This guide makes use of WordPress Toolkit and cPanel's Standard Hooks system to implement automatic WordPress installations for new cPanel accounts.

Install WordPress Toolkit

WordPress Toolkit will be used to install and manage the WordPress sites on the server. 

First, install WordPress Toolkit if it is not already installed with either SSH or Terminal as the root user: 

sh <(curl https://wp-toolkit.plesk.com/cPanel/installer.sh)

Installing The Hook Action Script in Two Simple Steps

1. Create the following script located at:
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/wpAutoInstall.sh

#!/bin/bash
TMPFILE="$(mktemp -p /tmp wp-auto-install-XXXXXXXX)"
cat "${1:-/dev/stdin}" > $TMPFILE
DOMAIN=$(python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(open('$TMPFILE'))['data']['domain']")
CUSTOMEREMAIL=$(python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(open('$TMPFILE'))['data']['contactemail']")

## The following variable contains the name of the Package that was assigned to the account.
## It would be possible to add additinal logic to this script so that WordPress is only installed for certain packages
# PACKAGE=$(python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(open('$TMPFILE'))['data']['plan']")

rm -f $TMPFILE

wp-toolkit --install -domain-name $DOMAIN -admin-email $CUSTOMEREMAIL

2. Execute the following commands via SSH or Terminal as the root user:

chmod 0755 /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/wpAutoInstall.sh
chown root:root /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/wpAutoInstall.sh
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/manage_hooks add script /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/wpAutoInstall.sh --manual --category Whostmgr --event Accounts::Create --stage=post

Once the above steps are complete, create a new account to test the script.

Log in to the newly created cPanel account and look for the WordPress Toolkit icon under the Applications Section to manage the WordPress site.

Examining The wpAutoInstall.sh Script

The script is executed when an account is created because it was registered in cPanel's Standard Hooks system in step two of the above section. You can read more about the Standard Hooks system in this guide: How to Setup Standardized Hooks with BASH in cPanel

The following code pulls data from STDIN and then saves the data to a temporary file so that we can pull multiple values from the data. cPanel's Standardized Hooks system publishes the output from the account creation event to STDIN.

TMPFILE=$(mktemp -p /tmp wp-auto-install-XXXXXXXX)"
cat "${1:-/dev/stdin}" > $TMPFILE

The data published to STDIN is in JSON format. In order to make use of this data, you'll need a way to parse the JSON data. In the next part of our script, we parse some data out of the temporary file and assign that data to a few variables with Python:

DOMAIN=$(python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(open('$TMPFILE'))['data']['domain']")
CUSTOMEREMAIL=$(python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(open('$TMPFILE'))['data']['contactemail']")

Now that we've obtained the needed values from the event data, we remove our temporary file:

rm -f $TMPFILE

The next part uses the wp-toolkit command-line tool to do the actual installation of WordPress:

wp-toolkit --install -domain-name $DOMAIN -admin-email $CUSTOMEREMAIL

You can read more about the wp-toolkit command line here:

WordPress Toolkit CLI Documentatoin