I do a lot of Wordpress installations. A ton. Indeed I think I’ve setup about five Wordpress installations in the last two weeks.

And it can be a little bit annoying, having to download the zip file, unzip and then wait for hundreds of tiny files to upload.

Then I discovered EasyWP.

It’s a PHP script that does it all for you.

Just drag it over to your server, access it in your browser and you’ll be presented with the critical setup features (namely database name, username, password and so on).

Type them in and press ‘go’.

The script then downloads the latest version of Wordpress in the background, decompresses the zip and populates the wp-config.php file for you.

Genius.

It means Wordpress setup takes about 2 minutes now…

You can get the script here: http://www.funscripts.net/php-scripts/

And it’s freeware. Nice!

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