save time by managing wordpress from the command line
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Save Time by Managing WordPress from the Command
Line
WordCamp Toronto November 16, 2014
@shawnhooper
• I’m Shawn Hooper, a web application developer from Ottawa.
• I’ve been working in WordPress since 2009.
• I love the working from the command prompt, reminds me of my days running a BBS (in the days before the Internet)
Hi!
Command Line?!
Command Line?!
• A set of command line tools that allows you to manage WordPress from the command line.
• http://www.wp-cli.org/
What is WP-CLI ?
• Anyone really, but mostly:
• Developers
• Theme Designers
• Server Administrators
Who is this for?
Don’t Fear The Command Line
• http://www.wp-cli.org/
• Requires PHP 3.5.2 or later
• Requires WordPress 3.5.2 or later
• A “UNIX-like” environment:
• OSX (Macintosh)
• Linux
• Cygwin (Windows)
What do you need?
• Most shared hosts won’t allow you to use WP-CLI - you need to have SSH access to your server.
• SiteGround includes WP-CLI in their hosting plans, as does GoDaddy Managed Hosting.
• Perfect on VPS services like DigitalOcean, Linode, terminal.com
.hosts
• Download it: curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
• Set permissions: chmod a+x wp-cli.phar
• Move it somewhere useful: sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp
Installing WP-CLI
• Does it work? Type: wp
Installing WP-CLI
Installing WP-CLI
Congratulations! (that was the hard part)
Great… It’s installed. So now what….
wp <command> <sub-command> <params>
Running Commands:
<param> — required
[—param] — optional flag
[—param=<value>] — optional w/ value
Running Commands:
• Check current WordPress version, or see if there are updates available.
• Do the update!
• Install a brand new site
• Convert an existing site to Multisite!
• Verify core checksums
core
• Let’s try setting up a brand new site on a development server using: wp core download wp core config wp db create wp core install
core
• Install, Delete Plugins
• Activate & Deactivate Plugins
• Update Plugins
• Search the repository for plugins
plugin
• Time savers! wp plugin update — all wp plugin deactivate — all
plugin
The “db” command interacts with
the MySQL database.
!
wp export backup.sql wp import backup.sql wp cli
db
• Safe Search & Replace, including serialized arrays!
• Supports —dry-run
search-replace
Generate Test Content !
!
wp post generate —count=500
post
Regenerate Thumbnails
!
wp media regenerate —yes
media
Start an underscores theme!
!
wp scaffold _s mytheme
scaffold
… or a child theme
!
wp scaffold child-theme mychild —parent_theme=twentyfourteen
scaffold
… or a custom post type
!
wp scaffold post-type mycpt —theme
scaffold
Download & Activate a Theme from WordPress.org
!
wp theme install simone —activate
theme
Add any functionality you want that isn’t already included in the
WP-CLI core.
https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/wiki/List-of-community-commands
Community Commands
You can either write them as a plugin, or include it using the
—require parameter on the command line.
Community Commands
