Guide to install WP-CLI to manage wordpress blog on SSH?

Philippe Gaucher · Apr 21, 2018

Can you guys guide me to install WP-CLI to manage my wordpress blog on SSH? I heard that using WP-CLI will make my work with WordPress easier and faster, is that true?

David Beroff · Apr 21, 2018

WP-CLI is a handy tool for managing wordpress blogs on SHH via command line. We can do a lot of work without login to the wordpress admin anymore. You can update plugins, themes, install wordpress multisite, backup, restore database, install new Wordpress...etc

Command to install WP-CLI

Download phar file:

Code:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar

Check out the phar file

Code:

 php wp-cli.phar --info

Then install:

Code:

chmod + x wp-cli.phar
mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

Command to update WP-CLI

Code:

wp cli update

Check settings

Use the following command to check:

Code:

wp --info

Result:

Code:

PHP binary:/usr/bin/php
PHP version:5.6.32
php.ini used:/etc/php.ini
WP-CLI root dir:phar://wp-cli.phar
WP-CLI vendor dir:phar://wp-cli.phar/vendor
WP_CLI phar path:/root
WP-CLI packages dir:
WP-CLI global config:
WP-CLI project config:
WP-CLI version:1.4.0

Some commands are often used. Before running wp-cli, you need to cd to the root directory of your domain.

Code:

cd /home/example.com/public_html

If you run wp-cli with root user, you must add -allow-root to the end of your command, then run wp-cli offline.

For example:

Code:

wp plugin status --allow-root

First, my example is a way to install wordpress with wp-cli quickly.

Code:

cd /home/example.com/public_html
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
unzip -q latest.zip
mv wordpress / * ./
rm -rf wordpress
rm -rf latest.zip
chown -R nginx:nginx /home/example.com/public_html/
wp core config --dbname = dataname --dbuser = username --dbpass = password --allow-root
wp core install --url = "http://example.com" --title = "website_name" --admin_user = "admin" --admin_password = "password" --admin_email = "[email protected]" allow-root

This way above is to download and install a new blog. Very fast, right?

Check plugin status:

Code:

wp plugin status

Update all plugins:

Code:

wp plugin update --all

Find a plugin:

Code:

wp plugin bulletproof search

Plug-in installation:

Code:

wp plugin install bulletproof-security

Acctivated a plugin:

Code:

wp plugin activate bulletproof-security

Once installed, just activate with command:

Code:

wp plugin install bulletproof-security --activate

Check themes status:

Code:

wp theme status

Install and activate the theme:

Code:

wp theme install theme_name --activate

Upgrade wordpress code:

Code:

wp core update

Update database after upgrade code:

Code:

wp core update-db

Database backup:

Code:

wp db export> file_name.sql

Create User:

Code:

wp user create yourname [email protected] --role=author

Hope it helps!

Guide to install WP-CLI to manage wordpress blog on SSH?

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