Your personal best time installing Wordpress? ;)

[denniss]

Hi folks,

I've spent the last three days setting up Wordpress blogs on my sites, and dare I say, I got pretty good at it

Currently my best time for *fully* setting up a blog is 11 minutes (I know... the job is so boring that I started clocking it ) -- that includes uploading the files to server, fully configuring all options, adding proper categories and links, and setting up an automated blog.

While it's a silly question, I was wondering, what's your best time at doing this? :?:

 

[ImFM]

Dennis,

You should try running them all of one code base, that should probably make it quicker. Basically I just tell WordPress to use a simplified version of the host name from the request as a table-prefix.

/FrankM

My WP-Config (extract):

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', '<DATABASE>'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', '<USERNAME>'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', '<PASSWORD>'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this valu
e

// table prefix, for serving multiple installations from the same db.
$table_prefix = ereg_replace('^(www\.)', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
$table_prefix = ereg_replace('\.', '', $table_prefix);
$table_prefix = ereg_replace('\-','', $table_prefix);
$table_prefix = $table_prefix . '_';

 

[tonyfloyd]

Frank -

Where do u put this code?

This code does all the wordpress site ihnstallation for u?

Tony

 

[ImFM]

Tony,

No, you still need to install one instance of wordpress and place the code above in your wp-config.php.

Than you set the DocumentRoot in the webserver to point to this Wodpress directory for all of your WP sites.

/Frank

 

[tonyfloyd]

ok...so i install one site....in that site's wp-config.php file i put the code above in there....then.??.....u got me lost with the documentroot?

also...what if i have differenet themes/plugins for all new additional sites?

 

[McDot]

@Frank

That is an excellent idea!!!
I'll try it on my next multiple installation!!!

Thanks :yes: