Install
This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.
Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:
wp plugin install https://github.com/mike-bricknell-barlow/wordpress-enterprise-scaffolder/archive/refs/heads/main.zipWP Enterprise Scaffolder is a WordPress plugin that adds a WP-CLI command for rapidly generating very large volumes of test content, including postmeta and terms. It is designed for enterprise-scale performance, load, and infrastructure testing where hundreds of thousands of posts, meta records, and taxonomy terms are required.
The plugin focuses on speed and predictability rather than UI-driven data generation, and is intended to be used in development, staging, or dedicated test environments only.
Why
When testing features or performance improvements on large-scale, enterprise WordPress sites, database size is often a huge factor. Previous methods of generating test content (e.g. wp post generate) can be extremely slow, and doesn't always reflect what a production database of that size would look like.
This plugin makes generating large quantities of realistic test data quick and easy, using batched inserts and avoiding expensive queries.
Features
- Generate hundreds of thousands of posts in minutes using WP-CLI
- Currently supports 'posts' only - future updates will enable use for other post types
- Bulk creation of post meta
- Assigns taxonomy terms, including hierarchical taxonomies
- Randomised data generation
- Minimal memory usage via batched inserts
- Cleanup command to remove generated data
Requirements
- WordPress 6.0 or higher
- WP-CLI
- PHP 8.0 or higher
Installation
Via Composer or Git
Clone or install the plugin into your WordPress plugins directory:
wp-content/plugins/wp-enterprise-scaffolder/
Activate the plugin via wp-admin or via wp-cli
Usage
Generate test content
wp enterprise_scaffolder generate
Arguments
--total - Optional. The number of posts to create. Default 500,000.
--terms - Optional. The number of terms (categories/tags) to create. Default 100. Set to false to disable term generation/attribution.
--batch-size - Optional. The number of posts to insert to the database at a time. Default 1000.
--status - Optional. Post status to use for created posts. Default 'publish'.
--author - Optional. Author ID to attribute the posts to. Default none (0).
--date - Optional. The date/time to use for the inserted posts. Default current date/time.
Remove test content
wp enterprise_scaffolder clean
Benchmarks
On a small VPS (4 vCores, 4GB RAM), the plugin generated 500,000 posts with 10-20 lines of postmeta and 4-10 terms each, in 1814.7590379715 seconds (30 minutes).