The WPCF is a WordPress generated WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) file generated with a complete set of sandbox data that you can use for theme, plugin, CSS, or other development that requires you to have a broad set of sample data to work from. This particular file contains information about a site's posts, pages, comments, categories, menus, and other content.
WPCF 2.4 was generated for WordPress 4.1.1. It may work with older or newer versions of WordPress as well. In general, the standard WordPress uses for its WXR file is consistent enough that it's not extremely version specific. Unsupported data will usually just be ignored in older versions.
You can always download the latest tagged release on our GitHub page. However, you should normally be able to download the latest copy of the Master branch and still have no issues. Commits pulled into Master before a release should be stable enough for general use. More likely than not, commits pulled into Master before a tag will usually just have to do with typos and simple things like that. The Development branch, on the other hand, is never guaranteed to be stable, but hey, feel free to live dangerously if you like.
To import this information into a WordPress site follow these steps:
- If you aren't running your version of WordPress on localhost, you may want to do a find/replace on the WXR file for http://localhost and put in your domain.
- Log in to that site as an administrator.
- Go to Tools: Import in the WordPress admin panel.
- Install the "WordPress" importer from the list (WordPress will attempt to download and install a plugin for this, it's okay).
- Activate & Run Importer.
- Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
- You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the site. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the site or to create a new user. By default, it should try to just map them to 'admin.'
- WordPress will then import each of the posts, pages, comments, categories, etc. contained in this file into your site.
- WPCF makes use of http://www.fillmurray.com/ to provide example imagery on posts and pages, a product of @davecowart.
- The markdown version of our Creative Commons license is based on the work of Creative Commons Markdown by Jan T. Sott.
