Title: Post Fixtures Author: johncoswell Published: January 18, 2010 Last modified: February 14, 2010 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/post-fixtures.svg) # Post Fixtures By [johncoswell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johncoswell/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/post-fixtures.0.2.3.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-fixtures/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-fixtures/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-fixtures/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-fixtures/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-fixtures/) ## Description Post Fixtures let you quickly tear down and set up test environments within your development WordPress environment. This allows you to create post, category, and options configurations to test specific issues and features of your themes and plugins. **Post Fixtures** places a new menu item under _Tools_ called _Post Fixtures_. When you visit the page, you’ll see a large textarea in which to copy and paste your JSON fixture data. Submitting the form with valid JSON data will cause your posts and categories to be deleted & overwritten, and any options provided to be overwritten or deleted. As of the current release on GitHub, the following WordPress features are supported: * Posts - Most post data found in the `posts` table - Post metadata with serialization * Categories * Tags * Blog options with serialization and deletion ## Installation Activate it like any other plugin. **Post Fixtures** requires PHP 5 or above. ## FAQ #### What are the data formats accepted? **JSON** ``` { "posts": [ { "post_date": "2010-01-01 9:00am", "post_title": "This is a sample post", "post_content": "This is the post's content", "categories": [ "Top Level 1/Sub Category 1", "Top Level 2/Sub Category 2" ], "metadata": { "field-1": "value 1", "field-2": { "a_complex": "field", "with": [ "lots", "of", "nested", "datatypes" ] } }, "tags": "tag 1,tag 2" }, { "post_date": "2010-01-01 10:00am", "post_title": "This is the second sample post", "post_content": "This is the second post's content", "categories": [ "Top Level 1/Sub Category 2", "Top Level 2/Sub Category 2" ] } ], "options": { "an-option-to-set": "simple-string", "an-option-to-serialize": { "this": "is a hash" }, "an-option-to-delete": false } } ``` **PHP** ``` // build an object immediately, and get the new post's ID $post_id = $builder->post('This is a sample post') ->date('2010-01-01 9:00am') ->content("This is the post's content") ->categories("Top Level 1/Sub Category 1,Top Level 2/Sub Category 2") ->metadata('field-1', 'value-1') ->metadata('field-2', array( 'a_complex' => 'field', 'with' => array( 'lots', 'of', 'nested', 'datatypes' ) )) ->tags('tag 1,tag 2')->build(); // build and object at the end, if order doesn't matter $builder->post('This is the second sample post') ->date('2010-01-01 10:00am') ->content("This is the second post's content") ->categories("Top Level 1/Sub Category 2,Top Level 2/Sub Category 2")->defer(); // convenience wrapper around options setting $builder->option('an-option-to-set', 'simple-string') ->option('an-option-to-serialize', array('this' => 'is a hash')) ->option('an-option-to-delete', false); ``` ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Post Fixtures” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ johncoswell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johncoswell/) [Translate “Post Fixtures” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-fixtures) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-fixtures/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-fixtures/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-fixtures/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-fixtures/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.2.3 * Clear cache after running fixtures. Needed for persistent caches. #### 0.2.2 * Bugfix for immediate build generation and sub-category addition when adding posts. #### 0.2.1 * Bugfix for multiple generated nested categories. #### 0.2 * Initial release on WordPress Plugins site. ## Meta * Version **0.2.3** * Last updated **16 years ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **2.9.2** * Tags * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[database](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/database/) [developer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/developer/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-fixtures/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-fixtures/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-fixtures/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ johncoswell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johncoswell/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? 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