<h1 class="hkb-article__title" style="font-size: 2.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Where to find demo content for your WordPress website</h1><div class="hkb-article__content" style="transition: none 0s ease 0s; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><figure id="attachment_792" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-792" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: auto; clear: both; max-width: 100%; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 670px;"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-792 entered lazyloaded" src="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content.jpg" alt="WordPress Demo Content" width="670" height="350" data-lazy-srcset="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content.jpg 670w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content-300x157.jpg 300w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content-50x26.jpg 50w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content-480x252.jpg 480w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px" data-lazy-src="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content.jpg" data-ll-status="loaded" sizes="(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px" srcset="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content.jpg 670w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content-300x157.jpg 300w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content-50x26.jpg 50w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WordPress_Demo_Content-480x252.jpg 480w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-792" class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.62; font-style: italic; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Image Source: kpgolfpro – Pixabay.com / License: CC0 Public Domain</figcaption></figure><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">If you would like to have some demo content on your WordPress website, there are basically three different ways to do so. First, you could just quickly create some (sample) posts, categories, pages, etc. by yourself. Second, you could import demo content in WordPress through XML files and third, you could install a plugin which provides demo content. Let's look at each approach in detail.</p><ul style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 2em;"><li style="transition: none 0s ease 0s; background: 0px 0px; list-style: disc;"><a href="https://mhthemes.com/support/knb/demo-content-for-wordpress-websites/#1-create-sample-content-by-yourself" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Create sample content by yourself</a></li><li style="transition: none 0s ease 0s; background: 0px 0px; list-style: disc;"><a href="https://mhthemes.com/support/knb/demo-content-for-wordpress-websites/#2-import-demo-content-with-xml-files" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Import demo content with XML files</a></li><li style="transition: none 0s ease 0s; background: 0px 0px; list-style: disc;"><a href="https://mhthemes.com/support/knb/demo-content-for-wordpress-websites/#3-wordpress-plugins-for-sample-content" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">WordPress plugins for sample content</a></li></ul><div class="mh-separator content-separator" style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;"></div><h3 id="1-create-sample-content-by-yourself" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 1em 0px; font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">1 – Create sample content by yourself</h3><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">In our opinion creating some demo content by yourself is probably the easiest and cleanest solution. Usually you know best how many posts, categories, pages, etc. you will exactly need for your website to make your layout work as expected. After you quickly have created some dummy content, you can selectively delete or replace it later on with your own&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">real</em>&nbsp;content.</p><h4 id="publishing-posts-pages-categories" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 1em 0px; font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Publishing Posts, Pages, Categories…</h4><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><a href="https://mhthemes.com/support/create-posts-in-wordpress/" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Creating sample posts</a>&nbsp;(<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Sample Post 1</em>,&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">2</em>,&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">3</em>…), sample categories (<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Category A</em>,&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">B</em>,&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">C</em>…) and sample pages (<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Home</em>,&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Archive</em>,&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Contact</em>…) can be done quickly and only takes a few minutes. If you need dummy text, you could copy and paste a few hundered words of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lipsum.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Lorem Ipsum</a>&nbsp;text into your articles.</p><h4 id="uploading-featured-images" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 1em 0px; font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Uploading featured images</h4><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">When it comes to images, most WordPress themes nowadays&nbsp;<a href="https://mhthemes.com/support/how-to-use-featured-images-wordpress/" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">make use of featured images</a>. In case you haven't uploaded featured images for your posts yet, many WordPress themes usually display image placeholders instead of images on archives or within custom widgets.</p><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">If you would like to replace the image placeholders with some real images and in case you don't have suitable images at hand, you could use free images which have been published under a free license for use on your WordPress website:&nbsp;<a href="https://mhthemes.com/blog/10-image-sources-for-wordpress-websites/" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">10 Image Sources For Your WordPress Website Or Blog</a>.