp download page.
I download wampserver 2.0i that contains :
- Apache 2.2.11
- PHP 5.3.0
- MySQL 5.1.36
- Phpmyadmin
Save it to my document or other place.
2. Run wamp installer (double click exe file)