handbook/commands/post/generate.md

wp post generate

Generates some posts.

Creates a specified number of new posts with dummy data.

OPTIONS

[--count=<number>]

How many posts to generate? --- default: 100 ---

[--post_type=<type>]

The type of the generated posts. --- default: post ---

[--post_status=<status>]

The status of the generated posts. --- default: publish ---

[--post_title=<post_title>]

The post title. --- default: ---

[--post_author=<login>]

The author of the generated posts. --- default: ---

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

The date of the post. Default is the current time.

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

The date of the post in the GMT timezone. Default is the value of --post_date.

[--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. --- default: 1 ---

[--format=<format>]

Render output in a particular format. --- default: progress options:

• progress
• ids ---

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 https://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.

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

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

Argument	Description
--path=<path>	Path to the WordPress files.
--url=<url>	Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host|container>[:<port>][<path>]	Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of "docker", "docker-compose", "docker-compose-run", "vagrant").
--http=<http>	Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
--user=<id|login|email>	Set the WordPress user.
--skip-plugins[=<plugins>]	Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
--skip-themes[=<themes>]	Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--skip-packages	Skip loading all installed packages.
--require=<path>	Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--exec=<php-code>	Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
--context=<context>	Load WordPress in a given context.
--[no-]color	Whether to colorize the output.
--debug[=<group>]	Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[=<assoc>]	Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet	Suppress informational messages.