WP CLI Cheatsheet

wp-cli.md

WP CLI cheatsheet

You may need to be at the root of your WP install. In Local by Flywheel this will be the app directory.

Backup database

wp db export your/path/here/my_wordpress_db.sql

Import database

wp db import your/path/here/my_wordpress_db.sql

Ye' ol' database url search and replace (handles serialization)

wp search-replace 'http://oldurl.com' 'http://newurl.com'

Add --dry-run to test.

You may need to change the siteurl and home url as well.

Change siteurl and home

wp option update home 'http://new.url'

wp option update siteurl 'http://new.url'

Search for a plugin

wp plugin search "yoast acf"

Install and activate plugin

wp plugin install --activate plug-in-slug

Install plugins from a text file

wp plugin install --activate $(<plugin-slugs.txt)

Install plugins all in one line

wp plugin install --activate stop-emails modify-comment-parent simple-google-analytics-tracking

Update all plugins

wp plugin update --all

Overwrite local changes from remote

git fetch --all

git reset --hard origin/master

or

git reset --hard origin/<branch_name>

Install WP CLI directly on machine (not using Local Flywheel)

brew install wp-cli

Use WP CLI on a Local Flywheel site from commandline

If you want to make a export/import a database backup quickly with the commandline and don't want to go to the Local app, right-click your site to ssh in:

1. Install wp cli: brew install wp-cli mysql if you don't already have these on your system
2. In your ~/Local Sites/{{ sitefolder }} folder (app, conf, logs folders are here too): curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/salcode/ssh-into-local-by-flywheel/master/wpcli-lbf-setup && bash wpcli-lbf-setup && rm -rf ./wpcli-lbf-setup*
3. In Local, under the Database tab enter the Remote Host ip and Remove Port when prompted by the script
4. Your folder should now contain: app, conf, logs, wp-cli.local.php, wp-cli.local.yml

Test to see if it works but opening up a terminal somewhere in your site folder and trying a cli command. Eg. wp option get siteurl should show your site url. Now you can make backups simply, even from the VSCode terminal: wp db export your/path/here/my_wordpress_db.sql. Combine this with git lfs and you can keep your database in your git repo.

https://salferrarello.com/wp-cli-local-by-flywheel-without-ssh/

*I wonder if this could be shortened to curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/salcode/ssh-into-local-by-flywheel/master/wpcli-lbf-setup | bash

Run remotely

wp --ssh=username@example.com/var/www/html/ plugin list

Export from staging, search and replace, import to prod

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/bxftxk/how_are_people_managing_wordpress_release/eq6kjz6/?st=k0s6kcqj&sh=e21fea0f