Adv WP CLI

Advanced WP CLI talk for WP Leeds dev night

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1. Advanced
   WP CLI
   A WPLeeds talk by Tom J Nowell
   

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2. I’m Tom J Nowell
   Code For The People
   

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3. I’ll Cover
   ● What is WP CLI
   ● Some WP CLI Commands & Usage
   ● Demo
   

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4. WP CLI
   WordPress, Command Line Interface
   A tool for terminal users
   

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5. What is The Terminal?
   

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7. Once installed, open your WordPress folder on
   the terminal
   GIF by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks
   

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8. Some of the Things WP CLI Can Do
   ● Create Posts
   ● Create Users
   ● Download plugins and themes
   ● Database Queries
   ● Installing WordPress
   

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9. E.g. Adding an author to a site:
   ❯ wp user create bob bob@example.com
   --role=author
   

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10. Listing activated plugins
    ❯ wp plugin list --status=active --
    format=csv --fields=name
    

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11. Doing a Search replace
    ❯ wp search-replace oldsite.com
    newsite.com
    

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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
    

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13. A demonstration
    

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14. Questions?
    Tom J Nowell
    @tarendai
    tomjn.com
    

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