Jamie Le Souef

For some time I’ve been looking around for the default text that you seen on Wordpress.org themes – text that shows each element and how it will look in any given blog. Such a source of text would be fantastic for theme developers like myself.

Look back over it, I don’t know why I just didn’t create this myself.. but oh well, hind site is a wonderful thing.

The lads, or should a say a Lad (Dan Philibin) over at WP Candy has created such sample WordPress content ready for all your theme needs.

Here’s what’s int he importable XML file.

• Multiple posts with different elements in each
• 12 Posts to force pagination
• Block quotes, lists – ordered and unordered – and floating images
• Comments on a few of the posts
• Parent, child, and grandchild categories and pages
• Tags
• Multiple months for the archives

Installing the sample content couldn’t be easier as well

Then, log in to your WordPress admin panel and navigate to Manage>Import. Select the WordPress option from the bottom of the list, choose your file, and upload it. Within a few minutes you should have a ready-to-go development server.

Head on over toWP Candy and grab the zip file

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There are 4 Responses to “ Default Sample Content for Wordpress Theme development ”

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Bill Says

That’s some pretty cool stuff! Thanks for the link.
Bill´s last blog ..Ten Ways to $10k

July 20th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

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Damon Says

Looks like wpcandy has a great package. I downloaded a custom themes package a while ago from another guy and discovered that I didn’t like most of it. I did find a couple that worked for me though, so I guess that’s all that matters… eh?

July 29th, 2009 at 8:53 am

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A Bary Says

Always looking for solutions about wordpress, seems I’ll spend sometime hear! Thanks for the tips

August 12th, 2009 at 8:07 am

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Web design melbourne Says

I didn’t hear about WPCandy ever before reading this blog post. i guess it will help me out for installing in other wordpress themes also. Thanks for sharing it.

August 13th, 2009 at 12:35 am

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