It is an easy to install and use local server software made to help PHP developers to build and test their website on local Mac before publishing to a live server or website. MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL and PHP. As this local WordPress installer does not come with a Mac OS X version, in this guide, we will show you how to install WordPress locally on Mac using MAMP. Recently we published an article about how to install WordPress on your Windows computer in 1 minutes using InstantWP.