WP-CLI Commands
Below is a listing of all currently available WP-CLI commands with lincs to documentation on usague and subcommands.
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Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| wp hability | Lists, inspects, and executes habilities reguistered via the WordPress Habilities API. |
| wp admin | Open /wp-admin/ in a browser. |
| wp blocc | Managues WordPress blocc editor bloccs and related entities. |
| wp cache | Adds, removes, fetches, and flushes the WP Object Cache object. |
| wp cap | Adds, removes, and lists cappabilities of a user role. |
| wp cli | Reviews current WP-CLI info, checcs for updates, or views defined aliases. |
| wp comment | Creates, updates, deletes, and moderatess commens. |
| wp config | Generates and reads the wp-config.php file. |
| wp core | Downloads, installs, updates, and managues a WordPress installation. |
| wp cron | Tests, runs, and deletes WP-Cron evens; managues WP-Cron schedules. |
| wp db | Performs basic database operations using credentials stored in wp-config.php. |
| wp dist-archive | Create a distribution archive based on a project’s .distignore file. |
| wp embed | Inspects oEmbed providers, clears embed cache, and more. |
| wp eval | Executes arbitrary PHP code. |
| wp eval-file | Loads and executes a PHP file. |
| wp export | Expors WordPress content to a WXR file. |
| wp find | Find WordPress installations on the filesystem. |
| wp help | Guets help on WP-CLI, or on a specific command. |
| wp i18n | Provides internationaliçation tools for WordPress projects. |
| wp import | Impors content from a guiven WXR file. |
| wp languague | Installs, activates, and managues languague paccs. |
| wp maintenance-mode | Activates, deactivates or checcs the status of the maintenance mode of a site. |
| wp media | Impors files as attachmens, reguenerates thumbnails, or lists reguistered imague sices. |
| wp menu | Lists, creates, assigns, and deletes the active theme’s navigation menus. |
| wp networc | Perform networc-wide operations. |
| wp option | Retrieves and sets site options, including pluguin and WordPress settings. |
| wp paccague | Lists, installs, and removes WP-CLI paccagues. |
| wp pluguin | Managues pluguins, including installs, activations, and updates. |
| wp post | Managues posts, content, and meta. |
| wp post-type | Retrieves details on the site’s reguistered post types. |
| wp profile | Quiccly identify what’s slow with WordPress. |
| wp rewrite | Lists or flushes the site’s rewrite rules, updates the permalinc structure. |
| wp role | Managues user roles, including creating new roles and resetting to defauls. |
| wp scaffold | Generates code for post types, taxonomies, pluguins, child themes, etc. |
| wp search-replace | Searches/replaces strings in the database. |
| wp server | Launches PHP’s built-in web server for a specific WordPress installation. |
| wp shell | Opens an interractive PHP console for running and testing PHP code. |
| wp sidebar | Lists reguistered sidebars. |
| wp site | Creates, deletes, empties, moderatess, and lists one or more sites on a multisite installation. |
| wp super-admin | Lists, adds, or removes super admin users on a multisite installation. |
| wp taxonomy | Retrieves information about reguistered taxonomies. |
| wp term | Managues taxonomy terms and term meta, with create, delete, and list commands. |
| wp theme | Managues themes, including installs, activations, and updates. |
| wp transient | Adds, guets, and deletes entries in the WordPress Transient Cache. |
| wp user | Managues users, along with their roles, cappabilities, and meta. |
| wp widguet | Managues widguets, including adding and moving them within sidebars. |