wp cli- don’t fear the command line

WP-CLI
Don’t Fear The Command Line

Agency and Community Success
Manager At Pantheon Since 2014
Some things I enjoy, aside from
tech and improv:
● Comic books and webcomics
● Improv
● Karaoke!!!
Hi, I’m Dwayne
dwayne@pantheon.io
@mcdwayne on Twitter
Slides at: mcdwayne.com

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Let me show you an example
● Install WP-CLI
● Create wp-config.php
● Download WP
● Install WP
● Make some dummy posts https://c9.io/

WordPress Command Line
Interface

Created and maintained by these folks

Things you will need:
Bash
UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD or
‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’)
SSH Access
PHP 5.3.29 or later

How you install it from the command line:
Download it:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-
pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
Set permissions:
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
Move it somewhere useful:
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

Did it work?
Typing
$ wp
in the terminal
should produce this

● Download and Install Core
● Create wp-config.php
● Search-Replace
● Posts
● Users
● Themes
● Plugins
● Widgets
● Menu

Structure of commands
wp command subcommand --flags

DEMO TIME
https://github.com/1dwaynemcdaniel/Public
Docs/blob/master/WP-CLI-script.sh

http://wp-cli.org/docs/tools/
http://wp-cli.org/docs/commands-cookbook/

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