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Quickly populate Advanced Custom Fields with lorem ipsum text, placeholder stock images and more.

This plugin requires at least ACF Pro 5.8.
If you don’t already own ACF Pro, you should consider it. It’s one of the most powerful WordPress plugins available.

How It Works

When using this plugin there will be an eyedropper icon next to each ACF label in the admin that when clicked, will instantly auto-populate that field with sample content.

This applies to all ACF Pro field types!

Auto-populate image fields with stock/placeholder imagery
Auto-populate text fields with generated lorem ipsum
Auto-populate wysiwyg fields with lorem ipsum paragraphs
Auto-choose random posts & taxonomies on relational fields
Auto-choose values on Advanced fields
Auto-choose choices from choice fields
Auto-populate multiple rows of fields on Repeaters (PRO)
Auto-populate all layouts on Flexible Content fields (PRO)
Auto-populate all fields in Groups (PRO)
Auto-populate Galleries with placeholder images (PRO)
Auto-populate wysiwyg fields with rich content (PRO)

Field validation rules are taken in to a count and will be respected when using the auto-populator.

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Usage

There will be an eyedropper icon next to each ACF label in the admin that when clicked, will instantly auto-populate that field with sample content.

Eyedropper Icon Locations

Most fields: Next to the ACF field label
Field groups (PRO): When hovering over the field group meta box, the eyedropper icon will appear in the top right of the title bar
ACF Layout (PRO): When hovering over the layout’s title bar, the eyedropper icon will appear in the top right next to the other default ACF action icons

For most fields you will find an eyedropper icon next to the ACF field label that when clicked will do the sample content populate on that field. For field groups, you will find the eye dropper icon in the top right of the

How does it work with groups?

When populating groups with sample content, it populates all subfields recursively within the group with one click!

How does it work with repeaters?

When populating repeaters with sample content, it will first add a few rows to you repeater field, then auto-populate all subfields recursively within each row – with one click!

How does it work with flexible content?

When populating a flexible content field, the plugin intelligently will find all of your configured layouts for your flexible content field, then adds each one AND auto-populates all of the subfields within each layout recursively.

1.0.3

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1.0.2

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1.0.1

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1.0.0

Initial release

Activate the plugin
Navigate to “Sample Content” settings which can be found on the left-hand menu of your admin
Either use the search prompts to import sample imagry or choose your own in the Sample Image Inventory
Repeat step 3 for videos and files if you wish

And that’s it! From here it is happy auto-populating!

Version: 1.0.3
Last updated: 3 months ago
Active installations: 0
WordPress version: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.5.5
PHP version: 5.6