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I would like to know if there's a way to populate a WordPress site with some dummy content while installation process is going on. Let's say a few sample pages, a fews posts, taxonomy and that's it.

I'm not sure if this is possible since I haven't found proper documentation.

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Searching for another thing, just stumbled upon this gem by @anmari :)

You have to put a Dropin plugin at the root of wp-content.

Should be named install.php and contain a new version of the pluggable function wp_install_defaults.

I used this gist for testing. And the only modification from the original function is the default category name and slug.

There's a similar Q&A at StackOverflow and Michael notice is worth copying:

Since a default category of some kind is assumed, it's a good idea to create a least one category

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    This isn't correct brasofilo, dropins are not the same as putting custom install.php into wp-content
    – Wyck
    Commented Dec 9, 2012 at 3:53
  • @Wyck, started to research, not much came up, and ended up opening a Question for that: What constitutes a Drop-in Plugin?.
    – brasofilo
    Commented Dec 9, 2012 at 13:40
  • Ya it is a bit vague, especially dropping an install.php into wp-config, cheers.
    – Wyck
    Commented Dec 9, 2012 at 16:38
  • To clarify I meant mu-plugins, they can both be considered "drop-ins".
    – Wyck
    Commented Dec 9, 2012 at 18:45
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Use plugins like :

WP DUMMY CONTENT

Easy generation and deletion of blog posts, pages, and sub pages for developers. Full site structure in one click.

DEMO DATA CREATOR

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

Well and of course this plugins will be installed after installation is done!

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1.Your best bet is to use the theme unit test XML import after install, it can be found here: https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/demo/theme-unit-test-data.xml it includes images and tons of stuff.

  • You need to go to Tools -> Import

2.The option to do it during install is to use brasofilo idea and create you own install. script by creating the following file: wp-content/install.php.

3.A third option is to use mu-plugins http://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins which must be in the wp-content/mu-plugins directory by default (it can be changed) and can be named anything.

A better solution is to use a build system like wp-cli, phing, capistrano, etc, to run the install and include the needed data. For example I have a Phing script that deletes the default WP data on install and it would be easy to add data if you wanted to or drop in some mu-pluginsor just do it right in the script.

In fact I might just go ahead and do this, it's a good idea.

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