Hitchhiker's guide
to
Arūnas Liuiza
WordPress Core Contributor, WordPress Kaunas Meetup co-organizer, WordCamp (Lithuania, Riga, Stockholm, Jyväskylä, Oslo, Norrköping, Dublin, Lisbon) speaker and one of the editors of the Lithuanian WordPress translation team.
WordPress plugin developer
Engineering Manager at
The Answer to Life, the Universe
and Everything?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
- Arthur C. Clarke,1973
/whois WP-CLI
The official command line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites.
Yup, the Terminal.
Official website: https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/
Requirements
- UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Cygwin);
- limited support in Windows environment
- limited support in Windows environment
- PHP 5.6 or later.
- WordPress 3.7 or later.
- Versions older than the latest WordPress release may have degraded functionality
Installation
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar brew install wp-cli composer global require wp-cli/wp-cli
https://deliciousbrains.com/complete-guide-to-installing-wp-cli/
The Basics
Anatomy of a Command
wp plugin update akismet --version=1.0.0
wp command action input --parameter=value
Global Parameters
--path= a path to s WordPress directory
--url= url of the site
--user= set user
--skip-themes[=theme]
--skip-plugins[=plugin]
--dry-run
--format=json|table|csv
https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/config/#global-parameters
wp ... anything
wp config
wp core
wp cache
wp comment
wp cron
wp db
wp export
wp import
wp media
wp menu
wp network
wp option
wp package
wp post
wp post-type
wp profile
wp rewrite
wp role
wp server
wp sidebar
wp search-replace
wp site
wp super-admin
wp taxonomy
wp term
wp transient
wp widget
...
DIY
Build Your Own Commands
if ( class_exists( 'WP_CLI' ) ) {
WP_CLI::add_command( 'hello', 'arunas_cli_hello' );
}
function arunas_cli_hello( $args, $options ) {
WP_CLI::success( 'Hello, World!' );
}
Questions?
Hitchhiker's guide to WP-CLI - Lisbon
By Arūnas Liuiza
Hitchhiker's guide to WP-CLI - Lisbon
WordPress Day for Developers - Lisbon, November 2024
