handbook/commands/plugin/get.md

wp plugin get

Gets details about an installed plugin.

OPTIONS

<plugin>

The plugin to get.

[--field=<field>]

Instead of returning the whole plugin, returns the value of a single field.

[--fields=<fields>]

Limit the output to specific fields. Defaults to all fields.

[--format=<format>]

Render output in a particular format. --- default: table options:

• table
• csv
• json
• yaml ---

AVAILABLE FIELDS

These fields will be displayed by default for the plugin:

• name
• title
• author
• version
• description
• status

These fields are optionally available:

• requires_wp
• requires_php
• requires_plugins

EXAMPLES

# Get plugin details.
$ wp plugin get bbpress --format=json
{"name":"bbpress","title":"bbPress","author":"The bbPress Contributors","version":"2.6.9","description":"bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.","status":"active"}

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.

Argument	Description
--path=<path>	Path to the WordPress files.
--url=<url>	Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host|container>[:<port>][<path>]	Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of "docker", "docker-compose", "docker-compose-run", "vagrant").
--http=<http>	Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
--user=<id|login|email>	Set the WordPress user.
--skip-plugins[=<plugins>]	Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
--skip-themes[=<themes>]	Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--skip-packages	Skip loading all installed packages.
--require=<path>	Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--exec=<php-code>	Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
--context=<context>	Load WordPress in a given context.
--[no-]color	Whether to colorize the output.
--debug[=<group>]	Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[=<assoc>]	Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet	Suppress informational messages.