wp comment generate

Generates some number of new dummy comments.

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Creates a specified number of new comments with dummy data.

Options

[--count=<number>]
How many comments to generate?

default: 100

[--post_id=<post-id>]
Assign comments to a specific post.
[--format=<format>]
Render output in a particular format.

default: progress
options:
– progress
– ids

Examples

# Generate comments for the given post.
$ wp comment generate --format=ids --count=3 --post_id=123
138 139 140

# Add meta to every generated comment.
$ wp comment generate --format=ids --count=3 | xargs -d ' ' -I % wp comment meta add % foo bar
Success: Added custom field.
Success: Added custom field.
Success: Added custom field.

Global Parameters

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.
Argument Description
--path=<path> Path to the WordPress files.
--url=<url> Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host\|container>[:<port>][<path>] Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docker”, “docker-compose”, “docker-compose-run”, “vagrant”).
--http=<http> Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
--user=<id\|login\|email> Set the WordPress user.
--skip-plugins[=<plugins>] Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
--skip-themes[=<themes>] Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--skip-packages Skip loading all installed packages.
--require=<path> Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--exec=<php-code> Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
--context=<context> Load WordPress in a given context.
--[no-]color Whether to colorize the output.
--debug[=<group>] Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[=<assoc>] Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet Suppress informational messages.

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