allow saying no to sample posts, comments, and links upon install

[jidanni]

Often one finds oneself installing and reinstalling wordpress several
times during testing.

One must manually remove the sample posts, comments, links, etc. each
time, via clicking, to achieve a clean install, "ready to hand over to
the customer."

It would be nice if there was some define()s one could put in say
wp-config.php, to say that we don't want any of these.

But that line would only be relevant to the install, and would be a
waste to leave lying in wp-config.php.

So maybe it should be able to be put in a different file...

(Yes, there might be some underhanded SQL one could run instead to clean the mess up, but such home remedies ... are usually the cause why we end up reinstalling things!)

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Wouldn't it be sweeter to dump those defaults altogether?

[westi]

This is already possible.

Add a file called install.php to wp-content

define a function called 'wp_install_defaults' which does nothing (well you might need the default category)

This will override the defaults at install time.

[westi]

For more info see:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php#L12
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php#L82

[jidanni]

Well, I'd document an easy way to opt-out in wp-config-sample.php. P.S.:

​http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/15/dyi-search-engine-optimization/

In fact, with WordPress, before you even publish your first post, the first test post called Hello World on WordPress issued pings the moment it was installed.

not sure if this is still for real.