Adv WP CLI

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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?

6. None

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