There is only one function in wp-cli which will return this error and it is wp_not_installed wp_not_installed definition. as you see function is checking if your site is installed by calling function from WordPress core is_blog_installed. is_blog_installed definition. It is hard to tell what is happening exactly with your site but I would try to … Read more
According to the WP-CLI docs for the wp search-replace command (and wp db search, for that matter), you have to pass your search string without delimiters and pass any flags separately. Instead of: wp search-replace ‘/<img[^>]+\>/i’ ” wp_posts –regex –allow-root You would use something more like this: wp search-replace ‘<img[^>]+\>’ ” wp_posts –regex –allow-root –regex-flags=”i” … Read more
I’ve had great luck with scripting WP-CLI to install, setup and configure WordPress development, staging, and production sites. With it, you can automate nearly the entire process including the installation of specific plugins, the creation of menus, categories, and just about any WordPress configuration item. Obviously, this approach would require shell access and the installation … Read more
It is not possible to install WordPress without creating a user. However, you could immediately remove that user with a second wp-cli command like yes | wp user delete 1 Note: this will also delete any posts and pages associated with that user. You can normally re-assign them to a different user but in this … Read more
You just need to change the syntax of xargs to run multiple commands using the same placeholder: wp post generate –format=ids –count=10 | sed -e “s/ /\n/g” | xargs -n1 -I % sh -c ‘echo “Adding fields for %”; wp post meta add % foo bar; wp post meta add % key_2 value_2’; Update: The … Read more
WP-CLI is a command line interface to WP. So, it is used in a Unix shell environment. Plugins and themes are written in PHP (which itself also runs in a shell, usually Unix). So, to execute a WP-CLI command in a plugin you would have to pass it from PHP to the Unix shell. That … Read more
There’s a difference between doing things to a user, and doing things as a user. E.g. when you are logged in you are the current user, but by default in WP CLI there is no “current user”. You can specify this via a parameter but adding a user via wp-cli.yml saves time. You may even … Read more
Rebuild thumbnails via WP Cli – how?
This is probably because of your database collation. There are numerous questions on StackOverflow about this sort of thing. Your question may get closed or migrated as it’s not on-topic for wordpress.stackexchange.com; Take a look at this question, or perhaps ask there instead. Also, why are you not using the WordPress WP_Query class to return … Read more
This is what ended up working for me: meta1='{“Length”:’ meta2=’,”Height”:”‘ meta3='”}’ while IFS=$’\t’, read -r col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 || [ -n “$col1” ] do \ meta=$meta1 meta+=$col4 meta+=$meta2 meta+=$col5; meta+=$meta3 And for meta_input line –meta_input=$meta \