Lorem ipsum dummy article shortcode plugin
I’ve been using a lorem-ipsum generator for WordPress development for the last few years but there were some features that could be implemented better and some features that I missed.
Normally I try to contribute to existing code instead of reinventing the wheel. But the plugin I used hadn’t been updated in over two years (apart from a version bump). A ticket I filed two years earlier hadn’t been reacted upon so I decided to roll my own.
Once I got going I thought of numerous other features to implement. The main goal was not to generate lorem-ipsum text but to fake what a post or page might look like. So this includes headings, hyperlinks, strong/em, blockquotes, lists and images. And of course random lorem-ipsum text with a random seed (which is why I started this in the first place).