Extending Your WordPress Toolbelt with WP-CLI

Extending Your WordPress Toolbelt

with WP-CLIWordCamp Raleigh 2013

Ryan Duff

Me

•WordPress Developer

•Open Source Contributor

•Sysadmin (sort of)

WP-CLI

WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress

installations.

Requirements

•UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Cygwin)

•PHP 5.3.2 or later

•WordPress 3.4 or later

How To Install

Alternate install methods:https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/wiki/Alternative-Install-Methods

curl https://raw.github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli.github.com/master/installer.sh | bash

What Does It Do?Everything... almost

Sorry… it won’t make you coffee.

Download, Configure, Install

wp core download

wp core config --dbname=wcraleigh --dbuser=wcraleigh --dbpass=wcraleigh

wp core install --url="http://site.com" --title="Site Name" --admin_user=notadmin --admin_password=somethingstrong --admin_email="user@site.com"

Install and Manage Plugins

wp plugin

listsearchinstall | deleteactivate | deactivate | toggle

update

Themes too!

Import & Export

Search & Replace too!

But wait. There’s more!

PostsComments

UsersMedia

Post Meta

2 for 1 Special

MultisiteRewritesOptions

English please?

Your Turn(aka How to Extend WP-CLI)

More InfoWeb: http://wp-cli.org/

Core Commands: http://wp-cli.org/commands/

Cookbook: https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/wiki/Commands-Cookbook

Github: https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli

Questions?

Ryan Duff

email: ryan@fusionized.com

web: http://fusionized.com

twitter: @ryancduff

github: https://github.com/ryanduff