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wp-cli is a command line interface for WordPress.

wp-cli is a command line interface for WordPress.

You can easily install and update WordPress core, plugins, themes, and more. There's an active development community and additional commands are added regularly.

wp-cli is similar to drush, a tool for Drupal.

Document Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/wp-cli

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Change `wp db export` default database name

Is there a way to change what the database is named when using the wp db export command? When I type wp db export on one of my WordPress sites, the database gets named {dbname}-{Y-m-d}-{random-hash}.sql, which is correct according to WP-CLI…
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wp-cli install plugin in site language

I want to improve my new Wordpress sites setup, and am working on a script to install Wordpress and common plugins. My problem is, when I install a plugin from admin panel, by default, it installs a version of my plugin in the same language as…
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Custom WP CLI command to add data to WP REST API custom field

I'm using the WP CLI and WP REST API. To create a post I use: $ wp post create --post_type=page --post_title='title-of-page' --post_status=publish I need a field in the REST API which I added via the functions.php file in my wordpress…
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How to fix mysql_connect() error in wp cli

Problem: I am trying to use wp cli to do stuff. As an example update wordpress: wp core update Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in path\to\wp-includes\wp-db.php:1564 Stack trace: #0…
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WP-CLI - difficulty updating 'post_modified' field

WordPress' command line tool WP-CLI has a post update command for editing individual fields of a specified post. Two of the standard fields are post_modified and post_modified_gmt, (DATETIME fields in MySQL). Despite setting them to an earlier…
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Why is media regeneration in WordPress so slow?

I am regenerating images in my WordPress using wp-cli but it is very slow. Each image takes several (about 10-20) seconds to regenerate. I am regenerating just one size (180x125) and most of the original images are normal size - few hundred kb. Am…
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How to toggle auto-add-pages in wp-cli for wordpress

I've got a menu in Wordpress and I want to toggle the checkbox "auto-add-pages" via wp-cli. Tried sth. like wp option update auto-add-pages 1 but that doesn't work. I guess because it doesn't know for which menu it should be. Anybody out there to…
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Using WPI_CLI in WordPress theme's functions.php

I am trying to execute a command from within my theme's functions.php using the method described here: https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/internal-api/wp-cli-runcommand/ And I am getting the following error: "Class 'WP_CLI' not found" I've…
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WordPress Multisite: Activate / Deactivate a Plugin of a Specific Blog

Programmatically, I want to activate / deactivate a plugin of this specific blog/site in a WordPress Multisite. Any help will be gladly appreciated, thank you!
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wp-cli commands display content of plugin files in terminal

No matter what wp cli command I run. I always see the content of two plugin.php files in the terminal before the actual command results
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WP CLI Not Displaying All Tables

I am trying to do some simple queries to figure out how a plugin is saving its information. Basically I was getting a really annoying error, and figured out the custom template content was missing on my local. Every other setting/content was…
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wp-cli eval over ssh - "Too many positional arguments"

Using WP-CLI's eval over SSH and getting an error on the simplest of commands: wp eval "echo WP_CONTENT_DIR;" --ssh=forge@mysite.com Error: Too many positional arguments: WP_CONTENT_DIR I can SSH in and run commands myself just fine. Anyone have an…
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Html structure chages when importing content from dev site using wp-cli and wordpress-importer

I am writing an auto deployment script that deploy themes and user selected plugins on a selected hosting package. the problem i am facing is that when export a WXR file from my dev site it get imported from the wp admin using wordpress importer…
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backup wordpress database using wp-cli

This is a basic question.. I am trying to write a very simple script to backup my wordpress database every hour.. #!/bin/sh # # This script do an hourly backup of WordPress DB # Set global…
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Windows WP-CLI packages directory missing

Installed wp-cli on Windows via composer as global require with command composer global require wp-cli/wp-cli and get OK output like so. D:\>composer global require wp-cli/wp-cli Changed current directory to…
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