WP-CLI - Wordpress Command Line Interface
With WP-CLI you can manage and update core, plugins, users, themes and many more without using browsers.
Requirements
- UNIX-like environment
- PHP 5.6 or later
- WP core version 3.7 or later
Installation
Donwload the wp-cli.phar
file:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
Check if it’s working:
php wp-cli.phar --info
To be able to use the command: wp
, make this file executable:
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
Move it in your working file somewhere:
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp
Check if it works:
wp --info
Or check your WP version
wp core version
Note
If you are working on a shared hosting where you don’t have the sudo
access to the root and they don’t install WP-CLI, you still can use this but not with wp
alias. Use the following for this example wp core version
:
php wp-cli.phar core version