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1. gr1zzly
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi folks,

   I need some test data for theme development, any format that will import using phpMyAdmin is fine but SQL for preference.

   Done the usual google and found a couple in XML format but they don't import using phpMyAdmin. Have tried the wordpress importer plugin but it doesn't have write access to the 'uploads' folder. -- I'm running a Ubuntu based LAMP server (I'm new to Linux) and it has the root privileges locked down so my only hope is to have raw database dump from phpMyAdmin to use.

   Any help please?

2. Chantal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You can import the xml file using wp-admin > tools > import

3. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Also:

   http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/test-data.2010-08-02.xml
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-data-for-themers?replies=2

4. gr1zzly
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @ChantalC - Yeh I tried that, but as I said my Ubuntu linux setup won't let WordPress 'upload' the file to the folder. (I'm using a LAMP localhost development server).

   @MichaelH - Yeh I've downloaded both of the test data set's you've listed, but as I've described to ChantalC above, WordPress can't upload them to install the data. Hence the need for a "pure from phpMyAdmin" exported SQL / XML file.

   Failing that are there any Linux LAMP guru's on here can tell me how to safely and securely allow WordPress write privileges to it's own folder system?

5. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You do need to install http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/

6. gr1zzly
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @MichaelH - I appreciate the suggestions but this doesn't work for me...

   After manually downloading, installing and activating the 'wordpress-importer' plugin I went to 'Tools > Import' again and selected WordPress from the list of import options. I got the file selection screen and selected the XML file, then I clicked the 'Upload and Import' button...

   This is where I get an error message saying that the import process Failed because it was unable to upload the file to the folder!

   -- As I said before, Linux's folder permissions wont allow this so I need another "non-WordPress Admin panel" solution, hence the request for a raw SQL file that I can install using phpMyAdmin!

7. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just did a test import with folder permissions (e.g wp-content/uploads/2010/11/) set to 755 on linux host and it worked just fine.

8. gr1zzly
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmm that's odd, doesn't seem to work for me?!

   I tried chmod 755 and 775 but neither would give me access -- I think Ubuntu is a bit funny when it comes to 'root' permissions. Then again I am a bit a Linux n00b! -- Anyway in the end I tried setting the permissions to 777 (once I was safely offline) and it worked! (restored them to 755 after of course)

   So I have now successfully added lwallenstein's test data from your second link above: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-data-for-themers?replies=2 and can highly recommend it as a very useful and complete set of test data. It's the best one I've seen yet!

   As for my permissions issue I dunno, any ideas why my system setup wouldn't work with '755'? -- I may start a new thread or look for support from apache / ubuntu forums.

   Thanks for the help though!

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