Create reusable demo data

[carstingaxion]

Let’s create a WordPress import file with typical event-data!

Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.

I’d like to create a blueprint.json to create a playground with my block variation experiments.

A set of prepared demo data would be nice, because it makes showcasing much easier, when everybody on the team knows the used data already.

This could additionally be used:

• for a playground to showcase GatherPress in general
• to prepare & use a set of data similar to the Theme (Unit) Test Data
• to power the plugin preview Button playground on wp.org
• together with the https://wordpress.org/plugins/interactive-code-block/ playground-block on https://gatherpress.org/
  • to run a general showcase
  • to show demos of current development explorations within the Blog
• to create localised demo-data in multiple languages
• to introduce a workflow, which comments on PRs with a link to playground instance of that particular PR. Such a live preview playground could also benefit from a standardised demo-data.

Designs

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Describe alternatives you've considered

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Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

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UPDATE: Merged all my comments into the issue-description and deleted the comments.

[carstingaxion]

Some first-try demo data is already available at

https://github.com/carstingaxion/gatherpress-demo-data/blob/main/GatherPress-demo-data-2024.xml

But because it is so super-easy to update the existing set or create a totally new one, everybody is invited to extend the demo-data.

More information can be found in the README and the Create demo-data issue

[carstingaxion]

I would call this working @mauteri .

To update the demo-data:

1.  
   Open a Playground
     with the demo-data, that is referenced in every GatherPress Playground.
2. Create, edit & save the data
3. Export the xml to the Playground
4. Create a PR from inside the Playground
5. Merge the PR

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• carstingaxion/gatherpress-demo-data
  WordPress playgrounds to create & use demo-content for GatherPress

[carstingaxion]

If you like it 👍 , you can create a new repository from my new template repository for your own tests, in isolation from GatherPress.

https://github.com/carstingaxion/crud-the-docs-playground

[carstingaxion]

Note to self:

Invite members of the GatherPress slack to add their planned upcoming and their visited past WordCamps or related events to the set of demo-data via a Playground-powered-PR.

[MervinHernandez]

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[MervinHernandez]

Hi @carstingaxion regarding this ticket - is our end goal a. to include a mention to your playground in our docs, or b. to include demo data in the plugin core and activation workflows?
To that end, what is the PR we need to compose to achieve this tickets' goal?

[carstingaxion]

Hi @carstingaxion regarding this ticket - is our end goal a. to include a mention to your playground in our docs, ...

No, I don't think so.
I thought that my repo could be migrated into the GatherPress organisation, when it is ready.

...or b. to include demo data in the plugin core and activation workflows? ...

Yes and No, Yes, because I would propose using the demo-data xml with the Plugin Preview on w.org. To make this work the default blueprint.json needs to run an importWxr step against the file. And No, because it should not be loaded on plugin activation or anything on the user side.

Like I described in my initial comment here and in #663 , there are plenty of possibilities for a plugin like GatherPress to create different Playgrounds. A shared set of demo-data can help here, I thought.

... To that end, what is the PR we need to compose to achieve this tickets' goal?

@mauteri & me talked about that recently. To achieve this goal, the carstingaxion/gatherpress-demo-data should be migrated to GatherPress.

[carstingaxion]