Manage WordPress from the Command Line with WP-CLI
•
0 likes•1,203 views
Slides from my presentation given at WordCamp Tampa 2015. Save time performing common WordPress installation and maintenance tasks with the WP-CLI library.
Recommended
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to Manage WordPress from the Command Line with WP-CLI
Similar to Manage WordPress from the Command Line with WP-CLI (20)
More from Shawn Hooper
More from Shawn Hooper (12)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Manage WordPress from the Command Line with WP-CLI
- 1. WP-CLI: Save Time by Managing WordPress from the Command Line WordCamp Tampa 2015 ! Shawn Hooper Chief Technology Officer,Actionable Books @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 2. • 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! @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 3. Command Line?! @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 4. • 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 ? @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 5. • Anyone really, but mostly: • Developers • Theme Designers • Server Administrators Who is this for? @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 6. Don’t Fear The Command Line @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 7. • http://www.wp-cli.org/ • Requires PHP 5.3.2 or later • Requires WordPress 3.5.2 or later • A “UNIX-like” environment: • OSX (Macintosh) • Linux • Cygwin (Windows) What do you need? @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 8. • You need to have SSH access to use WP-CLI. Some shared hosting packages do not allow SSH access • PlanetHoster, SiteGround, Pantheon, BlueHost, GoDaddy, Media Temple, Windows Azure and more now have CLI support. • VPS services like Digital Ocean and Linode, Atlantic.net are ideal. Hosts @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 9. • Download it: curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar • Set permissions: chmod +x wp-cli.phar • Move it somewhere useful: sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp Installing WP-CLI @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 10. • Does it work? Type: wp Installing WP-CLI @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 11. Installing WP-CLI @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 12. Congratulations! (that was the hard part) @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 13. Great… It’s installed. So now what…. @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 14. wp <command> <sub-command> <params> Running Commands: @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 15. <param> — required [—param] — optional flag [—param=<value>] — optional w/ value Running Commands: @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 16. • 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 @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 17. • 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 --prompt core @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 18. • Install, Delete Plugins • Activate & Deactivate Plugins • Update Plugins • Search the repository for plugins plugin @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 19. • Time savers! wp plugin update — all wp plugin deactivate — all plugin @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 20. The “db” command interacts with the MySQL database. ! wp db export backup.sql wp db import backup.sql wp db cli db @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 21. • Safe Search & Replace, including serialized arrays! • Supports --dry-run search-replace @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 22. Generate Test Content ! wp post generate --count=500 post @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 23. Create Posts with Random Content using Any Ipsum Plugin ! wp plugin install any-ipsum — activate wp any-ipsum generate-posts 100 post @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 24. Regenerate Thumbnails ! wp media regenerate —yes media @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 25. Start an underscores theme! ! wp scaffold _s mytheme scaffold @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 26. … or a child theme ! wp scaffold child-theme mychild —parent_theme=twentyfourteen scaffold @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 27. … or a custom post type ! wp scaffold post-type mycpt — theme scaffold @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 28. Download & Activate a Theme from WordPress.org ! wp theme install simone —activate theme @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 29. wp user generate wp user import-csv Create Users @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 30. wp term list wp term create wp term generate Taxonomies @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 31. Executes PHP code * after loading the WordPress Core * eval & eval-file @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 32. wp role create wp role list wp role exists ! new: —clone flag on create role & cap @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 33. Launches PHP’s Built-in Web Server ! wp server server @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 34. 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 @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 35. You can either write them as a plugin, or include it using the —require parameter on the command line. Community Commands @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca
- 36. Thank you! Slides: www.shawnhooper.ca E-Mail: shawn@actionablebooks.com Twitter: @shawnhooper WordPress Slack: shooper @shawnhooper - shawnhooper.ca