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Developing any WP plugin or theme often means needing to test it against as much of a \"real site\" as your development environment will allow, and if you're adding that test data by hand, it gets pretty tedious pretty quickly.<\/p>\n\n

This plugin will let you use either WP-CLI<\/a> commands, or the admin page in Tools->Content Generator<\/strong> to add test users, populate the Media Library with example images, an additional test custom post type and custom taxonomies, generate as many test \"Lorem Ipsum<\/em>\" posts as you want, and then add comments to those posts.<\/p>\n\n

Each of those \"Lorem Ipsum<\/em>\" posts will be randomly tagged and categorised, and can also be assigned one of the test images as its Featured Image, as well as a variety of HTML content in addition to the usual paragraphs.<\/p>\n\n

This plugin is primarily for people who need to test plugins and themes on a regular basis, but it would let anyone get a feel of how their site will look when it's full of real content.<\/p>\n\n

Workflow<\/h3>\n\n

All the parts of this plugin are optional, and each can be repeated as much as you want, depending on which parts of your site you want to test.<\/p>\n\n

However, no individual step will \"backfill\" preceeding ones automatically, so if you have an empty site and you want (eg.) your test Posts<\/em> to appear to have been written by different people, then you need to add the test Users<\/em> first.<\/p>\n\n

ie.<\/p>\n\n

    \n
  • Enable Custom<\/strong> (Post Types & Categories & Tags) before adding terms from your Taxonomies<\/strong>,<\/li>\n
  • Add Users<\/strong> before downloading Images<\/strong> before generating Posts<\/strong> before adding Comments<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    WP CLI Integration<\/h3>\n\n

    Using the plugin defaults, you can populate a test site with just the following commands:<\/p>\n\n

      \n
    1. wp plugin install test-content-generator --activate<\/code>\nDownload and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n
    2. wp test users --amount=20<\/code>\nAdd 20 random Editor\/Author\/Contributor\/Subscribers users who have registered within the last 60 days.<\/li>\n
    3. wp test taxonomies --amount=50<\/code>\nAdd 50 taxonomy terms split between Categories and Post Tags.<\/li>\n
    4. wp test images --amount=10<\/code>\nAdd 10 images of size 800x400 uploaded by any Editor\/Author.<\/li>\n
    5. wp test posts --amount=40<\/code>\nAdd 40 Posts written within the last 60 days by any Editor\/Author\/Contributor, with a Featured Image and both categorised and tagged.<\/li>\n
    6. wp test comments --amount=100<\/code>\nAdd 100 comments to your Posts written within the last 60 days by any of the registered users.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

      See wp help test<\/code> for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n

      0.4.4<\/h3>\n\n
        \n
      • Fix: Stopped creating deprecated dynamic properties for PHP 8.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        0.4.3<\/h3>\n\n
          \n
        • Tested against 6.7.2<\/li>\n
        • Fix: Moved the translation text domain loading to later in the init<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

          0.4.2<\/h3>\n\n
            \n
          • Tested against 6.4.3, 6.5 and 6.6.1<\/li>\n
          • Fix: Moved the run() callback of register_setting() into the abstract class (DRY)<\/li>\n
          • Fix: Switched use of rand() to wp_rand() to stop the plugin check whining<\/li>\n
          • Fix: Added translator notes for the various placeholders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

            0.4.1<\/h3>\n\n
              \n
            • Fix: Changed how some string arrays are passed via CLI to be consistent<\/li>\n
            • Fix: Uses gmdate\/wp_json_encode instead of date\/json_encode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

              0.4<\/h3>\n\n
                \n
              • Feature: Added WP-CLI integration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

                0.3<\/h3>\n\n
                  \n
                • Tested against 6.4 and 6.3.2<\/li>\n
                • Feature: Added ability to fill media library from https:\/\/picsum.photos\/<\/li>\n
                • Feature: Added featured images, user creation, comment creation<\/li>\n
                • Feature: Added a better settings page<\/li>\n
                • Initial public release<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

                  0.2<\/h3>\n\n
                    \n
                  • Feature: Added the lipsum routines to generate posts and terms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

                    0.1<\/h3>\n\n
                      \n
                    • Original plugin - add some test posts<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Quickly generate a test site full of random users, posts, comments, tags and images.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/184246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184246"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/keith_wp"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=184246"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=184246"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=184246"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=184246"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=184246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}