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Speaker

Aditya Shah

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WordCamp Nepal 2022

5-6 November. 2022

Bharatpur, Nepal

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HI!

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  • Hosting Support Lead at WPMUDEV

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  • Organizer, WordPress Bhopal Community

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  • 10+ years in WordPress��

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WP- CLI

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INTRODUCTION

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  • What is WP-CLI?

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  • Why WP-CLI?

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  • Who this is for?

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  • What would you need?

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Let’s start!

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What is WP-CLI?

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  • A set of command line tools that allows you to manage WordPress from the command line.

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  • https://www.wp-cli.org/

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Why WP-CLI?

  • Migration

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  • Performing any action takes fewer steps

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  • Gives better control

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  • Background jobs

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Who this is for?

Anyone really, but mostly:

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  • Developers

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  • Support Engineers

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  • Server Administrators

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  • Site Administrators

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Let’s get started?

What would you need-

•Install : https://wp-cli.org/

•Requires PHP 5.3.2 or later

•Requires Wordpress 3.5.2. or later

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A “UNIX-like” environment:

•OSX (Macintosh)

•Linux

•Cygwin (Windows)

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Installing WP-CLI

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  • To install WP-CLI on your server, run these commands-

$ curl -0 https://raw.githubusercont

$ chmod +x wp-cli.phar

$ mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

  • To check if the installation was successful, run-

$ wp - -info

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Running Commands

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wp <command> <sub-command> <params>

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Running Commands

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<param> – required

[--param] – optional flag

[--param=<value>] — optional w/ value

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Core

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Downloads, installs, updates & manages a WordPress installation.

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$ wp core download

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db

Performs basic database operations using credentials stored in wp-config.php.

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wp db export backup.sql

wp db import backup.sql

wp db cli

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Search-replace

Searches/replaces strings in the database, including serialised arrays.

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$ wp search-replace

‘foo’ ‘bar’

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Post

  • Generate Test Content!

wp post generate –count=500

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  • Create post with random content using Any Ipsum Plugin

wp plugin install any-ipsum —activate

wp any-ipsum generate posts 100

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Media

Regenerate thumbnails

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wp media regenerate —yes

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Create users

wp user create

wp user generate

wp user import-csv

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Let’s Connect

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@ethicaladitya

@wpmudev

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THANK YOU!

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