Wordpress help needed - How can I speed up plug-in installations

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Hi,

We are quite new to using wordpress.

We normally concentrate on basic static html sites, some of which are quite large.

Now, we have a lot of smaller sites we want to build, with perhaps a few hundred pages of content each, over time. (Over 100 new sites).

We want to use wordpress for these sites and can install wordpress and a few plug ins with no real problems. But it takes us too much time.

Can you help with this:

1) Has anyone or any company created a "packaged" wordpress version, that has all of the important wordpress plug-ins already installed?

Then we would only have to do one install for each site, so to speak.

In other words, I am trying to find a way to speed up installing wordpress and the top plug ins.

Does this exist?

If not, does anyone ahve any tips on how to speed up these installations?

2) Finally, what are the important plug ins that we should definitely install, especially for seo purposes, avoiding content spam, and creating a list of subscribers.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
Sam
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    I create a folder on my desktop called 'plugins'. I then load it with all the plugins that I normally use and a few extras just in case.

    Then after I install WP, I just upload and overwrite the existing plugin folder all at once. (You can zip it and upload with cPanel or just use ftp.)

    There is also a WSO that ran last week that shows a way to to have a pre-made database that you can import and tweak and it will also activate and set up your plugins as you normally do. I haven't tried that method yet, but will be trying it soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    What Greg said.

    Also - if you have WHM hosting you can create a skeleton directory that gets put in place for every new site you set up automatically so not even any uploading the files with ftp each time.

    Or use a blogging platform to centrally manage your blogs, many of them have tick boxes for which plugins to install with the blog.

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    • Profile picture of the author TelegramSam
      Originally Posted by VegasGreg View Post

      I create a folder on my desktop called 'plugins'. I then load it with all the plugins that I normally use and a few extras just in case.

      Then after I install WP, I just upload and overwrite the existing plugin folder all at once. (You can zip it and upload with cPanel or just use ftp.)

      There is also a WSO that ran last week that shows a way to to have a pre-made database that you can import and tweak and it will also activate and set up your plugins as you normally do. I haven't tried that method yet, but will be trying it soon.
      Thank you Greg. I think I understand what you mean and I will give it a go.

      Please let me know the wso if you can remember, and if you like it when you try it.

      Best wishes,
      Sam




      Originally Posted by Andyhenry View Post

      What Greg said.

      Also - if you have WHM hosting you can create a skeleton directory that gets put in place for every new site you set up automatically so not even any uploading the files with ftp each time.

      Or use a blogging platform to centrally manage your blogs, many of them have tick boxes for which plugins to install with the blog.

      Andy

      Hello Andy.

      Thanks for your reply. WHM is what I use for my HostGator sites, so it could be a very useful idea.

      I wasn't sure what you meant by "blogging platform to centrally manage your blogs".

      I had a google for the term "blogging platform" and it still isn't clear to be honest. Could you clarify and expand on this? The idea of being able to centrally manage some of this stuff sounds great.

      As an aside, I came across this article when searching for blogging platform. It is about who uses which blog software in the top 100 blogs. Quite interesting:



      http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/15/...top-100-blogs/


      I look forward to your replies.

      Thanks,
      Sam
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