Expressive fixtures persistence in WordPress (and some plugins).

GDPR and fluent data is a PITA while developing solutions to specific problems for your customers. Faker and Alice is already there for Symfony, Nette, Zend and now for WordPress to ...

• ... create data using wp-cli or plain PHP.
• ... generate tons of pages, posts, comments, products and more with just a few YAML-lines
• ... seed WordPress with specific use-cases for testing

Overall the goal is simplicity and no time wasting crap (for me and you) which we achieve by using raw WordPress structures in the YAML instead of reinventing the wheel.

By now we bring helper for:

• WordPress 4.6 - 5.4, e.g. posts, pages, user, options etc.

See below how a small Yaml-File can seed the database with tons of entries or read the documentation to find out more about entities and possibilities.

Download or just

composer install --dev rmp-up/wp-fixtures

We mostly require what Alice also needs (see Packagist.org for more details):

• PHP
• WordPress

Optional:

• wp-cli 2, which eats YAML and seeds the DB for you

Tests expand continuously to cover a bigger range one day (see Travis CI).

Lets define one simple page, multiple posts by random users and plenty of comments within one yaml:

WP_Post:
  page_1:
    # Well known wp_insert_post() structure
    post_type: page
    post_title: Imprint
    post_content: |
      Beth Doe
      Meestreet 42
      1337 Muskegon
    meta_input:
      simple: 1
      flat: # will append like add_post_meta
      - penny
      - claire
      - emily
      - lucy
      complex: # will be serialized
        company: True TV
        best: Ellen


  # or with abbreviated field-names
  post_{1..10}:
    author: '<wpUser()>'
    title: '<sentence()>'
    content: '<realText()>'
      

WP_Comment:
  # 100 comments randomly spread among posts
  comment_{2..102}:
    post_ID: '@post_<numberBetween(1,10)>'
    content: '<realText()>'

Other possible entities:

• Options
• WP_Comment
• WP_Post
• WP_Role
• WP_Site
• WP_Term
• WP_User

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