Title: Programmatic setup? Programmatic admin calls?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Programmatic setup? Programmatic admin calls?

 *  [JamesManning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesmanning/)
 * (@jamesmanning)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatic-setup-programmatic-admin-calls/)
 * _This may be the wrong forum to post to. If so, please point me to the right 
   one. 🙂_
 * I’m trying to see if there are any existing programmatic interfaces for basically
   setting up a new blog.
 * Creating an empty MySQL database and going through the initial web interface 
   for having it create the tables, the sample post, the sample page, etc. is working
   fine, but if possible, I’d like to do this in a programmatic fashion (well, ideally
   without invoking a web test framework like Selenium).
 * After the initial blog creation/table population happens, there’s a few settings(
   theme, enabling some options, etc) I’d also like to do programmatically (sp?)
   if possible.
 * The hack-y approach I’m doing now, which works but I know is fragile and unsupported,
   is having taken a mysqldump of a freshly manually setup database and then using
   that to create the database for a new blog (with appropriate string replacements).
   I’d much rather use a programmatic approach, especially if there’s one supported
   by the WordPress team. 🙂

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