Description

Populate the sites with random content (configurable type, with tags, meta, terms, images, publish date, status, parent, sticky flag).

Hooks

admin_menu, register_activation_hook, register_deactivation_hook

License

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Version history

4.2.1 – Tested up to 6.2.2, added the icon in the admin post listing to differentiate generate from manually created posts
4.2.0 – Added post ID, post title, post excerpt, post featured image ID, and post featured image URL as options to be used in the Gutenberg template; fixed the menu overlay
4.1.1 – Tested up to 6.2
4.1.0 – Tested up to 6.1.1, added new patterns for random date, time, date & time, longitude, and latitude, fixed the saved groups reset on plugin deactivate
4.0.0 – Tested up to 6.0.2, added the Gutenberg template option, added helper hooks, added the option to save settings as groups that can be restored, added the option to import/export settings groups, updated the images samples, fixed the number of items to generate
3.9.0 – Added patterns and hints, updated post types selectable list, fixed the settings not saving all the terms options
3.8.0 – Tested up to 5.8.2, filters for meta, new option to increase/decrease the number of taxonomies and meta options, new option to reuse images from the media library, new option to add random terms, fixed the uncategorized term
3.7.1 – Fixed random status generator, better trim, new screenshot
3.7.0 – Tested up to 5.8, UI updates, new option for generating Gutenberg blocks and use drop cap, new image samples, fix multiple sample images on Safari
3.6.1 – Fix extra comma
3.6 – Tested up to 5.6, coding standards updates
3.5.2 – Tested up to 5.5, icon update
3.5.1 – expose the registered post meta including the ACF fields, support for serialized post meta values
3.5 – Tested up to 5.4 version, auto-increment numeric prefix, date input, fix layout on small resolution, new sample images
3.4 – Tested up to 5.2.2 version, removed unusable post types, two more post meta options, the option to specify taxonomy terms by names (will be generated if not found), new options grouping, status hints, translation added, new assets samples
3.3 – Tested up to 5.2.1 version, new assets samples
3.2 – Tested up to 4.9.8 version, excerpts
3.1 – Tested up to 4.8 version, tags and image preview
3.0 – Tested up to 4.8 version, cleanup the content generated when the plugin is deactivated (this will work for new content)
2.0 – Post parent option, specific date, specific status
1.0 – Initial version.

Screenshots

The plugin option.

Installation

Upload Easy Populate Posts to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your application
Login as Admin
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

None

Reviews

washbert 14 November 2022

Plugin did exactly as expected. Its nice searching for a random process that you wanna automate and find something like this. Would like a bit more control over the content without having to modify a template, but all in all more than gets the job done.

Christina 5 April 2022

This is a very helpful and well organized, easy to use, clean interface plugin. Freaking love it!

karpushchenko 24 Disember 2020

It is great, thank you. But I think it is not populating 100% of posts with newly created categories.

Md Shariar Sarkar 22 Mei 2020

Tanks a lot for this tool, I really appreciate you work 🙂

lucaseugenio 11 Oktober 2019

Amazing plugin, perfect for testing new themes. Actually the only one that I found, and is excellent.

FriendlyWP 2 Oktober 2019

Thank so much for this plugin! Wonderful way to test out a bunch of content without having to fake it manually. I love that it can auto-delete on deactivation too. Any plans to add Gutenberg / Blocks content in future? Thanks again!

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Changelog

4.2.1

Tested up to 6.2.2
Added the yellow icon in the admin post listing to indicate that the post was generated with Easy Populate Post

4.2.0

Added post ID, post title, post excerpt, post featured image ID, and post featured image URL as options to be used in the Gutenberg template.
Fixed the menu overlay

4.1.1

Tested up to 6.2

4.1.0

Tested up to 6.1.1
Added new patterns for random date, time, date & time, longitude, and latitude
Fixed the saved groups reset on plugin deactivate

4.0.0

Tested up to 6.0.2
Added the Gutenberg template option
Added helper hooks: spp_filter_post_statuses, spp_filter_post_taxonomies, spp_prepare_post_data, spp_after_post_inserted, spp_before_post_image_attached, spp_after_post_image_attached
Added the option to save settings as groups that can be restored
Added the option to import/export settings groups
Updated the images samples
Fixed the number of items to generate

3.9.0

Added new patterns that can be used for even more random content
Added hints about reusable images from the media library and the patterns
Removed new core post types from the selectable list
Fixed the settings not saving all the terms options

3.8.0

Tested up to 5.8.2
Added filters for showing lists of meta
Added options to increase/decrease the number of taxonomies and meta options
Added the option to reuse images from the media library by specifying attachment IDs separated with new line
Updated translation
Added the option to add random terms from the combination of term names and term IDs (otherwise all will apply)
Fixed the uncategorized term getting attached to generated posts

3.7.1

Fixed random status generator
Better trim for the generated content in the results preview
Added plugin new screenshot

3.7.0

Tested up to 5.8
UI updates
Added new option for generating Gutenberg blocks and for using the drop cap
New image samples from my travels
Fix load multiple sample images on Safari when saving the settings

3.6.1

Fix extra comma

3.6

Tested up to 5.6
Coding standards updates
New image samples

3.5.2

Tested up to 5.5
Icon update

3.5.1

Expose the registered post meta including the ACF fields
Support for serialized post meta values

3.5

Tested up to 5.4 version
Added option for auto-increment numeric prefix
Date input
Minor changes to fix layout on small resolution
New sample images
Allow to specify attachments IDs (each one per line inside the images area) to be used as sample images

3.4

Tested up to 5.2.2 version
Removed unusable post types from generate options (oembed_cache, user_request, wp_block)
Added two more post meta options (key and value pairs)
Added the option to specify taxonomy terms by names, and these will be generated if not found
New options grouping
Status hints for non-specified publish date
Translation added
New assets samples

3.3

Tested up to 5.2.1 version.
New assets samples.
Fix content wrap in settings page.

3.2

Tested up to 4.9.8 version
Added excerpt option (none, from content or random)

3.1

Tested up to 4.9.6 version
The option to use your custom images downloaded from URLs and optimization of the usage of the generated images, these are reused instead of creating multiple media files
New sample images
Preview of the tags attached to the generated posts
Thumbnail preview

3.0

Tested up to 4.8 version
Add the option to cleanup the content generated when the plugin is deactivated (this will work for new content)

2.0

Tested up to 4.5.2 version
Cleanup
Add sample images in the plugin
Add AJAX execution
Allow to set a post parent for the hierarchical types
Allow to set a specific publish date
Allow to set a specific post status
Allow to set two taxonomy terms
Allow to set three post meta
Allow to set multiple term IDs separated by comma
Reuse the sample images already generated