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.