WooCommerce Demo Generator

Lightweight WP-CLI tool for generating demo products and orders in WooCommerce using Faker.

Maintained by Human Made, created by Claude Code.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+
• WordPress 6.0+
• WooCommerce 8.0+

Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require humanmade/woocommerce-demo-generator

Then activate the plugin:

wp plugin activate woocommerce-demo-generator

Generating Products

Generate demo products with realistic names, descriptions, prices, and stock levels:

wp demo-products generate --count=100

Products are distributed across 8 categories: Electronics, Clothing, Home & Garden, Sports & Outdoors, Beauty & Health, Books & Media, Toys & Games, and Food & Beverages.

Options

Examples

# Generate 1000 products without images (faster)
wp demo-products generate --count=1000 --no-images

# Generate 500 electronics products
wp demo-products generate --count=500 --category=electronics

# Generate 10,000 products for load testing
wp demo-products generate --count=10000 --no-images --batch-size=200

Available Categories

View available categories with their configuration:

wp demo-products categories

Each category has 10 brands, 10 style prefixes, and 15 product types for varied product name generation.

Generating Orders

Generate demo orders with realistic customer data, addresses, and order history:

wp demo-products generate-orders --count=100

Orders include Faker-generated billing/shipping addresses, random product selections, varied order statuses, and dates spread over a configurable time range.

Options

Examples

# Generate 500 orders for specific products
wp demo-products generate-orders --count=500 --products=123,456,789

# Generate 1000 orders using only demo products
wp demo-products generate-orders --count=1000 --demo-products-only

# Generate recent orders (last 30 days)
wp demo-products generate-orders --count=200 --days=30

# Generate larger orders
wp demo-products generate-orders --count=100 --min-items=3 --max-items=10

Order Status Distribution

Orders are created with realistic status distribution:

Listing Demo Data

View summaries of generated demo data:

# List demo products by category
wp demo-products list

# List demo orders by status
wp demo-products list-orders

# Output as JSON
wp demo-products list --format=json
wp demo-products list-orders --format=json

Cleanup

Remove all demo data when no longer needed:

# Remove all demo products (and their images)
wp demo-products purge --yes

# Remove all demo orders
wp demo-products purge-orders --yes

Demo products and orders are tracked with post meta (_demo_product_generated and _demo_order_generated) so they can be cleanly removed without affecting real data.

Performance

For large imports (10,000+ items), the plugin automatically clears object caches periodically to prevent memory exhaustion. Adjust batch sizes based on your server's available memory:

# Lower batch size for limited memory
wp demo-products generate --count=10000 --no-images --batch-size=50

# Higher batch size for better performance
wp demo-products generate-orders --count=5000 --batch-size=100

Skipping images with --no-images significantly improves product generation speed.

Credits

Created by the team at Human Made.

Interested in joining? We're hiring!