WP .XML Test Data Import
If you have read any of my previous posts about the mighty WordPress, then you might be able to work out I am a big fan! Very true indeed! Infact 99% of the sites I have done use it. When creating a design I won’t build it into WordPress from the start, main reason is that I can concentrate fully on the HTML/CSS code and not have to worry about PHP loops, etc. Much simpler!
I use Lorem Ipsum to generate text to bulk out my design and give me a more realistic feel of how it will look live, which is great. When I come to integrating the site into the WordPress CMS I end up left with a kind of ‘blank canvas’ containing just the default ‘Hello World’ post! Having to continuously create fake posts/categories/tags/comments to check it all works within WP is well, Very Frustrating :(
For anyone else who has the same problem as me, this ones for you. Download the .XML linked below and import this into your WordPress installation and problem is sorted, the .XML will import the following:
- 5 Pages, with full content
- 10 Posts, with content, including Tags, Categories and Excerpt
- 21 Unique Tags
- 11 Unique Categories
- 10 Unique Comments, including several from the ‘Tester’ user (Administrator)
- 7 Default Links
- 1 Post (under category ‘Bullet List’) contains a Bullet List
- 1 Post (under category ‘Numbered List’) contains a Numbered List
- Various Lengths on each posts content and title
If you are not familiar with Importing an .XML file into WordPress then follow this quick guide (based on the 2.6 version of WP)
- Unzip the .XML from the downloaded archive
- Log into your WP administration area (http://www.sitename/wp-admin)
- Select Manage from the main menu
- From the Manage sub-menu, select Import
- You will be provided with a list of Blog types you wish to import from, select WordPress from the bottom of the list
- Next select Browse
- Locate to the .XML you downloaded from the link below, select Okay
- Finally, select Upload File and Import
Any problems let me know, but should be fairly straight forward! Finally here is the download link:
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Stu Greenham is a Web Designer / Developer who lives in Hull (North East England) and works for the web agency Strawberry. Follow him on Twitter (@stugreenham) to find out what he's up to.
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Date Posted: 8th September 2008
Filed Under: All Posts, Freebies, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress
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I have already a demo site at wpdemo.nspeaks.com – Thanks…I will use your content to import more data as I am working on releasing some wordpress themes!
@de musicas – No problems hope it helps!
@Navjot Singh – Great, I’m glad its coming in use to someone, thanks for your post. I am currently working on a WP theme too, (NERD)Press, its coming along nicely. Do you have any themes out there at the moment?
I am downloading it… :-)
very good, thanks very much
@Pangeran – Great, I’m pleased people are using it. I will be releasing lots more WordPress themes, feel free to subscribe to my feed, link is at the top of the page :)
Thanks, worked great :)
@Sharry – Great hope it helps :D
Thank you soo much! Just what I needed
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Thank you for your website ;-)
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have a good day and thank you again!
Thanks, such a simple idea but it never occurred to me to set up an xml file.
Also I had to say hello once I knew you was from Hull. Its good to come across another Web designer locally that builds sites the right way and is into WordPress. I also recommend ExpressionEngine for bigger projects and Magento for e-commerce sites.
Do you freelance or work for a company?
Cheers,
Darren
I recently discovered this blog. I’ve had a similiar idea to your rewriting the ten commandments for some time now.
Hmm. Good question.
Hmmm, I am tempted to try this.
Good post.
Cheers!
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Hi,
I am looking for a solution to automatically import an XML file into wordpress for each of my users blogs which I plan to set up?
Any ideas as to how one can accomplish this?
Thanks
Jeffrey
thanks for this!
Hello,
thanks for this great post, but I can’t download it. I don’t know why. Can you, or anybody, send me wptester.zip by e-mail? Is it possible? Thank you very much.
Hi there Stu – not sure why but the Zip is coming in at 0K at the moment.
Thought you’d like to know
Ady
WordPress filters
@Ondrej – I can send it no problem at all, whats your email address?
@Otter and @Ondrej – The WP-tester.zip link has been sorted you should be able to download now :)
Hi there,
I download your dummy content but everytime I upload it I get a message: “Are you sure you want to do this?” and a “Please try again” link. Everytime I click that I get returned to the original upload page. WordPress is talking about ” WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR)” crap… whats a WXR file? I only have a XML file.
I tried chmodding my ‘uploads’ folder to all permissions but it didn’t work :S. I’m using wordpress: 2.71 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Mac OSX.
Hopefully someone can help!
Dankeschön!
Worked like a charm. Thanks for making it easy.
@Jeremy – Thanks mate, happy to help!
This is such friendly written.. its helps me a lot as I’m not a pro in this are.. :p THanks
Exactly what we we’re looking for to test out our new blog theme. Thanks for the assist!
Great !!!
Thanks a lot, it’s very usefull
Great !!!
Thanks a lot, it’s very usefull
Saved a lot of Time
Can you please re-upload this?
I get an 404 when trying to download.
Thanks :)
@Amy Sorry about that I have reuploaded the file give that a try :)
Thanks Stu, got it!
Thanks..!!! This helped me a lot..!!! gr8 work
Hai, I make wordpress 2.9.2, and try what you say.
I upload the file in Tools => Import => WordPress. but not working.
by the way I try in my local computer.
can yuo help me?
thanks!!!
Super easy to set up on my test site! thank you much!
Its useful. I needed some dummy data while I created my first WordPress theme and I had to write some sample articles or use ‘lorem ipsum’ text for this. Had I found your post initially it would have saved me a lot of time.
Anyways I am going to use it for my future developments. Thanks a lot for this.
This is great, thanks a lot!