Install WordPress 4.6.1 on Windows 7 localhost ( XAMPP 7.0.9 - php7 )

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WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 26.4% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2016. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.

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1. Download and install XAMPP 7.0.9 ( with PHP7 ) from official site:
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

2. Download WordPress 4.6.1  sources from official site:
https://wordpress.org/download/

3. Create folder \wordpress XAMPP htdocs folder

C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress

and copy all files from downloaded WordPress 4.6.1 .zip source

4. Run XAMPP Control Panel 

- start Apache
- start Database

5. Open in browser following url to start  WordPress 4.6.1
web installation

http://localhost/wordpress

- select language
- click "Continue" button

6. "Welcome" page

- click "Let's go" button

7. "Database configuration" page of  WordPress 4.6.1 web installation

Now we need to create Database for WordPress 4.6.1

1) Open phpMyAdmin in new browser tab (or window :) ) -

 http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2) Open SQL tab
3) Execute following query

CREATE DATABASE `wordpress` 
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE USER 'wordpress-owner'@'localhost'; 
CREATE USER 'wordpress-owner'@'127.0.0.1';
CREATE USER 'wordpress-owner'@'::1';

SET PASSWORD 
FOR 'wordpress-owner'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('wordpress123$%');
SET PASSWORD 
FOR 'wordpress-owner'@'127.0.0.1' = PASSWORD('wordpress123$%');
SET PASSWORD 
FOR 'wordpress-owner'@'::1' = PASSWORD('wordpress123$%');


GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 
`wordpress`.* TO 'wordpress-owner'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 
`wordpress`.* TO 'wordpress-owner'@'127.0.0.1' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 
`wordpress`.* TO 'wordpress-owner'@'::1' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Go back  to WordPress 4.6.1 installation page

- type Database Name -  wordpress
- type Username -  wordpress-owner
- type Password - wordpress123$%

- click "Submit" button

8. "Run the install"  page of  WordPress 4.6.1 web installation

- click "Run the install" button

9. "Information needed"  page of  WordPress 4.6.1 web installation

- type your info
- click "Install WordPress" button

10. "Success!"  page of  WordPress 4.6.1 web installation

- click "Log In" button

Hooray!!! Enjoy  WordPress 4.6.1  !!!