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Easy Populate Posts

by Iulia Cazan · Uncategorized

Also makes 7 other plugins · 22.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Populate the sites with random content: title, type, terms, meta, images, status, date, parent, sticky, Gutenberg template, etc.

How scoring works →
85 Health · A
Maintenance 93/100
Rating quality 86/100
Support 70/100

85 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

92 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 65/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+53% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

191

now · peak 695

19130d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Easy Populate Posts · #11931 you ShortCut and Dummy T · #45292 Draxira · #50562 FakerPress · #1796

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

955per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

3

releases in the last 12 months

5mo ago

latest release · v4.4.5

34

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.4.5 · 5mo ago4.4.4 · 7mo ago4.4.3 · 9mo ago4.4.2 · 1.3y ago4.4.1 · 1.8y ago4.4.0 · 1.8y ago4.3.4 · 1.8y ago4.3.3 · 2.1y ago4.3.2 · 2.3y ago4.3.1 · 2.4y ago4.3.0 · 2.5y ago4.2.3 · 2.7y ago4.2.2 · 2.8y ago4.2.1 · 3.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.4 84%
v3.6 6.9%
Older / other versions 9.2%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈260

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2016-01-19 · 1,390 observations

200Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
4.4.5
Last updated
5mo ago
Added
2015-10-20 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.8
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Per Egil Roksvaag
    2.5y ago

    This plugin saves you a lot of time when you need content for testing. With a few clicks, you have populated all the fields you need.

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  2. washbert
    3.8y ago

    Plugin did exactly as expected. Its nice searching for a random process that you wanna automate and find something like this. Would like a bit more control over the content without having to modify a template, but all in all more than gets the job done.

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  3. Christina
    4.4y ago

    This is a very helpful and well organized, easy to use, clean interface plugin. Freaking love it!

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  4. karpushchenko
    5.7y ago

    It is great, thank you. But I think it is not populating 100% of posts with newly created categories.

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  5. Md Shariar Sarkar
    6.3y ago

    Tanks a lot for this tool, I really appreciate you work 🙂

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  6. lucaseugenio
    6.9y ago

    Amazing plugin, perfect for testing new themes. Actually the only one that I found, and is excellent.

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  7. FriendlyWP
    6.9y ago

    Thank so much for this plugin! Wonderful way to test out a bunch of content without having to fake it manually. I love that it can auto-delete on deactivation too. Any plans to add Gutenberg / Blocks content in future? Thanks again!

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  8. user10522three
    9.0y ago

    Hi, I love your plugin and the fact that it comes with default images. It is fast and easy to use. Though it failed to detect custom post types created using ToolSet plugin, hope you add support for it and add more options to your plugin, it has great potential. I am surprised that wordpress doesn’t have many such plugins. Thanks

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

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Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more

Romanian 92%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-02-09 300+ → 200+ down after 4 days in tier
  2. 2026-02-05 200+ → 300+ up after 14 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-22 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2026-01-20 200+ → 300+ up after 12 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-08 300+ → 200+ down after 289 days in tier
  6. 2025-03-25 400+ → 300+ down after 70 days in tier
  7. 2025-01-14 300+ → 400+ up after 5 days in tier
  8. 2025-01-09 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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