[wp-hackers] Flexible Installation Process

[Trevor Turk]

--- Douglas Daulton <apakuni at gmail.com> wrote:

> This flexible installer would be useful for more
> than just il8n folks.  It
> would also prove extremely helpful for folks who
> maintain a wide variety of
> WP installs on different servers for different
> folks.
> 
> So, if I want every site I create to have Spam
> Karma, WP-Contact and 4 other
> plugins installed, activated and configured a
> particular way, the
> create_defaults() function could go along way
> towards this goal.
> 
> I was going to create a custom WP distro for myself
> that would address this
> need, but it makes much more sense to have the guts
> of the "roll your own"
> subsystem as part of the core.  Then, everyone can
> take advantage of the
> toolset.

Not to mention this would make it much much easier to
publish your own "plugged in" versions of Wordpress -
like Alex King does:

http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/content.php

- Trevor