
That way you can protect your WordPress site from getting potential errors. It lets you create a local webserver where you can test any plugins, themes, and other things before applying them on the live WordPress site.

Apache is used to create a local server while you can use MySQL to manage or save data on a local server for the website.

Xampp comes with Apache and MySQL which are the two main components for its installation. This is a lightweight and cross-platform application that makes it quite simple for web developers to test its plugins, themes, and other things.

XAMPP is a free and open-source tool that is basically used to create a local copy of the site on your computer for testing purposes.
