Wordpress empty shell with plugins for an even faster wordpress setup

Wordpress already has the easiest installation process out there.

The part that only takes a little bit of time is getting all of the plugins you want installed. I noticed that I was typically using the same plugins so why not reuse that work and put it into a git repository.  That way whenever I need to setup a new Wordpress site I just clone that repo, create a database and I have all of the plugins from the start.

I packaged up what I found to be the most useful and popular plugins in the Wordpress community. If you have different favorites, sounds good then create a repository for yourself with the ones you prefer.

Currently the repository only includes three themes, classic, default and clean home.  Most of the time custom theme development is done or someone already has in mind what theme they would like to use so I just saw themes as taking up space.

To setup your wordpress site shell into your server and run the clone command below and specify your webroot or domain name that you would like it to exist at.

git clone git://github.com/nrhammond/wordpress-skeleton.git wp.nickhammond.com

Now create a database and remember those credentials since you will need them later for the install.

Go to the location that you installed Wordpress at in your browser(mine was wp.nickhammond.com) and go through the Wordpress installation. Once you are done you now have a complete Wordpress installation with the following plugins:

• Akismet
• All in One SEO Pack
• Cforms
• Extended Comment Options
• Feedburner Plugin
• Google Sitemap Generator
• Popularity Contest
• Search Unleashed
• Sociable
• Wassup
• What Would Seth Godin Do
• Related Posts
• ReCaptcha
• Super Cache

With this approach though you need to make sure you are updating the repository with the newer versions of Wordpress or just run the updater once you install Wordpress.

For more information on this repository visit http://github.com/nrhammond/wordpress-skeleton