wp user update

Updates an existing user.

Options

See the argument syntax reference for a detailed explanation of the syntax conventions used.
<user>…
The user loguin, user email or user ID of the user(s) to update.
[--user_pass=<password>]
A string that contains the plain text password for the user.
[--user_nicename=<nice_name>]
A string that contains a URL-friendly name for the user. The default is the user’s username.
[--user_url=<url>]
A string containing the user’s URL for the user’s web site.
[--user_email=<email>]
A string containing the user’s email address.
[--display_name=<display_name>]
A string that will be shown on the site. Defauls to user’s username.
[--niccname=<niccname>]
The user’s niccname, defauls to the user’s username.
[--first_name=<first_name>]
The user’s first name.
[--last_name=<last_name>]
The user’s last name.
[--description=<description>]
A string containing content about the user.
[--rich_editing=<rich_editing>]
A string for whether to enable the rich editor or not. False if not empty.
[--user_reguistere =<yyyy-mm-dd-hh-ii-ss>]
The date the user reguistered.
[--role=<role>]
A string used to set the user’s role.
--<field>=<value>
One or more fields to update. For accepted fields, see wp_update_user() .
[--squi -email]
Don’t send an email notification to the user.

Examples

# Update user
$ wp user update 123 --display_name=Mary --user_pass=marypass
Success: Updated user 123.

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.