Cleancats

This is a very crude mass category deletion script for WordPress. I recently inherited a WordPress site with more than 6000 categories. After deleting a ton of old posts, we were left with more than 4000 unused categories, and I needed a way to remove them quickly. Couldn’t find a plugin up to the task, so wrote this. Very crude, but effective. Not a plugin, but a small WP companion script. See instructions in the comment at top of script.

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WP-Create

Super fast way to install WordPress for clients, via subversion. Yes, users can often self-install via Fantastico or similar programs, but what guarantee do you have that they’ll upgrade as soon as new releases become available? Letting users run old versions of web software is a great way to get hacked. Take control of users’ installations by checking them out via svn (with this script) and managing them with wp-mass-upgrade.

This script performs the following tasks:

  • Gather installation info
  • Create install dir and check out a copy of WordPress
  • Create database, db user, set db privs via external .sql file
  • Create WP config file
  • Create upload dir and set filesystem permissions
  • Generate array line for wp-mass-upgrade.sh

Final setup is done via browser.

Download wp-create 1.0

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