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+# Post Fixtures for WordPress
+
+**Post Fixtures** let you quickly tear down and set up test environments within your development WordPress environment.
+This allows you to create post, category, and options configurations to test specific issues and features of your themes and plugins.
+
+## Installing
+
+### From GitHub
+
+Clone the repository into your `wp-content/plugins` directory. Activate it like a normal plugin.
+
+## Using
+
+**Post Fixtures** places a new menu item under *Tools* called *Post Fixtures*.
+When you visit the page, you'll see a large textarea in which to copy and paste your JSON fixture data.
+Submitting the form with valid JSON data will cause your posts and categories to be deleted & overwritten,
+and any options provided to be overwritten or deleted.
+
+## Creating Fixtures
+
+Fixtures for **Post Fixtures** are written in JSON. Save them with the theme/plugin you're developing and
+copy/paste them into **Post Fixtures** when you need to test specific features.
+
+### What's Supported?
+
+As of the current release on GitHub, the following WordPress features are supported:
+
+* Posts
+	* Most post data found in the `posts` table
+	* Post metadata with serialization
+* Categories
+* Blog options with serialization and deletion
+
+## Contributing
+
+The best way to contribute is forking the project on GitHub and sending a Pull Request. Be sure to include
+proper unit tests for any extra code you write. If you've found a bug or have a new feature you'd like to see,
+create a new Issue.
+
+## Example Fixture
+
+<pre>
+{
+	"posts": [
+		{
+			"post_date": "2010-01-01 9:00am",
+			"post_title": "This is a sample post",
+			"post_content": "This is the post's content",
+			"categories": [ "Top Level 1/Sub Category 1", "Top Level 2/Sub Category 2" ],
+			"metadata": {
+				"field-1": "value 1",
+				"field-2": {
+					"a_complex": "field",
+					"with": [
+						"lots", "of", "nested", "datatypes"
+					]
+				}
+			}
+		},
+		{
+			"post_date": "2010-01-01 10:00am",
+			"post_title": "This is the second sample post",
+			"post_content": "This is the second post's content",
+			"categories": [ "Top Level 1/Sub Category 2", "Top Level 2/Sub Category 2" ]
+		}
+	],
+	"options": {
+		"an-option-to-set": "simple-string",
+		"an-option-to-serialize": {
+			"this": "is a hash"
+		},
+		"an-option-to-delete": false
+	}
+}
+</pre>