brichards/wp-cli-random-content

Use WP-CLI to generate random posts, taxonomies, and users for a WordPress site.

Makes use of mospaw/nonsentences, a revival of Jeff Holman's nonsense generator, by Chris Mospaw. The sentence and title generators reply on the word lists in the nonsentences/db folder.

Quick links: Installing | Contributing | Usage

Installing

Installing this package requires WP-CLI v0.23.0 or greater. Update to the latest stable release with wp cli update.

Once you've done so, you can install this package with wp package install brichards/wp-cli-random-content.

Contributing

Code and ideas are more than welcome.

Please open an issue with questions, feedback, and violent dissent. Pull requests are expected to include test coverage.

Usage

Generate Posts

wp random generate

Generate some truly random posts of a given post_type and control every facet of the generation.

Each post will have a random number of paragraphs comprised of a random number of sentences. The publish date will be random (within a min/max range). The post author will be random.

Just look at all these options!

Options

• --count=<number>: Number of posts to generate (default: 100).
• --post_type=<type>: The type of post to generate (default: post).
• --post_status=<status>: The status of the generated posts (default: publish).
• --post_author=<login>: The author of the generated posts (default: random).
• --min_date=<yyyy-mm-dd>: The oldest possible publish_date per post (default: current date).
• --max_date=<yyyy-mm-dd>: The newest possible publish_date per post (default: current date).
• --max_depth=<number>: Maximum depth of children for hierarchical post types (default: 1).
• --min_length=<number>: The minimum number of paragraphs per post (default: 1).
• --max_length=<number>: The maximum number of paragraphs per post (default: 10).
• --min_terms=<number>: The minimum number of terms per post (default: 0).
• --max_terms=<number>: The maximum number of terms per post (default: 5).
• --taxonomies=<taxonomy>: The taxonomy/ies to use for attached terms (default: category,post_tag).
• --set_thumbnail=<boolean>: Whether or not to set the post thumbnail for generated posts (default: true).
• --require_thumb=<boolean>: Force a thumbnail (true) or allow a 20% chance for no thumbnail (false) per post (default: false).
• --thumb_keywords=<string>: Specific search keywords (comma separated) to refine image selection (default: none).
• --thumb_size=<string>: Specific image dimensions in WxH format (e.g. 1024x768) to limit downloaded image dimensions. An empty value defaults to the largest size available (default: none).
• --with_terms=<boolean>: Generate random terms before generating posts (default: false).

Generate Terms

wp random generate_terms

Options

• --taxonomy=<taxonomy>: Which taxonomy/ies to use when generating terms (default: category,post_tag).
• --count=<number>: Number of terms to generate per taxonomy (default: 20).
• --max_depth=<number>: Maximum depth of children for hierarchical taxonomies (default: 1).

Generate Users

wp random generate_users

Options

• --count=<number>: Number of users to generate (default: 100).
• --role=<type>: The user role for all generated users (default: author).