wp term generate

Generates some terms.

In this article

Creates a specified number of new terms with dummy data.

Options

<taxonomy>
The taxonomy for the generated terms.
[--count=<number>]
How many terms to generate?

default: 100

[--max_depth=<number>]
Generate child terms down to a certain depth.

default: 1

[--format=<format>]
Render output in a particular format.

default: progress
options:
– progress
– ids

Examples

# Generate post categories.
$ wp term generate category --count=10
Generating terms  100% [=========] 0:02 / 0:02

# Add meta to every generated term.
$ wp term generate category --format=ids --count=3 | xargs -d ' ' -I % wp term 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.

Command documentation is regenerated at every release. To add or update an example, please submit a pull request against the corresponding part of the codebase.