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  Jesse

  3 years ago

  nice. at the rate we've rolled out blogs that could save us a ton of time.
  
  I think I'm starting to get a very good idea of why Jeremy hired you :)
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  Ingrid

  3 years ago

  Heh heh, I'm happy my job can't be automated ... ;)
  
  (Yet.)
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  Aaron

  3 years ago

  We're working on it. ;)
  
  Just kidding.
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  HART (1-800-HART)

  3 years ago

  Sounds adventurous. What about the other stuff? Sidebar maintenance, network codes, ad codes, feedburner, links unique to the blog, etc etc etc.?
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  Aaron

  3 years ago

  Can't be done in a single swoop. Some people get YPN. Some Adsense. This is just a rough out of the box deployment to get the ball moving.
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  HART (1-800-HART)

  3 years ago

  It's never really a 5-minute installation, although it's been getting easier and easier to install a new blog and even upgrade - it still takes time. For me, it's mostly the adsense, sidebar and feedburner stuff as I just have one blog opened in another tab. But, I've got a batch of 5 new ones being created early July .. perhaps I can give this a try. Any time saving is good. Keep Creating neat plugins!
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  Aaron Brazell

  3 years ago

  Adsense, Feedburner, theme layout, etc... not really a WordPress issue, is it? WordPress is really a 5-minute install. Sure you have to deal with Kubrick and Matt and Donccha in the blogroll, but it is alive and functioning, no? ;)
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  HART (1-800-HART)

  3 years ago

  All part and parcel :)
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  Jeremy Wright

  3 years ago

  Hart, not really. Your issue is creating a centrally managed Theme. Which Wordpress is happy enough for you to do. With a centrally managed Theme, all that other stuff would come out of it. Once you had it, an unattended install would have your blog, and theme, setup in seconds. Without the theme, though, all this can do is install WP :)
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  HART (1-800-HART)

  3 years ago

  Hi Jeremy .. I've gone through the centrally managed themes (my 8 battling sites) where I spent the time on one theme, then copied it as part of the theme of the other 7 sites. Then you have to activate plugins including some with modifications to templates (eg tag warrior), all the feedburner chicklets. I still plan to give this plugin a try next month with the new 5 - but, I think I will just start from scratch on each one with a list of things to do next to my computer, instead of a list what to change or modify.
  
  It's good that you got Aaron working for the benefit of all of us too :) Thanks.
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  Aaron

  3 years ago

  It’s good that you got Aaron working for the benefit of all of us too :) Thanks.

  
  All part of the spirit of open source. We use open source servers, an open source database server, open source blogging tools, so the stuff I write is usually in that spirit.
  
  And actually, I just "did" this to make my work easier. Not anything b5 commissioned me for. :)
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