Chris Taylor

DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN ON A PRODUCTION SITE, OR ON A SITE WHERE YOU NEED TO KEEP THE DATA.
When deleting demo data your ENTIRE WordPress database will be reset, deleting ALL your posts, pages, comments and users. ONLY USE THIS PLUGIN ON A SITE WHERE YOU KNOW THE DATABASE CAN BE WIPED.
If you develop WordPress websites it’s useful to have some demo data in your system while it’s being built. This allows you to check that lists of things are displaying as they should, and that themes are working when they get data in them.
Historically it’s been a pain to add that data in. Either you need to take a backup of another site and use that data, or you need to tediously create multiple users and blogs yourself. No more, not now my Demo Data Creator is in town!
This WordPress, WPMU/MultiSite and BuddyPress plugin gives you a new admin screen where you can enter some parameters, click a button and (after a short wait) random demo data will be created. The parameter options include:
<pre><code>* Number of users to create
* Number of blogs per user (for WPMU/MultiSite)
* Whether users must have a blog
* Number of categories in each blog
* Number of posts in each blog
* Number of paragraphs in each blog post
* Number of pages in each blog
* Number of top-level pages
* Number of levels to nest pages
* Number of comments per post for each blog
* Number of links in blogroll for each blog
</code></pre>
For BuddyPress you also have:
<pre><code>* Number of groups
* Number of members per group
* Number of wire posts for each group
* Number of friends per user
* Number of statuses for each user
* Number of wire posts for each user
</code></pre>
Post content and comment text is automatically generated from Lorem ipsum text, for post content it’s even HTML-formatted.
Thanks to derscheinwelt for the suggestion and code to create random dates for posts, and Steve at http://slipfire.com/ for the wp_insert_user() code.

Demo Data Creator

Thanks

Very handy for a test system.  As it says - do not use on a production system.
The only way it could be any better would be if one could selectively delete, say just users in a range, or just posts in a range. But then that's not that hard to do via PHPMYADMIN now is it?
It would maybe stop those idiots who click the button that says "This will delete everything" and then complain that it did exactly that



Does EXACTLY what it says it will - thanks! Very Handy

Good for development

This plugin came in very handy during development of my own plugin. I used it to create a lot of users and it did exactly what it should.

Not sure where all the negativity about wiping the database comes from. Are they users that didn't read all the warnings? Or did older versions of the plugin not warn about wiping all data? Anyway, now it does :)

Used it for creating test users

Demo Data Creator is a Wordpress and BuddyPress plugin that allows a Wordpress developer to create demo users, blogs, posts, comments and more.

Dutch van Andel

This plugin serves as a highly documented example of using WordPress’s built-in WP_List_Table class for plugin development. Previously, WordPress plugins 
had to be created from scratch and were often wildly inconsistent with the rest of the WordPress admin. This example serves to help clarify use of the 
WP_List_Table class for quickly and easily generating consistent, standardized, feature-rich list-tables for WordPress admin screens.
One new admin menu is created: “List Table Example”. This page includes an example table and all the documentation needed to reproduce it. Developers who 
open the PHP file itself will find exceptionally well documented code outlining all the information needed to duplicate this feature.
For more information, please visit the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_List_Table" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_List_Tables</a> page in the WordPress Codex.

Custom List Table Example

Thanks a lot! Created my own admin table for a customer!

Awesome for developers

Saved me a lot of time implementing this class.

Excellent. Well documented.

This is incredibly helpful, well documented, and such a good example to follow. It really, REALLY helped me dig into the WP_List_Table class as well. Thank you for doing this!

What a GEM!!!

Brilliant

Great Plugin.

this is great. Too bad WordPress changed their policy and don't allow adding new example plugins like this. This is super convenient as a starting point to develop my own plugin <3

thanks

A highly documented plugin that demonstrates how to create custom admin list-tables using official WordPress techniques.

Demo Data Creator vs Custom List Table Example