# Seeding a new forum by creating users and content

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeding-a-new-forum-by-creating-users-and-content/49345>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 28, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeding-a-new-forum-by-creating-users-and-content/49345 "2016-08-28T20:29:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeding-a-new-forum-by-creating-users-and-content/49345/16 "2017-04-21T19:54:06Z")

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Two notes:

- `post_ids[]` is a comma-separated array, you can do multiple
- doing this creates a revision on the post

It’s better to do an import script.

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