Need help with loading Wordpress.org and initializing XAMP

I'm not sure how much I'm helping, but let's clear a few things.

Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com are different things, by the same people. Wordpress.com is a giant public wordpress network. For some things it's free to use, other things cost money on Wordpress.com that you could do for free with wordpress.org. Also, you're limited on things you can do one wordpress.com like installing certain plugins.

Wordpress.org is just where you download the core wordpress files, and than you are responsible to host those files yourself somewhere online. This is where a hosting account and cPanel or another server interface comes into play. You can pretty much do whatever you want with the Wordpress.org version, as far as themes, plugins, etc.

First decide if you want to go with the Wordpress.com version or the wordpress.org version. If you go with the .com version you do not need XAMPP or Filezilla. If you go with the Wordpress.org version, you'll need XAMPP, but you shouldn't need Filezilla at the moment.

Filezilla will be used later to move your Wordpress files from your local computer, to a web server so they can be accessed pubically at your domain. In the meantime, that's why you've installed XAMPP, which is just a package software that installed Apache and MySQL. Apache will execute the PHP code, and MySQL will execute the database queries, both necessary to have a functional Wordpress site.

XAMPP should have installed itself in your hard drive. You can find it by going to Computer >> (C:) Drive. From there you should have a xampp folder, inside of there you should have a htdocs folder. Inside of this folder is where you want to install your wordpress.

I would recommend making a subfolder in here to keep it clean. Call it what you want, like the project name. Let's pretend the project name is just wordpress. Paste all of your wordpress.org downloaded files here.

You need to create the database, so back in Xampp, with MySQL running, click the admin button, which should open myPHPAdmin. In myPHPAdmin, create a new database, and for cleanliness, I give this database a user and password too, Which can be done after creating the database using the Privileges tab in the top menu area.

After that's done, go back to your wordpress core, open wp-config-sample.php and resave it as wp-config.php. And finally in a text editor, give it your database name, username, and password. Most of the other settings here you can leave as default.

Finally, make sure Apache is running in your Xampp dashboard, and in a browser's URL box, type `localhost/wordpress and that should initial the wordpress script to finish installing the database. If your folder's name was different, than that would change the URL. It's always localhost/whatever-folder-you-want-to-us-here as a structure.

Hope that helps.