wp post generate

Creates a specified number of new posts with dummy data.

OPTIONS #OPTIONS

[--count=<number>]

How many posts to generate?
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default: 100
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[--post_type=<type>]

The type of the generated posts.
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default: post
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[--post_status=<status>]

The status of the generated posts.
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default: publish
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[--post_title=<post_title>]

The post title.
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default:
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[--post_author=<login>]

The author of the generated posts.
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default:
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[--post_date=<yyyy-mm-dd-hh-ii-ss>]

The date of the generated posts. Default: current date

[--post_date_gmt=<yyyy-mm-dd-hh-ii-ss>]

The GMT date of the generated posts. Default: value of post_date (or current date if it’s not set)

[--post_content]

If set, the command reads the post_content from STDIN.

[--max_depth=<number>]

For hierarchical post types, generate child posts down to a certain depth.
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default: 1
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[--format=<format>]

Render output in a particular format.
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default: progress
options:
– progress
– ids
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EXAMPLES #EXAMPLES

# Generate posts.
$ wp post generate --count=10 --post_type=page --post_date=1999-01-04
Generating posts  100% [================================================] 0:01 / 0:04

# Generate posts with fetched content.
$ curl -N http://loripsum.net/api/5 | wp post generate --post_content --count=10
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2509  100  2509    0     0    616      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:--   616
Generating posts  100% [================================================] 0:01 / 0:04

# Add meta to every generated posts.
$ wp post generate --format=ids | xargs -d ' ' -I % wp post meta add % foo bar
Success: Added custom field.
Success: Added custom field.
Success: Added custom field.

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GLOBAL PARAMETERS #GLOBAL PARAMETERS

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.