When creating a new theme or plugin, you always need to create a custom data set to test whether it’s working as expected – or not. As developers ourselves, we’ve run into this problem quite often.

The goal of FakerPress is to fill this gap, offering a solution for both developers and WordPress users.

Note: This plugin requires PHP 8.1 or higher to be activated.

Checkout our GitHub Repository

Components Included

Posts
Custom Post Types
Meta Data
Featured Image
Users
Tags
Categories
Comments
Custom Comment Types
Attachments (NEW)

Create Dummy Content

During the development process, a WordPress developer will often need to fill up an empty theme or test site with placeholder content. Doing so manually can be time consuming. FakerPress allows you to speed up this process.

Random Featured Images

FakerPress creates randomly generated attachments as Featured Images for your WordPress test content.

Random Meta Information

FakerPress enables you to generate custom placeholder meta information for Users, Posts, Terms, and Comments with 20 types of data.

Delete Generated Content

After testing is complete, you can delete any FakerPress-generated dummy content all at once.

Randomized HTML

When creating placeholder posts, FakerPress creates randomized HTML to allow you to catch bugs that an XML import may not.

Include Images in HTML

FakerPress also allows you to output images to your HTML tests, enabling testing for placeholder media.

Comments with Real Browser Data

FakerPress includes examples of real browser data with generated comments, allowing for more robust testing.

Generate Random Terms

FakerPress includes custom settings to determine the quantity and type of terms generated for test content. The plugin then handles randomization to generate terms within those parameters for tailored test data.

Random User Profiles

Manually generated data for test profiles might not catch edge cases. With FakerPress, randomized data fills up relevant fields with randomized information for more robust testing.

Modern REST API

FakerPress now includes a comprehensive REST API for programmatic content generation. All modules support REST endpoints with batching capabilities for large-scale generation. Full OpenAPI documentation is available at /wp-json/fakerpress/v1/docs.

Generate Attachments

Create realistic image attachments with customizable dimensions, multiple image providers (Placehold.co, Lorem Picsum), and automatic generation of alt text, captions, and descriptions. All images include proper attribution – Lorem Picsum images credit the original Unsplash photographers.

Types of Meta Included

Attachment
WP_Query
Number
Elements
Letter
Words
Text
HTML
Lexify
Asciify
Regexify
Person
Geo Information
Company
Date
TimeZone
Email
Domain
IP
Browser User Agent

Languages

To translate FakerPress into your language, please visit the project in GlotPress. You can find additional support and best practices through your locale’s Translation Team.

See room for improvement?

Great! There are several ways you can get involved to help make FakerPress better:

Report Bugs: If you find a bug, error, or other problem, please report it! You can do this by creating a new topic in the plugin forum. Once a developer can verify the bug by reproducing it, they will create an official bug report in GitHub where the bug will be worked on.
Suggest New Features: Have an awesome idea? Please share it! Simply create a new topic in the plugin forum to express your thoughts on why the feature should be included and get a discussion going around your idea.
Issue Pull Requests: If you’re a developer, the easiest way to get involved is to help out on issues already reported in GitHub. Be sure to check out the contributing guide for developers.

Thank you for wanting to make FakerPress better for everyone! We salute you.