Tom Lany

I don’t know how viable creating a general utility would be. If someone could create a utility to do this and then send it out to hosts to customize and add to their servers, that would be cool. I don’t have the codeing knowledge to do this.

Looking at Fantastico might be a good starting place. I have Fantastico on my hosting account. It creates a Word Press blog and database, but it does now allow upgrading of blogs. I do this through FTP, just like I am sure most other users do. Creating a utiliity that actually upgrades Word Press would probably prove more difficult.

Getting a utility like this on hosting accounts would probably expand the Word Press userbase.

Is one-click upgrading a possibility? This could relieve a lot of stress for newer users. Also, it would ensure that everyone upgrades when important security releases are released.

You probably want to delete your database, too. I don’t know how to do this on Yahoo! hosting.

I have a desire for this feature, too. I have been searching for a couple of weeks for a plugin that does registration moderation. I can’t find anything that works. I found a plugin called AuthOnly at:
https://redalt.com/wiki/Authonly+Plugin
You can change the default user profile (when the user signs up) so that these new users don’t have the ability to read the site. It didn’t seem to work well for that purpose, though. It seems to be designed to create different administration roles, not as password protection. It’s a good start, though.