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The moderator moved my post, can anyone here answer this question?

Sounds reasonable for you to offer that opinion Earnoud but, I was hoping to hear from folks with less of a bias on the subject.

In addition to whether PineGrow is a “safe” software tool to use on ones system, the premise could be extended to related areas (since it’s not an open source tool nor is it a product offered not for profit). An additional area that one can be found introduced on the web is how code can be inserted into WordPress themes that a user/purchaser of the theme is not aware and that siphons information from the site’s activities back to a third party.

I’m not implying that the tool would/could do that when generating themes, etc, but it seems like a reasonable question to ask the greater WordPress community. If a healthy number of recognized high-level developers can vouch for the integrity of the product, that could be a good thing for everyone. Correct?

Thanks for those responses.

I tried the suggestions posted by Dion, unfortunately they did not let me get past WP’s configuration page (https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.php).

Then I went back to the phpMyAdmin page, removed the DB and User created for WP and began trying different permentations of creating the user/db that would allow me to proceed past the …/setup-config.php page.

In the spirit of adding what I learned and that worked, I’ll post it here.

When creating a new user/db combination on the create new user page in phpMyAdmin the default Host value type is Any Host which was left unchanged in previous unsuccessful attempts. In a recent attempt, the Host type was changed to Local and the following field was changed to Localhost. (The properly filled out phpMyAdmin/users page is displayed here )

This new variant allowed me to successfully complete the …/setup-config.php page (configuring WP and creating a wp-config.php file) and move to creating my first WP project. No doubt that approach would have seemed obvious to a seasoned WAMP/AMP server guru but for this newbie, it was a learning experience that will be shared for other newbs.

Cheers.