Easy Populate Posts
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If you need a WordPress helper plugin that allows you to populate the sites with dummy content, you have to check this out. NEW! You can generate the content as Gutenberg blocks or even as Gutenberg templates too.
What Does It Do?
This is a WordPress helper plugin that allows developers to populate the sites with random content (posts with random tags, featured images, dates in the past or in the future, sticky flag, author, etc.), but with specific meta values and taxonomy terms associated if the case.
You can use a custom counter in the title to make it easy to test and generate the content as Gutenberg blocks or Gutenberg templates.
All of the image samples have been updated with some beautiful landscapes I got to see and capture with my phone while traveling this summer with the amazing Dekode team (Lofoten, Norway).
Gutenberg template option in the content type dropdown
This allows you to copy/paste the template you want to use, and even use the plugin’s custom patterns that generate random content (check out the example shown when you click the info icon).
Plugin Hooks
The plugin has the following helper hooks:
spp_prepare_post_data,spp_after_post_inserted,spp_after_post_updatedspp_before_post_image_attached,spp_after_post_image_attached,spp_after_post_processed,spp_filter_remove_update_info,spp_filter_remove_donate_info,spp_filter_post_statuses,spp_filter_post_taxonomies,spp_filter_acf_fields,spp_filter_post_meta,spp_max_options_tax,spp_max_options_meta,spp_meta_value
The custom hooks allow developers to change the data and perform additional actions after the plugin’s main events get executed.
Import/Export
There are options to import/export the settings groups as JSON. This is useful when you want to use the same settings in multiple instances or share these with your team.
save settings as groups that can be restored
This option allows you to set up different combinations of attributes for each post type (for example) and easily switch from one set to another.
Patterns
You can use the custom patterns from the plugin in the generated content, in order to make it look as close as you intend it to have it in real scenarios.
Testing the custom patterns that generate random content.
The patterns can be changed and tested before inserting these in the title or content to be generated.
Images Sample
In this version, the plugin sample images were updated and there are 10 of them now. All of the photos are done with my phone, during my trips, and are free to use.
