Save Time by Managing WordPress from the Command Line

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

Thank you! !

E-Mail: [email protected] Twitter: @shawnhooper

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http://5sen.se/wpcli/