If you work with WooCommerce, you sometimes need to create a demo site containing a large number of sample products for testing purposes. For example, you might need to do this in order to test the performance of a theme, plugin, or hosting setup. There’s no point in testing performance on a site that only has a few products – it’s much more valuable to test on a large site that replicates the biggest ecommerce stores on the market.

I ran into this problem myself when we were building our WooCommerce Product Filters plugin. One of the plugin’s main goals was to provide lightning-fast filtering regardless of the number of products. As a result, we needed a demo site containing a large number of sample products. This would allow us to test the plugin’s performance with more products, and create a plugin demo site that would showcase the plugin’s capabilities more accurately.