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Advanced
WP CLI
A WPLeeds talk by Tom J Nowell
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I’m Tom J Nowell
Code For The People
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I’ll Cover
● What is WP CLI
● Some WP CLI Commands & Usage
● Demo
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WP CLI
WordPress, Command Line Interface
A tool for terminal users
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What is The Terminal?
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Once installed, open your WordPress folder on
the terminal
GIF by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks
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Some of the Things WP CLI Can Do
● Create Posts
● Create Users
● Download plugins and themes
● Database Queries
● Installing WordPress
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E.g. Adding an author to a site:
❯ wp user create bob [email protected]
--role=author
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Listing activated plugins
❯ wp plugin list --status=active --
format=csv --fields=name
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Doing a Search replace
❯ wp search-replace oldsite.com
newsite.com
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List blogs, and their URLs in a multisite
❯ blogs=$(wp site list --fields="site_id,
blog_id,url" --format="csv")
for entry in $blogs
do
site_id=$(echo $entry |cut -d ',' -f1 )
blog_id=$(echo $entry |cut -d ',' -f2 )
blog_url=$(echo $entry |cut -d ',' -f3 )
echo "$blog_id: $blog_url in $site_id"
done
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A demonstration
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Questions?
Tom J Nowell
@tarendai
tomjn.com