Actually, I figured out how to do this, and it’s actually really easy to do! Which is awesome because I think it’s a great simple way to work! First up, you don’t want to change the PATH for PHP in bash. So you’ll want to remove that. Instead, what you are doing is using bash … Read more
(I’ll post here @photocurio’s answer, as it’s hidden in the comments) wp post list –post_type=page # will show only post-type=page wp post list # will show only post-type=post It’s counter-intuitive command is also mis-documented, (which I hope to change), because: pages are posts. There’s no “wp page list” command. The docs don’t mention that the … Read more
To set the site’s static home page with WP-CLI, you should be able to do something like this: wp option update show_on_front “page” wp option update page_on_front {$page_id} … where {$page_id} is the ID of the page you want to be the front page. (Your question was originally tagged multisite—if you’re running a Multisite installation, … Read more
wp core version displays your current WordPress version. $ wp core version 5.2.4 Adding –extra shows extended version information. $ wp core version –extra WordPress version: 5.2.4 Database revision: 44719 TinyMCE version: 4.940 (4940-20190515) Package language: en_US wp core check-update lists the most recent versions when there are updates available, or success message when up … Read more
A quick manual solution is to direct all error output to a log file somewhere or even to /dev/null. With your command this would look like this: wp plugin list –fields=name,status,update,version,update_version,title –format=json 2> ./cli-command.err.log If you totally don’t care about the errors, warnings and notices, you could send it to /dev/null like this: wp plugin … Read more
Funny how you find the answer just after posting a question. Posting here, in case someone comes looking for it. As per @Kero’s comment above, that’s correct. The command-line option will only recognise strings. There is however an eval-file command that can be used to achieve this (and now that I have discovered it, a … Read more
You can use the WP-CLI command wp db export <filename> Run the command from within the home directory for the install. Now, you have a database included in your files. Zip up the directory and move it aside. Now you can perform the upgrade, and if something breaks, replace with the old site and import … Read more
Setting Up PHPUnit tests for WP development on Windows
As I mentioned on the Github issue, your request isn’t currently possible with WP-CLI but would be a nice future enhancement.
I finally figured this out. It ended up being something really stupid. I have short tags enabled on my server so I can use <? instead of <?php in theme files. I was also using a short tag to open my functions.php file. Apparently, when PHP scripts run from the command line, they require the … Read more