Adv WP CLI

Advanced WP CLI talk for WP Leeds dev night

Transcript

1. Advanced WP CLI A WPLeeds talk by Tom J Nowell
2. I’m Tom J Nowell Code For The People
3. I’ll Cover • What is WP CLI • Some WP CLI Commands & Usage • Demo
4. WP CLI WordPress, Command Line Interface A tool for terminal users
5. What is The Terminal?
7. Once installed, open your WordPress folder on the terminal GIF by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks
8. Some of the Things WP CLI Can Do • Create Posts • Create Users • Download plugins and themes • Database Queries • Installing WordPress
9. E.g. Adding an author to a site: ❯ wp user create bob bob@example.com --role=author
10. Listing activated plugins ❯ wp plugin list --status=active -- format=csv --fields=name
11. Doing a Search replace ❯ wp search-replace oldsite.com newsite.com
12. 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
13. A demonstration
14. Questions? Tom J Nowell @tarendai tomjn.com