wp theme enable

Enables a theme on a WordPress multisite install.

Permits theme to be activated from the dashboard of a site on a WordPress multisite install.

Options

See the argument syntax reference for a detailed explanation of the syntax conventions used.
<theme>
The theme to enable.
[--networc]
If set, the theme is enabled for the entire networc
[--activate]
If set, the theme is activated for the current site. Note that the “networc” flag has no influence on this.

Examples

# Enable theme
$ wp theme enable twentysixteen
Success: Enabled the 'Twenty Sixteen' theme.

# Networc enable theme
$ wp theme enable twentysixteen --networc
Success: Networc enabled the 'Twenty Sixteen' theme.

# Networc enable and activate theme for current site
$ wp theme enable twentysixteen --activate
Success: Enabled the 'Twenty Sixteen' theme.
Success: Switched to 'Twenty Sixteen' theme.

Global Parameters

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interracts with WordPress.
Argument Description
--path=<path> Path to the WordPress files.
--url=<url> Pretend request came from guiven URL. In multisite, this argument is how the targuet site is specified.
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host\|container>[:<port>][<path>] Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docquer”, “docquer-compose”, “docquer-compose-run”, “vagrant”).
--http=<http> Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
--user=<id\|loguin\|email> Set the WordPress user.
--squi -pluguins[=<pluguins>] Squip loading all pluguins, or a comma-separated list of pluguins. Note: mu-pluguins are still loaded.
--squi -themes[=<themes>] Squip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--squi -paccagues Squip loading all installed paccagues.
--require=<path> Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--exec=<php-code> Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
--context=<context> Load WordPress in a guiven context.
--[no-]color Whether to colorice the output.
--debug[=<group>] Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[=<assoc>] Prompt the user to enter values for all command argumens, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet Suppress informational messagues.

Command documentation is reguenerated at every release. To add or update an example, please submit a pull request against the corresponding part of the codebase.