Your store may look empty, right after installing WooCommerce — no products, orders, reviews. This is intentional so you can get started creating your own products and setting up WooCommerce exactly as you need.
But maybe you’d like to see what a store full of sample orders and products looks like. If so, we’ve got some data for you!
Sample data for WooCommerce is located in a file called either sample-products.csv or sample-products.xml, which are located in the WooCommerce plugin folder in woocommerce/sample-data/. You can get it in two ways:
- Re-download WooCommerce. Open the .zip and find the files in the folder.
- Get the file from your site via SFTP, etc.
Import via WooCommerce Products
This is the recommended approach.
From the WordPress Dashboard:
- Go to: Products > All Products.
- Select Import.
- Run Importer. An Import Products screen appears.
- Select Choose file and then select the sample-products.csv file you downloaded.
- Continue. A Column Mapping screen appears.
- Scroll down and Run the Importer.
You now have sample data in WooCommerce to learn from.
Import via WordPress Importer
From the WordPress Dashboard:
- Go to: Tools > Import.
- Select WordPress.
- Run Importer.
- Select Choose file and then select the sample-products.xml file you downloaded.
- Upload file and import.
- Import our default wooteam author, create a new user, or assign the posts to an existing user. This is your call to make, though we recommend assigning the posts to an existing user.
- Tick or untick the box for Download and import file attachments. This imports all sample product images to your site if ticked.
- Submit and your sample data is imported.
