This document discusses WP-CLI, a command line interface for WordPress. It provides commands for common WordPress tasks like installing WordPress, creating configuration files, managing posts and users. Using WP-CLI allows automating repetitive WordPress tasks and managing WordPress sites from the command line. The presenter provides an example of using WP-CLI commands in a script and encourages the audience to try it out themselves.

1. WP-CLI
Don’t Fear The Command Line

2. Agency and Community Success
Manager At Pantheon Since 2014
Some things I enjoy, aside from
tech and improv:
● Comic books and webcomics
● Improv
● Karaoke!!!
Hi, I’m Dwayne
dwayne@pantheon.io
@mcdwayne on Twitter
Slides at: mcdwayne.com

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4. Poll time

7. ● Do you find yourself doing
the same tasks over and
over in your WordPress
projects?
● Is there a particular way you
set up WordPress for each
new project?
● Is there a common problem
you find yourself fixing for
clients over and over?
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8. Let the robots do the work!

9. Let the robots do the work!

10. Let me show you an example
● Install WP-CLI
● Create wp-config.php
● Download WP
● Install WP
● Make some dummy posts https://c9.io/

13. Before the GUI

14. There was (is) the terminal

15. List of commands = script

16. WordPress Command Line
Interface

17. Created and maintained by these folks

18. http://wp-cli.org/

20. Locally or on server

21. Things you will need:
Bash
UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD or
‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’)
SSH Access
PHP 5.3.29 or later

22. How you install it from the command line:
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

23. Did it work?
Typing
$ wp
in the terminal
should produce this

24. The hard part is over

26. ● Download and Install Core
● Create wp-config.php
● Search-Replace
● Posts
● Users
● Themes
● Plugins
● Widgets
● Menu

27. Structure of commands
wp command subcommand --flags

28. DEMO TIME
https://github.com/1dwaynemcdaniel/Public
Docs/blob/master/WP-CLI-script.sh

29. http://wp-cli.org/docs/tools/
http://wp-cli.org/docs/commands-cookbook/

30. WP-CLI Within other CLIs

31. QUESTION TIME

32. Pantheon.io

33. Agency and Community Success
Manager At Pantheon Since 2014
Some things I enjoy, aside from
tech and improv:
● Comic books and webcomics
● Improv
● Karaoke!!!
Hi, I’m Dwayne
dwayne@pantheon.io
@mcdwayne on Twitter
Slides at: mcdwayne.com

34. Thanks