Dummy content for Wordpress

Designing and coding a Wordpress theme is often a pretty straightforward task: You write one or multiple implementations of the Loop in the corresponding template files, add some CSS and images and you’re basically good to go. Obviously you’ll want to test before uploading the theme to your live blog. So you set up a local server and install Wordpress.

You’ll notice that there is a lot of tweaking to be done on the theme, but that’s why you are testing the theme in the first place. However, even after testing it on a local installation of Wordpress, you may discover a few flaws after launching the theme. Apparently, the testing wasn’t thorough enough.

Luckily, we can add dummy content to our (local) Wordpress installation with only a few clicks. You do need a useful data dump from another blog, though. I have found a dump of the dummy content used for the sndbx theme contest, together with some instructions on how to use it. The good thing about it is that it contains a wide variety of content. Not only a lot of common (and less common) HTML elements, but also different types of comments (pingbacks, trackbacks), content (pages, paged posts) and large images that can fubar your layout if you don’t deal with them.

I suppose that if your theme works with this on your local server, it will probably stand a good chance on the ‘Interweb.’ Or can you name a better source for dummy content?

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