Announcing an update to Sample Product Data
If you build themes or plugins for WooCommerce, testing is only as good as the data you are working with. Spinning up a new local environment and trying to test complex features with a blank store is a headache. We know because we’ve been there.
That’s why we’re announce version 2.0 of our Sample WooCommerce Product Data!
This is a 100% free, set of sample data available for any and all to use. We rely on this dataset every single day as a core part of our own development and testing process. Releasing it to the public is just one small way we can give back to the open-source community.
You can grab the latest release over on GitHub right now: Download v2.0 Sample Data
What’s New in Version 2.0?
Here is what we added:
- Support for New Core Fields: We expanded the sample data to include additional testing information for newer core fields, specifically Brand and GTIN, UPC, EAN, or ISBN.
- Smarter Tagging for Lifecycle Management: We updated and added additional tags to the sample product data. This makes it significantly easier to bulk-add, filter, and sort products while you test, and—most importantly—easy to cleanly remove them once your testing is done.
- “Bad” Data for Better Testing: We’ve purposely included “bad” sample data covering additional tricky scenarios that theme and plugin developers might face in the wild.
- More Colors, More Images: We added fresh sample images and populated the products with a much wider variety of color options so you can accurately test complex variable products and galleries.
- A Pride Month Beanie: Just for fun (and to give you an incredibly robust variable product to test with), we updated the sample beanie product to include every color for Pride month!
Built by Developers, for Developers
Whether you are designing a sleek new Woo theme, writing a complex inventory management plugin, or just trying to replicate a weird bug for a client, having reliable, varied, and easily manageable dummy data is a total game-changer.
We hope this updated dataset saves you as much time and frustration as it has for us.
Head over to our GitHub repository, download the XML or CSV files, and import them right into your WordPress install: