nonsentences

A revival of Jeff Holman's nonsense generator. Original script: http://www.jholman.com/scripts/nonsense/ (note that there are reports of malware on this site and it might not be the original site any more).

This project is still in very early development. In other words, the code isn't fully converted, optimized, or even pretty. The sentence and title generators reply on the word lists in the db folder.

See example.php for an example of use and some configuration and how to use it outside of WP-CLI.

WP-CLI usage

wp --require=nonsentences.php nonsentences generate_posts

Parameters and defaults

'min_sentences' => 3,
'max_sentences' => 20,
'min_paragraphs' => 2,
'max_paragraphs' => 10,
'post_type' => 'post',
'number_of_posts' => 10,

post_type is currently not checked for validity.

The number of sentences in a paragraph is a random number between the two relevant parameters.

The number of paragraphs per post is a random number between the two relevant parameters.

A single optional taxonomy and term (or comma-separated list of terms) can be added as well via:

'taxonomy' => 'taxonomy_slug',
'taxonomy_term' => 'taxonomy term',

Todo

• Add additional WP-CLI support to generate a post or posts with generated content.
• Document options for code-based usage.
• Restructure as WordPress plugin that includes WP-CLI functionality and wp-admin

Changes

V1.4

• Changed function calls to use non-deprecated (or removed) functions
• Added rudimentary taxonomy support
• Fixed a bug in specific word types that casued them to be added as one-character instead of the full word
• Verified working in PHP 7.2

V1.3

• Initial work to add WP-CLI integration via generate_posts
• Rename index.php to example.php
• Add .gitignore to allow a WordPress installation in wp/ folder and WordPress index.php and wp-config.php in root

V1.2

• Abstract word list generator into wrappable get_words() method
• Change sentence() method to wrap get_words()
• Add support for titles, including word list structure, using get_words()
• Add logic to add WP-CLI support in main file
• Add stub for WP-CLI support
• Add additional "normal" sentence structure duplicates

V1.1

• Add paragraphs output
• Add passed parameters to control the number of paragraphs, sentences, and a paragraph wrapper.
• Removed dead code

V1.0

• Imported latest known version of "nonsense generator"
• Edits to word lists
• Added new sentence structures
• Code refactoring for PHP5