WP-CLI Example Guide

What is wp-cli?

• WP-CLI is the command line interface for WordPress.
• It is an extensible tool for installing and maintaining WordPress.
• Everything you can do from a browser, can also be done using the wp-cli.

In this guide we will learn some useful commands and create scripts to automate some common tasks.

Here are some of the most useful commands:

• wp plugin update --all Update all plugins that can be updated.
• wp db export Export the database an an SQL dump.
• wp checksum core Verifies the integrity of the WordPress core and makes sure that the core files have not been tampered with.
• wp plugin install user-switching --activate Install and activate a wordpress plugin.
• wp transient delete --all Delete transient data.

Let's automate some common tasks using wp-cli:

User Create/Update/Delete/Generate:

1. Create an editor named bob with the email bob@example.com and password b0bp@s52@0#2$3

wp user create bob bob@example.com --role=editor --user_pass=b0bp@s52@0#2$3

1. Generate 100 subscribers

wp user generate --count=100 --role=subscriber