WordPress Installation Tips

If you are like me, using WordPress as your main frame, you’d understand how annoying it is to remove default data that comes with installation. WordPress automatically throws in a post, a comments and some default links. Instead of deleting them manually, I customized the installation file to avoid putting in the default data. In this post, I will show you how to acheive this and hopefuly save you some installation time.

Download customized installation file here ( WordPress1.5 )

Download customized installation file here ( WordPress 2.0)

or do it manually

For WordPress 1.5 and 2.0

1) Open installation.php from wp-admin folder.

2) At the bottom of the file, find Now drop in some default links

3) Remove the following lines as needed.

Remove this code to remove default links

// Now drop in some default links
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->linkcategories (cat_id, cat_name) VALUES (1, '".$wpdb->escape(__('Blogroll'))."')");
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/', 'Donncha', 1, 'http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/feed/', '');");
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://zengun.org/weblog/', 'Michel', 1, 'http://zengun.org/weblog/feed/', '');");
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://boren.nu/', 'Ryan', 1, 'http://boren.nu/feed/', '');");
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://photomatt.net/', 'Matt', 1, 'http://xml.photomatt.net/feed/', '');");
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://zed1.com/journalized/', 'Mike', 1, 'http://zed1.com/journalized/feed/', '');");
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://www.alexking.org/', 'Alex', 1, 'http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-rss2.php', '');");
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://dougal.gunters.org/', 'Dougal', 1, 'http://dougal.gunters.org/feed/', '');");


Please leave this code as is. Do not edit this.

// Default category
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->categories (cat_ID, cat_name, category_nicename, category_count, category_description) VALUES ('0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Uncategorized'))."', '".sanitize_title(__('Uncategorized'))."', '1', '')");


Remove this code to remove first post

// First post
$now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$now_gmt = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, post_category, post_name, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, comment_count, to_ping, pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES ('1', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!'))."', '', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Hello world!'))."', '0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('hello-world'))."', '$now', '$now_gmt', '1', '', '', '')");

$wpdb->query( “INSERT INTO $wpdb->post2cat (`rel_id`, `post_id`, `category_id`) VALUES (1, 1, 1)” );

Remove this code to remove default comment

// Default comment
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_date, comment_date_gmt, comment_content) VALUES ('1', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Mr WordPress'))."', '', 'http://wordpress.org/', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Hi, this is a comment.
To delete a comment, just log in, and view the posts\' comments, there you will have the option to edit or delete them.'))."')");


Remove this code to remove default page

// First Page
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, post_category, post_name, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_status, to_ping, pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES ('1', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.'))."', '', '".$wpdb->escape(__('About'))."', '0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('about'))."', '$now', '$now_gmt', 'static', '', '', '')");
generate_page_rewrite_rules();


4) Save it and you are done :)