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Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content

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Posted by dan philibin on

Developing a theme for public release isn’t an easy task. When you’re the only one using your theme you don’t have to worry about expanding it, but put it into the hands of other users and it better be ready for any content they throw at it. Blockquotes, lists, and floating images – there are plenty of elements that are common to blogs that need to be supported in every theme you release. Cue our new sample WordPress content.

Download our Sample WordPress Content

We put together a collection of posts, tags, categories, and pages into an XML file – perfect for importing right into a new installation of WordPress. Here are some of the things this collection includes:

  • Multiple posts with different elements in each
  • 12 Posts to force pagination
  • Blockquotes, lists – ordered and unordered – and floating images
  • Comments on a few of the posts
  • Parent, child, and grandchild categories and pages
  • Tags
  • Multiple months for the archives

Using this file is easy. Simply download the zip file and extract it. Then, log in to your WordPress admin panel and navigate to Manage>Import. Select the WordPress option from the bottom of the list, choose your file, and upload it. Within a few minutes you should have a ready-to-go development server.

Since this is the first release of this XML file, there are probably a few things we might have missed. If you think anything should be added to the collection, let us know in the comments and we’ll update it later.

Download our Sample WordPress Content

288 thoughts on “Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content

  1. spacer Keiron says:

    Fantastic Idea!!

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  3. spacer Andrea_R says:

    Awesome! Thanks for doing this! I’ve been too lazy to whip up my own…

  4. spacer Nyssa says:

    Perfect. Just what I need right now as I’m working on a theme and I am generally pretty lazy when it comes to sample posts for myself.

  5. spacer m-alo says:

    Nice idea! It could save theme developers a lot of time when setting up a demo-site.
    I think an improvement could be:
    more than 10 posts (so the link to older posts shows at the bottom by default on an out-of-the-box installation).

  6. spacer adelle says:

    Dan great idea! This is very helpful, thanks for this!

  7. spacer James Paden says:

    Wow, I really need this last weekend when I redesigned my blog (comments welcome!). Thanks!

  8. spacer Simon North says:

    Nice, ive been looking for something like this for ages

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  10. spacer Bill Biwer says:

    This is great. Good thinking.

  11. spacer Vladimir Lysak says:

    Great idea! I use it for my site. But I translate it to Russian. Dan Philibin, what you think about this idea? spacer

  12. spacer kevin says:

    Thanks! This saves lots of time.

  13. spacer Dan Philibin says:

    @Vladmir I don’t really see a point in translating it since most of the text is just lorem ipsum. Go ahead if you want, but there isn’t really much to translate.

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  15. spacer Toru says:

    Its great idea. I have been thinking of making something similar, but never thought about using the WP’s built in export/inport function…

    I will be quite intersted to add few posts in Japanese into this file. Don’t know about in Russian, but in multi-byte language like Japanese, it is bit different.

  16. spacer Dan Philibin says:

    If anyone finds the need to add language-specific posts to this collection go ahead and do so, but please link back to here and let me know so I can add a link to this post. Just don’t try and translate the lorem ipsum. 😉

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  18. spacer Randa Clay says:

    Thank you very much! I’ve been planning to put something like this together myself and have just not had the time, so I appreciate it.

  19. spacer Cobus Bester says:

    Thanks guys! I’m reinstalling my local WP as I type this. Will definitely be uploading this collection of content. Thanks again!

  20. spacer Michael Martine, Remarkablogger says:

    This is a fantastic idea whose time has come. Excellent! Such a no-brainer, and yet nobody had thought of it before. spacer

  21. spacer Brian Richards says:

    Man, I was working on the exact same thing on my local dev server… then I wiped it accidentally when I was building a client site. I’m so glad you guys did this, saves me a good few hours of getting things the way I want. Yet another reason you’re so fan-freaking-tastic!

    Blessings!
    -Brian Richards

  22. spacer Ryan says:

    Excellent! Thanks for creating this.

    I made something similar a while back after I spent a few hours scouring the net trying to find a suitably large database/XML file to upload, but I never found anything.

  23. spacer Mike Smith says:

    AWESOME! Downloaded it and will be using it a LOT since I set up all of my clients themes on test installs of their own. This will save a LOT of time spacer

    Thanks
    Mike

  24. spacer Dainis Graveris says:

    Wow, original idea! I will download and test it for my needs too! Sounds like great time saver for me! Really appreciated!

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  26. spacer Stu Greenham says:

    I posted this on the 8th of September, exactly the same idea, XML download file spacer

    selfconclusion.co.uk/2008/09/wordpress-xml-import-download/

  27. spacer kucrut says:

    great idea. thanks!

  28. spacer liam says:

    Clever stuff, nice one!

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  34. spacer Ryan says:

    I’m just in the process of setting up a WordPress demo sites to test themes on…this couldn’t come at a better time! This will be super handy, so thanks for offering it!

  35. spacer Doug says:

    Okay, great timing!

  36. spacer John says:

    Brilliant, but with one major flaw – no comments???

    Thankyou for putting this together though! Very very useful

  37. spacer Mig Pilot says:

    Fantastic stuff. We are about to start work on a big WP based site for a client, so this could not have come at a better time. Great thinking, a really useful idea. Thanks for doing and offering it.

  38. spacer mGz says:

    You save for me about an hour on each WP project. I luv Ya!
    kthxbye spacer

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  41. spacer Th3ProphetMan says:

    Nice work, i think you only need to add some comments to one of the post, from post author, blog author etc and normal non author comments spacer

    Thanks for this 😀