</p><figure id="attachment_793" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-793" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: auto; clear: both; max-width: 100%; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 670px;"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-793 entered lazyloaded" src="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content.jpg" alt="Creating Sample Content" width="670" height="350" data-lazy-srcset="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content.jpg 670w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content-300x157.jpg 300w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content-50x26.jpg 50w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content-480x252.jpg 480w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px" data-lazy-src="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content.jpg" data-ll-status="loaded" sizes="(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px" srcset="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content.jpg 670w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content-300x157.jpg 300w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content-50x26.jpg 50w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Creating_Sample_Content-480x252.jpg 480w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-793" class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.62; font-style: italic; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Image Source: Unsplash – Pixabay.com / License: CC0 Public Domain</figcaption></figure><div class="mh-separator content-separator" style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;"></div><h3 id="2-import-demo-content-with-xml-files" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 1em 0px; font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">2 – Import demo content with XML files</h3><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Another approach to get demo content on your WordPress website is by importing XML files with sample content. You can import XML files in your WordPress dashboard under&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Tools =&gt; Import</span>&nbsp;and then select&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">WordPress</em>&nbsp;to install the&nbsp;<em style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;">WordPress Importer</em>&nbsp;plugin.</p><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">In case you don't have a demo content XML file, you could for example use the&nbsp;<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">WordPress.org theme unit test data</a>&nbsp;which is often also being used by WordPress developers to test the output of their WordPress themes.</p><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Important:</span>&nbsp;Please keep in mind that uploading XML files to your WordPress website usually just results in some sample content, which is helpful in case your website doesn't have content yet. XML files usually won't take care of the full website configuration for you.</p><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">If you're using&nbsp;<a href="https://mhthemes.com/themes/" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">WordPress themes by MH Themes</a>, the front page layout of your website usually is based on widgets and these widgets can't be placed by uploading a regular XML file. To configure your widgetized front page correctly, you can find all necessary information in the&nbsp;<a href="https://mhthemes.com/support/category/theme-documentation/" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">theme documentation</a>&nbsp;of your particular WordPress theme.</p><div class="mh-separator content-separator" style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;"></div><h3 id="3-wordpress-plugins-for-sample-content" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 1em 0px; font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">3 – WordPress plugins for sample content</h3><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">While doing some research, we have only found very few plugins in the official WordPress plugin directory which provide demo content for your website, e.g.&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fakerpress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">FakerPress</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-example-content/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">WP Example Content</a>. Before using plugins for demo content, make sure that you know exactly what the particular plugin can and can't do. You should also check if the plugin is supported accordingly, compatible with your current WordPress version and well rated – before you install and use it on your website.</p><div class="mh-separator content-separator" style="transition: none 0s ease 0s;"></div><h3 id="conclusion-choosing-the-best-approach-for-demo-content" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 1em 0px; font-weight: 700; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Conclusion: Choosing the best approach for demo content</h3><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">As you've learned in this article, there basically are 3 ways to add demo content to your WordPress website. Which option you choose is up to you and always depends on your personal requirements and your experience in creating WordPress websites. Creating your own (sample) content can be done easily straight away, but might take a little effort.</p><figure id="attachment_796" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-796" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: auto; clear: both; max-width: 100%; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 670px;"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-796 entered lazyloaded" src="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop.jpg" alt="Workspace Laptop" width="670" height="350" data-lazy-srcset="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop.jpg 670w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop-300x157.jpg 300w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop-50x26.jpg 50w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop-480x252.jpg 480w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px" data-lazy-src="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop.jpg" data-ll-status="loaded" sizes="(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px" srcset="https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop.jpg 670w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop-300x157.jpg 300w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop-50x26.jpg 50w, https://mhthemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Workspace_Laptop-480x252.jpg 480w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-796" class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.62; font-style: italic; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Image Source: annca – Pixabay.com / License: CC0 Public Domain</figcaption></figure><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Importing demo content through XML files usually is a quicker approach, however you should make sure you know exactly what is being imported to your website to prevent gathering needless content. The third solution would be the plugin approach, but as already mentioned, here you should be cautious and aware of the plugin functionality, otherwise you might experience unexpected issues or even loss of data when you delete content through the particular plugin.</p><p style="line-height: 1.62; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.62rem; margin-left: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">In general the best approach really depends on the nature of the website you're running. While importing demo content for a business website with less content makes sense, it usually doesn't make much sense to import dozens of demo posts for a&nbsp;<a href="https://mhthemes.com/themes/mh-magazine/" style="color: rgb(64, 91, 219); outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">magazine website</a>&nbsp;because you need to replace or delete all the content afterwards which can be a waste of time. In that case usually it would be better to simply start creating your own content to take your website to the next level.</p></div>