PixoPoint WordPress Unzipper
Published July 14th, 2009 under General
Sorry, but there are better ways to do this now. This project has been deprecated and is no longer in development. This page will be kept online for archival purposes and in case anyone is still interested in the project despite being no longer maintained.
WordPress is known for it’s “five minute installation”. However here at PixoPoint we’re found it takes me a lot longer than five minutes due to thelaborious task of uploading stacks of files via FTP on slow internet connections.
To improve the upload time, we are releasing a very simple script which allows you to upload the raw wordpress.zip file (as downloaded from WordPress.org) along with the script, and when the script is run it is able to decompress the zip file directly onto your webhost. The raw zip file is significantly faster to upload than all of the files on their own.
Download PixoPoint Unzipper for WordPress
We understand that another company is developing a product which will allow you to simply upload a script which when executed will download WordPress for you, provide an easy to use interface for writing your wp-config.php file, delete itself then run the regular WordPress installer. We will post a link back to that product on this blog post when it is available. In the mean time, our simpler tool will hopefully be of use to some of you.
Ryan says:
Dion Hulse is working on a system called WP Quick Install which is a huge improvement over the PixoPoint Unzipper. It is still in alpha stage but will hopefully become a stable product eventually:
http://wpquickinstall.com/
December 26, 2009 at 1:54 am # //
Ryan says:
Alistair Cameron has another system available which may be better than our system too. It is available for download on his site and is well worth taking a look at:
http://www.alistercameron.com/2010/04/09/wordpress-loader-faster-easier/
August 19, 2010 at 11:47 pm # //