Introducing WP Lipsum, a WordPress plugin for instant dummy content and style guides
WP Lipsum is a simple plugin for generating dummy text/style guides for your WordPress site, using fake “lorem ipsum” text and dummy images. This intended for use by theme developers and project managers while building out sites.
http://bedrocktheme.com/wp-lipsum
I had been working on a dummy content kit for my Bedrock theme framework (under construction!). Then my friend @sensoredmedia made the complaint that there’s no good Styleguide plugin, like they have in Drupal.
So I went ahead and put my dummy content kit into plugin form. This is under construction, but already I’ve found it very useful. Best of all, it’s super easy to add your own additional lipsum templates – great for working on multi-language sites, or other specialized uses.
Update – New Version
Thanks for all the great feedback on my 1st plugin! I’ve updated this so it works with over 20 template fragments now, useful for lots of diferrent types of pages and content.
Learn more here, or check out examples of the basic content page or the auxiliary content page.
Download it now from the WordPress plugin directory:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-lipsum/
If this sounds useful to you, please try it out and let me know how it does. And if you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them!
I think this looks pretty cool and very useful. The code looks simple enough too, which is great – small projects with large gains are awesome.I do think some padding on the tables in the second example would do this more justice though!Please keep me updated with more cool stuff like this in the future!
Thanks for comment jwdunne!I should have been clearer, the plugin actually just spits out raw HTML, no CSS. It’s up to the theme to style the stuff. But I do need to style my demo example better :)
Nice work Dylan! This will be added to our default plugins list. Thanks for getting it out there (I should complain more).