I would like to know if there’s a way to populate a WordPress site with some dummy content while installation process is going on. Let’s say a few sample pages, a fews posts, taxonomy and that’s it.
I’m not sure if this is possible since I haven’t found proper documentation.
Searching for another thing, just stumbled upon this gem by @anmari 🙂
You have to put a Dropin plugin at the root of wp-content.
Should be named install.php and contain a new version of the pluggable function wp_install_defaults.
I used this gist for testing. And the only modification from the original function is the default category name and slug.
There’s a similar Q&A at StackOverflow and Michael notice is worth copying:
Since a default category of some kind is assumed, it’s a good idea to create a least one category
