Title: Test Content Generator Author: keith_wp Published: Febrer 19, 2024 Last modified: Abril 7, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/test-content-generator/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3038088) # Test Content Generator By [keith_wp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keith_wp/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/test-content-generator.0.4.4.zip) * [Details](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/test-content-generator/#description) * [Reviews](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/test-content-generator/#reviews) * [Development](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/test-content-generator/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/) ## Description 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. This plugin will let you use either [WP-CLI](https://wp-cli.org/) commands, or the admin page in Tools->**Content Generator** 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_” posts as you want, and then add comments to those posts. Each of those “_Lorem Ipsum_” 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. 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. ### Workflow 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. However, no individual step will “backfill” preceeding ones automatically, so if you have an empty site and you want (eg.) your test _Posts_ to appear to have been written by different people, then you need to add the test _Users_ first. ie. * Enable **Custom** (Post Types & Categories & Tags) before adding terms from your** Taxonomies**, * Add **Users** before downloading **Images** before generating **Posts** before adding **Comments**. ### WP CLI Integration Using the plugin defaults, you can populate a test site with just the following commands: 1. `wp plugin install test-content-generator --activate` Download and activate the plugin. 2. `wp test users --amount=20` Add 20 random Editor/Author/Contributor/Subscribers users who have registered within the last 60 days. 3. `wp test taxonomies --amount=50` Add 50 taxonomy terms split between Categories and Post Tags. 4. `wp test images --amount=10` Add 10 images of size 800×400 uploaded by any Editor/ Author. 5. `wp test posts --amount=40` Add 40 Posts written within the last 60 days by any Editor/Author/Contributor, with a Featured Image and both categorised and tagged. 6. `wp test comments --amount=100` Add 100 comments to your Posts written within the last 60 days by any of the registered users. See `wp help test` for more details. ## Screenshots * [[ * Generating new test _Posts_. * [[ * An example of the output using the _Polite_ theme. * [[ * Create any role of user in the _Users_ screen. * [[ * Adding _Images_ to your Media Library. * [[ * The _Custom Post Type_ and _Custom Taxonomies_ can be enabled separately. * [[ * Add test terms to all of your _Taxonomies_. * [[ * Fill out your frontend by adding _Comments_ to your content. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/59509299a504d9d662d2aa13d1b4147f921f0a494c692715aaf2592e100e6721? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great plugin 🙂](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-40724/)󠁿 [squarestar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/squarestar/) Agost 4, 2025 1 reply Thanks for this – I really like how straight-forward it is. I’ve used most of the UI features and it works very well, with a nice, native interface and no distractions! I haven’t used the WP CLI features as I don’t normally use WP CLI. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f8116357a3ddb033bec09095a06f0d443ccd0f8282e159c5b3f5e1fc856c1ef3? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[It works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-works-2546/)󠁿 [yuri.koval](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yurikoval/) Març 10, 2025 Good to see a plugin that actually generates test content with ease. [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Test Content Generator” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ keith_wp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keith_wp/) [Translate “Test Content Generator” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/test-content-generator) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/test-content-generator/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/test-content-generator/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/test-content-generator/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/test-content-generator/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog ### 0.4.4 * Fix: Stopped creating deprecated dynamic properties for PHP 8.3 ### 0.4.3 * Tested against 6.7.2 * Fix: Moved the translation text domain loading to later in the init ### 0.4.2 * Tested against 6.4.3, 6.5 and 6.6.1 * Fix: Moved the run() callback of register_setting() into the abstract class ( DRY) * Fix: Switched use of rand() to wp_rand() to stop the plugin check whining * Fix: Added translator notes for the various placeholders ### 0.4.1 * Fix: Changed how some string arrays are passed via CLI to be consistent * Fix: Uses gmdate/wp_json_encode instead of date/json_encode ### 0.4 * Feature: Added WP-CLI integration ### 0.3 * Tested against 6.4 and 6.3.2 * Feature: Added ability to fill media library from https://picsum.photos/ * Feature: Added featured images, user creation, comment creation * Feature: Added a better settings page * Initial public release ### 0.2 * Feature: Added the lipsum routines to generate posts and terms ### 0.1 * Original plugin – add some test posts ## Meta * Version **0.4.4** * Last updated **12 mesos ago** * Active installations **30+** * WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.7.5** * PHP version ** 8.3 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/test-content-generator/) * Tags * [lipsum](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lipsum/)[lorem ipsum](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lorem-ipsum/) [test posts](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/test-posts/)[wp-cli](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-cli/) * [Advanced View](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/test-content-generator/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/test-content-generator/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ keith_wp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keith_wp/) ## Support Got something to say? 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