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WordPress Dummy Data – Test That Theme!

Posted By on December 30, 2008

One thing that I’m going to spend a little bit more time doing is unloading all my blogging hacks onto you guys.  Essentially I’ll be giving you my most guarded secrets in how I “do” blogging, especially in terms of WordPress design, plugins, theming, etc…

So, one of the first tips is also one of the best.

Whenever you’re starting a new blog or want to stress-test a theme, you’re going to want to make sure it can handle everything that you may throw at it, especially from a content and blog post perspective.  Can your new theme “handle” quotes?  Bolding? Bullets? Does it align pictures correctly?

Theming your WordPress blog is fun, but can be dangerous if you don’t “check” it before use… especially if you don’t know how to code or fix the errors down the road.

So, one of the things that I do is upload bogus and dummy XML page and blog post content to my new blog and/or themes…  This dummy data contains everything that a theme might express in a blog post, with a bunch of tags, categories, child-cats, child-pages, comments, gravatar-support, etc…

Upload this baby into your blog and see if your theme works out just fine.  Make sure you follow these picture instructions… don’t forget that “check box” either!

churchcrunch_dummy_data_1

churchcrunch_dummy_data_2

churchcrunch_dummy_data_3

If your theme survives, you may just have a winner…!

About John Saddington: I am the CEO of 8BIT and a Full Time Entrepreneur/a>. I like what I do.

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25 Responses to “WordPress Dummy Data – Test That Theme!”

  1. djbyron
    December 30, 2008 at #

    Very cool…
    Bookmarked this page for future reference. (My next theme update will be a custom one so that will definitely need testing)

    Reply
  2. Ben Tortora
    May 30, 2009 at #

    Thanks this is the perfect data file I was looking for. Shared with my twitter followers.

    Reply
    • human3rror
      May 30, 2009 at #

      Sweet! Pass it around!

      —Sorry for the brevity and rampant spelling errors… This was obviously “Sent from my iPhone”.

      Reply
  3. andydarnell
    May 30, 2009 at #

    Wow this looks like a promising series of posts.

    Reply
  4. Josh Wagner
    May 30, 2009 at #

    Again, brilliant. This will be great, I need a theme tester. Thanks.

    Reply
  5. Keri
    May 26, 2010 at #

    Thank you!

    Reply
  6. Dave
    June 10, 2010 at #

    Thank you very much for the test data. I was styling for a “sticky” post and noticed that there were no posts with that status. You might want to change some to sticky and maybe some to draft or pending review. Thanks again — Dave

    Reply
  7. Evil Mammoth
    February 11, 2011 at #

    Many thanks. This is just the thing I needed.

    Reply
  8. Andy Hutchins
    March 10, 2011 at #

    Thanks alot! I always try to use dummy data and had a plugin at one point that did just that, but lost it. This is great to have as I am finishing up a new blog theme right now.

    Reply

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