WooCommerce Smooth Generator

A smooth products, customer and order generator using WP-CLI. Future versions will include scheduled auto generation functionality.

Installation

WooCommerce Smooth Generator requires Composer and WP-CLI to function.

1. Clone this repository into your site's plugins folder
2. From command line CD into the cloned repository
3. From command run composer install and wait for the installation to complete
4. Run wp plugin activate wc-smooth-generator to activate the plugin
5. You now have access to a couple of new WP-CLI commands under the main wp wc generate command.

Commands

Products

Generate products based on the number of products paramater.

• wp wc generate products <nr of products>

Orders

Generate orders from existing products based on the number of orders paramater, customers will also be generated to mimic guest checkout.

Generate orders for the current date

• wp wc generate orders <nr of orders>

Generate orders with random dates between --date-start and the current date.

• wp wc generate orders <nr of orders> --date-start=2018-04-01

Generate orders with random dates between --date-start and --date-end.

• wp wc generate orders <nr of orders> --date-start=2018-04-01 --date-end=2018-04-24

Generate orders with a specific status.

• wp wc generate orders <nr of orders> --status=completed

You may wish to disable emails if creating a large number of orders as this will trigger emails. To block all emails from your site, install a plugin like Disable Emails.

Customers

Generate customers based on the number of customers paramater.

• wp wc generate customers <nr of customers>