Comments on: WordPress: Useful Default Configuration Settings Via Plugin

By: Jacob V

Jacob V — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:05:11 +0000

But... THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!

(sorry for the caps lock but it was intended)

So nice!

By: Benjamin Charity

Benjamin Charity — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:10:57 +0000

Can anyone help me transfer this into something that can be triggered by the theme? So that when they enable my theme, certain defaults are set that the theme needs? My PHP isn't too strong so any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:48:49 +0000

Don't forget register_uninstall_hook()
to delete your values as well:
delete_metadata()
delete_option()

Keep you system clean

By: Omer Greenwald

Omer Greenwald — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:53:30 +0000

Very awesome! thanks

By: Philip Downer

Philip Downer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0000

Looks like there are several different ways to skin a cat in this case. Since the majority of my WordPress developments starts with a custom theme framework, I generally keep a sandbox environment that contains all my basic plugins, functions and theme files.

Then, when I'm ready to start a new project, I'm able to simply duplicate the database, as well as the file/folder structure to get rolling.

All settings, users, posts, etc. are kept intact.

By: David Page

David Page — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:08:01 +0000

@Michael The solution @Westi indicates doesn't modify core files, the install file is located in wp-content/
I find it's really useful to pre-setup new installations with a set of pages, couple of users, change the WP default options, activate a different theme, even pre-activate plugins and set their options. Everything that @Jessi above wants and more.

By: Jessi Hance

Jessi Hance — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:52:01 +0000

Does anyone know how you would change the name of the dummy page and turn off comments and pings on it?

And how to set the Reading settings to use that page for the front page?

And even how to create another page called Blog and set that for the posts page?

I don't ask for much, do I.

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:17:23 +0000

Got to admit, hadn't thought of either this or the install.php method before.

Insanely useful for regular installers.

By: Florian Weber

Florian Weber — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:04:31 +0000

I'm installing blogs weekly, awesome plugin. It doesn't take much time to change default settings but it sums up...great little helper!

By: Pulsuz Sayt

Pulsuz Sayt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:28:11 +0000

Hi, I use WPMU and want to create default widget settings for newly created sub blogs. I want to create deafult widget settings for "text" widget as want to write something into to newly created blog`s sidebar. I use this code to auto add widget: 'My Categories' )); update_blog_option($blog_id, "sidebars_widgets", array("sidebar-1" => array("text"),)); } add_action('wpmu_new_blog', 'default_widgets'); ?> But this widget adds to sidebar empty. Can you help me to add some text to this text widget as default: $title and $text