Create a WordPress installation Zip with theme and plugins installed

Question

Is it possible to prepare a customized WordPress installation zip file which will include a custom default theme and a number of other plugins already installed?

If it is, I would appreciate a hint in the right direction since I've been banging my head against the wall on this for 2 days now :)

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think the cleanest solution is to just ship your theme with a list of plugins that it requires, which in turn will allow you to download and activate them all with a click. This means that the action would be done automatically.

To be able to require plugins to be downloaded and installed programatically, check out this compact library - TGM Plugin Activation .

It allows you to specify plugins that should be installed from Wordpress official respository, as well as your own local copies, which can ship with your theme's zip file.