Shortest way to install WP-CLI

Downloading the Phar file is the recommended installation method for most users. As you showed, it’s basically just one line. It can’t really get shorter than that. And the steps make sense: download the file, make it executable and move it to the right location.

There are alternative ways to install WP-CLI though. For example, if you’re using Composer, and have something like ~/.composer/vendor/bin in your PATH (or C:\Users\you\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin on Windows), you can just run:

composer global require wp-cli/wp-cli

To update everything globally, run composer global update.

Alternatively, on Debian or Ubuntu you can just download and open one of the .deb packages: https://github.com/wp-cli/builds/tree/gh-pages/deb

On macOS you can install WP-CLI via Homebrew: brew install homebrew/php/wp-cli

Related Posts:

  1. How to change a post attribute to homepage using WP CLI?
  2. WP-CLI sudden empty response
  3. WP Cli will not execute on Windows
  4. Running custom defined WP-CLI commands without WordPress installation present
  5. What user should I use for wp-cli on Ubuntu VPS [closed]
  6. bash script wp-cli search-replace 0 replacements, but command-line 3000+
  7. How to count lines in a document?
  8. WP CLI “Error establishing a database connection” in localhost (MAMP)
  9. How do I run a PHP script from WordPress environment, like `wp shell`?
  10. Using wp-cli can I not query pages by their title?
  11. wp-cli 0.14.1 MySQL error
  12. Changing the WP CLI cache folder
  13. How to use wp-cli.yml file?
  14. WP cli –path does not seem to work
  15. Enable Auto-updates for all plugins using wp-cli? (since wordpress 5.5)
  16. How do I activate an mu-plugin with WP-CLI?
  17. WP-CLI get all posts from certain post type and taxonomy term
  18. How to create a WP-CLI command with $_POST?
  19. Does wp post delete also delete metadata associated with posts?
  20. WP-CLI works on non WP-CLI installed WordPress instance?
  21. WP-CLI – Return posts with matching meta key
  22. Prompt user for input in WP CLI
  23. Generate WP-CLI @alias for each site on multisite
  24. WP-CLI throwing PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function apply_filters() [closed]
  25. WPCLI – update plugins, themes, and core, all in one row, instead 3 rows?
  26. “Could not open input file” error even when WP-CLI is in the path
  27. Revert WordPress default options after a PHPUnit test has run
  28. Can I create multiple pages at once using WP-CLI?
  29. How do I set and list page_template with wpcli?
  30. WP-CLI update date and time format
  31. WP-CLI over SSH – wp command not found
  32. WP CLI – show users whose ID is larger than given ID
  33. How can I replace all regex matches using the WP_CLI search-replace tool
  34. Wp-cli-ssh global installation problem [closed]
  35. WPCLI search and replace variants for all tables
  36. What’s the proper way to setup WP-CLI on Ubuntu so that I don’t have to use the flag –allow-root?
  37. Can I create (or update) user password with WP-CLI by hash?
  38. Is there a way to pre-cache plugins with WP-CLI for faster installation?
  39. Allow download_url for lan addresses
  40. wp-cli silently fails with 255 when running wp core install
  41. Execute wp-cli command on all sites on server
  42. wp-cli: run post generate and post meta add together
  43. Unable to install plugins from wp-cli
  44. How can I get the WP-CLI eval-file command to report errors to stderr?
  45. In a continuous integration environment how do you implement the database entries for plugins and themes
  46. How to verify a correct wp-cli installation?
  47. WP CLI Shell not working on Windows
  48. How do you kill WP-CLI execution?
  49. How to specify to wp-cli for the `wp config create` (`wp core config`) command that the DB user is an ‘all hosts’ user?
  50. Does WP-CLI support updating multiple options via a single command?
  51. How to use wp db export and import together?
  52. WP CLI not finding plugin commands
  53. WP CLI not outputting anything
  54. WP-CLI search-replace posts content for certain URLs
  55. How to retrieve text only from a post using WP CLI?
  56. wp search-replace (not executing)
  57. Bulk remove custom post type and its attachments with wp-cli?
  58. Specify custom php.ini to use with WP-CLI
  59. WP-CLI can not find Url
  60. Wrong output order when mixing WP_CLI::API and php-cli-tools
  61. Is resetting post data necessary with custom WP_CLI commands?
  62. WP-CLI not working from Bash script
  63. MySQL 5.6 Causes Errors with WP CLI
  64. Using WP-CLI, how do I delete a post by title or slug, not ID?
  65. Do all WordPress installations include WP CLI by default
  66. How can I list all installed plugins/themes/versions from CLI/API?
  67. Why doesn’t ‘wp’ command work in my WP-CLI installation?
  68. A shorter way to automatically update WordPress?
  69. wp-cli for Creating page-template
  70. WP-CLI unable to recongnise PHP server / environment variables on Ubuntu
  71. How to move back a command in WP-CLI from wp shell?
  72. wp_clear_object_cache() is deprecated. What should I use instead?
  73. How best to keep my localhost on Http while my Remote production is on Https
  74. Can’t Connect to MySQL Database using WP CLI and MAMP on a macOS Catalina, using Oh My Zsh
  75. What is the purpose of the “user” global parameter in wp-cli.yml config?
  76. PHPUnit via WP-CLI: Warning: Cannot modify header information … bootstrap.php:68
  77. PHP Parse error on WP-CLI, not on web server
  78. Trying to install/configure wp-cli for WordPress
  79. Using the WP CLI to output the HTML results of calling a post?
  80. Working with CLI and missing my namespace classes inside
  81. Logs for WP CLI
  82. WP-Cli Autoloads Non-existant Framework
  83. Give WP-Cli User Home Directory Privileges
  84. WP CLI: critical error on your website
  85. How to remove all plugins, posts, pages, and inactive themes in one line with wp-cli? WordPress bloatware removal
  86. WP-CLI plugin activate – ‘activate’ is not a registered subcommand of ‘plugin’
  87. Creating a subcommand for custom wp-cli command
  88. Is WP-CLI safe to use in a hosting environment? Why?
  89. How come there is no error if I upgrade WordPress core after locking .htaccess permissions to 644?
  90. WP-CLI – How to install a plugin from a remote server
  91. How to fix “Not enough memory” on Windows 7 and PHP 7.2.0 (cli)
  92. Is it possible to use WP CLI to update a theme that is not in the WordPress Repo?
  93. Can I use WP-CLI from a remote computer?
  94. Why can’t the WP-CLI installer find my php.ini?
  95. wp-cli output ‘column display format’ / wrapping
  96. When might you need to specify the “url” argument/option in WP-CLI?
  97. WP-CLi Uable to Install / Update Plugins
  98. wp-cli incorrectly believes a plugin is currently installed
  99. Using wp-cli on remote with quoted commands
  100. Post Count for Multisite?