WordPress is famous for its 5-minute install, yet that number varies with how long it takes you to upload the files via FTP, but in reality, WordPress is lightning fast to install.
Now Dion Hulse from Australia has published the first public version of his WordPress QI (WordPress Quick Install), which you can see here: http://wpquickinstall.com/
He has created a short video that shows him upload the single file installer.php (yes, just the one file, and it is about 65kb compressed), and in 3 minutes and 24 seconds the video shows the entire process from start to finish, including logging in and publishing the first post on the blog.
The information is still sketchy but it looks to be a very amazing installer once it’s done.
I have yet to try it out myself, but especially the features in the installer makes me want to take a deeper look at it, such as enabling pretty Permalinks by default, and deleting the default comment and default post.
Lars Koudal - WordPress Developer and SEO consultant based in Barcelona.
It looks very promising; but like you said, the information is still sketchy – but it is still in an early beta stage so that’s understandable.
I like how much Dion has compressed his code:
“Over 14,000 lines of code (Much from the WordPrss Libararies)
520KB worth of code before my custom Builder/minimiser hits it
228KB worth of code after my custom minimiser hits it
65KB worth of code after Gzip’d and Base 64′d for distribution.”
(From his announcement post)
Would also be cool if you could include a settings.ini file or something, where you set the default values for the blog. I know, it would kill the one-file mentality, but it would be pretty slick, much like auto updating Windows installations by network admins that can set default values when creating new accounts.
very nice and this installer is very important for blogger but its sketchy..
I have yet to try it myself, so I will not comment on its sketchiness yet until I get to it on my to-do list.
As a plugin author I know how many pitfalls there can be