You may think that creating dummy content for a theme or plugin is easy, and honestly, you are correct. But what most people don’t consider is how much time it actually takes.

You need to essentially replicate a full website for users to get an idea of what their content would look like in your theme.

Even if you are loading a site with dummy content, creating a site’s worth of it is going to require a significant time investment. And if the content is too low quality, well, it could reflect badly on your actual theme as users may think that their content will look bad on it.

As such, dummy content is an essential tool for developers because it allows them to showcase what real content will look like on their website. Without it, users cannot get an idea of what a theme or plugin is capable of doing if they don’t have an example of it in action.

Luckily, with these plugins, it has never been easier to create a dummy website in WordPress.

Method 1: Dummy Content with Test Data from GitHub

I’m sure many of you are familiar with GitHub, but in case you aren’t, it is a platform dedicated for developers to store, manage, and share code. And it just so happens that users have actually created and shared dummy content for WordPress.

The aptly named WordPress Theme Test Data contains dummy content you can use on your website. It is intended to be used on a dummy website and not a real one. Importing it on a real website will cause problems and replace your actual content.

So, what is actually in this file? Here is a quick rundown:

• Categories
• Menu Items
• Comments
• Images
• Pages

There is also some HTML dummy content that you can customize like tags. Doing so can help them better match the style of your theme.