Wordpress plugins

[melvinm]

Hi Warriors,

is there a way to get all your plug in's into a new blog each time you start a new blog? I am hoping there is an easier way than installing all the plug in's from scratch.

Cheers
Melvin

[mywebwork]

Aloha Melvin

A couple of possibilities spring to mind, but I'm not sure if they would be any easier than the way you do it now.

1 - Create a folder on your local workstation and place all of your Plugins into it. When you install a new blog you can then FTP the entire folder contents to your WordPress Plugin directory. Of course you still will need to activate and configure the Plugins.

2 -Configure your existing WordPress blog with all of your desired plugins. Copy all of the files from the server to a folder on your workstation. Now to create a new blog you only need to copy the files up to the new server, create a MySQL database and adjust your WP configuration file for your new database.

I use something similar to the first method to add common Plugins and Themes to new WordPress blogs.

Bill

[Anders Eastgrove]

Here's what I do.

I keep an updated clean install of Wordpress with all common plugins I want, configured the way i want.

When you want a new install with "everything" just make a backup of that install and it's database. Upload the files to your new domain, restore the database to the new one you've set up for the domain and then change the necessary paths in wp-config.php.

Ta-da! you should have a fully functioning fresh copy of your clean install with everything configured running on your new domain.

I keep the clean updated wp installation on a local linux box but if you dont want to play around with that you could just make a subdomain somwhere, like wp.yourdomain.com and have your clean install there. You can also restrict the subdomain so it's only accessable by you.

-Anders

[Kenneth Fox]

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[SiteFlipRemix]

With the new Wordpress 2.7 you can install plugins in 3 clicks. I find it to be very fast, and can install and activate numerous plugins very quickly. But if you needed to setup like 4 websites in a day. That is a different story, and you will probably want to follow the advice of other posters.

[Sam Rodrigo]

Hi Melvin,

I hope you want to explore another option...

1. Create your ideal WP install on a folder called online_public/wp_phi for example.

2. Then make a back up of the db as well, and put that file in the above folder.

3. Run an SSH client like Putty, and log in.

4. Then copy all files from /wp_phi to /wp_alpha for example.

5. Since you don't download anything, and this is a server operation, things will happen fast...

6. Then restore the WP install and back up db.

The first time may take some learning and an afternoon. However, when you do this once or twice, you'll never look back.

Success,
Sam

[DerrickMarkotter]

I've found that the quickest way to do this is to compress the plugins I use into a *.zip file, upload the *.zip file into the plugins folder on the server and then uncompress the *.zip file using CPanel.

It's much quicker uploading one big file than dozens of small files, because every upload has to be negotiated between the FTP client and the server.

I still find that the plugins I use have inevitably been updated since I downloaded them, so I have to update them from the WP dashboard - at least this is much easier than it used to be!

[melvinm]

Hi Warriors,

Thank you all for the different techniques.WF rocks ! I have learned more from this forum than anywhere else.

I am inclined to try out two of the methods a) WP clone ( I am really lazy) and b) keep a zip file of all plug in's and just upload it.

Thanks again for the inputs.

Cheers

Melvin

[Chris Kent]

Just copy all the plugins to the plugin folder on your hard disk. Then zip eveything up using 7-zip. When expanded on your site this will give 755\644 folder/file permissions.