I’m on a quest to make my WordPress installs even easier.  Granted, WordPress is pretty simple to install (note the famous WP 5-Minute install) – and even easier when you use Fantastico on your cPanel.  But, in the case where you’re installing multiple blogs – sometimes even several blogs a day – it can get tedious checking all of the permissions, enabling plug-ins, adding themes etc.

So now I’m looking at some of the offerings out there for automating the process of multiple blog installs.  The two that are showing the most promise right now are BackupBuddy and WordPress Desktop.  I have both in hand and will try to put them through their paces over the next week and then come back here and post my findings.

I had some interest in WP Auto Installer by Mass-Automation, but I’ve found them not to be very user friendly (IMO).  Several times I’ve gone to their website only to be greeted by a page telling me they are ‘closed’ and giving a listing of their business hours.  I could be wrong, but I’ve always thought the value in having a company/product web page was that your information was available 24/7/365.  But hey, that could just be me.

So what are YOU using for WordPress automation?