I just finished installing 50 wordpress sites and altho it is not ready I wanted to share something that you might find usefull if you ever want to install multipal wordpress sites.

One of the first things I used to do after installing is deleting the helo post, the blogroll, change the category name from uncategoriezed to general or news and  add a page for sitemap and contact.

I found a way to do this in the default install….

As wordpress is a great tool but in the end a php script that calls values from a Mysql database I knew it should be possible to change the default installetion.

What I do is this….First collect all my plugins and themes I want to use. Make a folder on my computer where I have the basic structure of wordpress and I already add the plugins fo the folder ->wp-content->plugins

Next go to the file upgrade-functions which is located in wp-admin. At about line 54 you will find a function called wp_install_defaults

Here you find the inserts off the links for the blogroll, category and posts. You can change them but make sure that if you add posts to categories that you also change the post2cat and the linkcount in the add category.

I found a second thing that is very usefll if you are going to play with the install of wordpress. Webserver on a stick…you can install a local version of wordpress on your computer and test everything without fear to brake your server or essing up your hosting account. You can download WOS for free at http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by edwin
Filed under: General