Title: Installing wordpress with a mac
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Installing wordpress with a mac

 *  [skinsense](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skinsense/)
 * (@skinsense)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-with-a-mac/)
 * Hi, I am pretty sure this is a noob question, so apologies, but I am completely
   lost as to what to do – I have chosen a theme I think works for my site, downloaded
   it, but it will not open. I have tried to download wordpress but it says the 
   same thing. Am I missing a vital plug in? Is there a tutorial for mac users anywhere
   or any help that can be offered? Any advice, guidance anything is much appreciated,
   thank-you

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-with-a-mac/#post-4274856)
 * If you are trying to install WordPress only on your local computer, see:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP)
 * It won’t be accessible on the internet or on a site that you have on a live server.
 *  [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * (@2ninerniner2)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-with-a-mac/#post-4274873)
 * In addition to what WPyogi says, perhaps this may help clarify the matter.
 * WordPress is not an application/app/exe that you download and “run”; it is a 
   web site framework that needs to be installed on a web server which must also
   have a database server.
 * The link WPyogi provides is to allow you to set up this environment on you Mac
   so that you can install WP, and then your theme that you downloaded, and try 
   it out.
 * To have a WP site accessible from the web, you will need to purchase a domain
   name and a hosting account from one of the many web hosts. You can then either
   install WP there and rebuild it from your local version, or, as most do, copy
   the local version to the hosted location.

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