WP-CLI: Wordpress Command Line Tools

What is wp-cli

A command line tool to do maintenance work on a Wordpress install from the command line.

Installing

Installing wp-cli is extremely simple:

1. Place the wp-cli folder in your Wordpress root (on the same level as wp-admin and wp-content).
2. That's it!

Usage

In your terminal, go into the wp-cli folder.

Typing the following command: ./wp help, will show you an output similar to this:

Example usage:
    wp google-sitemap [build|help] ...
    wp core [update|help] ...
    wp home [help] ...
    wp plugins [status|activate|deactivate|install|delete|update|help] ...

So this tells us that there are 4 commands installed: google-sitemap, core, home and plugins. Between brackets you can see their sub commands.

Let's for example try to update the hello dolly plugin from Wordpress: ./wp plugins install hello-dolly. Output:

Installing Hello Dolly (1.5)

Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hello-dolly.1.5.zip ...
Unpacking the package ...
Installing the plugin ...

Success: The plugin is successfully installed

Adding commands

Adding commands to wp-cli is very easy. You can even add them from within your own plugin.

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.3