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Home • My Plugins • Easy Populate Posts

Easy Populate Posts

Current Version 4.2.2

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.

You can download the free plugin from the WordPress repository.

Easy Populate Posts Banner

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 some 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.

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.

Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
Easy Populate Posts
Lofoten, Norway
  • What Does It Do?
  • Plugin Hooks
  • Import/Export
  • Patterns
  • Images Sample
  • Version History

Version History

4.2.2

  • Tested up to 6.3.1
  • Added the author option
  • Separated extra options from images group
  • Translation update

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
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July 31, 2022
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