It is very convenient to install and configure WordPress on Max OS X Snow Leopard or higher version like Lion, because it already builds an apache2 server and php5 in the system, you just need to configure them and your wordpress site can be run!
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Download the latest version of WordPress (3.3 as of this writing)
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Extract and copy the "wordpress" folder to your "Sites" folder. So, in my case the full path to WordPress is: /Users/jimmy/Sites/wordpress you can rename the folder as your wanted.