WPM started as a rather simple script. I was working the night shift at a managed web host, and I was rather sick of installing WordPress for customers and making one-off backups of those installations when customers inevitably requested something stupid. I did what any good and proper lazy engineer would do, and I automated both processes.

This eventually evolved to handle more and more stuff like remembering/setting permissions, renaming WordPress installations, and so on.

This isn't currently maintained, but if people want it updated or something, let me know. I could be encouraged to take it up again.