How to create a WordPress repack?

  • Hi there!

    I would like to create a re-packed version of our lovely WordPress.
    My goal is to have a WordPress that one can download and install, and find some plugins pre-activated and some options pre-customized into it.

    Any suggestion about where I could start to do it?
    Thank you in advance,
    Maurizio

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  • Install a new WP.
    Install the plugins, make the changes you need.

    Export the database.
    Download all the WP files and changes you have made.

    Zip the whole lot.

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    Unzip
    Upload the files
    Import the database and then, before doing anything else at all, open the database with phpmyadmin and change the siteurl and home values in _options

    Then just visit the blog. No install, just go to it’s web address.

    I’ve used that technique before.

    Thread Starter mauriziopetrone

    (@mauriziopetrone)

    Thank you Podz, but that’s not what I’ve been looking for…
    Of course the method you’ve suggested works, but I would like to let users INSTALL that package as well, without dealing with DB import and other PhpMyAdmin stuff.
    I mean, a true re-packing.

    Maybe I will have to change some WP files… but what ones?

    install.php and any it calls as that is what sets it all up.

    you can also can take a look at the multi-wp (wordpress hosts)! Then users can make there own blog at your service!

    Thread Starter mauriziopetrone

    (@mauriziopetrone)

    Uhm… klifix2, what’s exactly “multi-wp”? Something like blog_name.www.remarpro.com?

    Anyway, i’ve seen that into install.php there are the SQL queries that put default values into wp-database… so, I just need to change them in order to fit my needs (plugins, options, themes etc)

    Something like that yes, but only on your own server. I did it for a while and it worked fine. The reason why I stopped it was because I sold my domain and he stopped the WP bloghost. But when I was reading this topic closer I guess this isn’t what your looking for , right?

    Thread Starter mauriziopetrone

    (@mauriziopetrone)

    But when I was reading this topic closer I guess this isn’t what your looking for , right?

    …right ??

    Thank again to Podz for the hint about which file I had to modify ??

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