These are for clients who typically only use a couple plugins, usually Akismet and a contact form. So other than the theme stuff, which probably takes about an

These are for clients who typically only use a couple plugins, usually Akismet and a contact form. So other than the theme stuff, which probably takes about an hour, I'm usually just installing WP, which takes about 3 mins (they're usually using a host that has one-click installation), then I upload the plugins that I use on everything and enable them, which takes another 2-3 mins, then I configure things, which usually means turning on permalinks, changing admin password, and setting up the contact form. Create a "contact us" page, edit the about us page, and I'm pretty much done. The non-theme stuff takes about 30 mins. But these are sites for authors, many of which are new to the idea of blogging, so a lot of complicated plugins and widgets to deal with is too much for them.