[wp-hackers] WordPress Installation Profiles

[Otto]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Raj <list at expost.org> wrote:
> Drupal has something called installation profiles. The installation profile
> is a small script that you place in the configuration directory. It will be
> picked up by Drupal automatically during the installation process. The
> profile script has the following information:

...

You can customize a WordPress installation by simply making your
custom install script, calling it install.php, and putting it in the
wp-content folder before installation.

Your install.php can do anything it wants, it's just straight included
at the beginning of the wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php script. And
almost all of the functions in upgrade.php are pluggable, so you can
redefine/replace them easily.

-Otto