Since WP-CLI 0.24.0 you can now use aliases which enable you to import a remote database quite easily. By using aliases, you can run WP-CLI commands against another WP-CLI install. That install could be a remote machine. With this in mind I’ve hacked together a bash alias that chains together several WP-CLI commands to pull … Read more
One of the first things WordPress does to load plugins is get the active plugins as saved in the database: $active_plugins = (array) get_option( ‘active_plugins’, array() ); Since it uses get_option() we can use the option_active_plugins filter to modify the list of active plugins on the fly. function wpse_301282_disable_plugin( $active_plugins ) { if ( defined( … Read more
WP-CLI is definitely the answer to this after the update to 1.4.0 which introduced the pluck and patch commands for accessing serialized data in WordPress. The pluck command takes this format for grabbing serialized values wp option pluck <key> <key-name> For example in the active_plugins option you can grab first item wp option pluck active_plugins … Read more
Go into your wp-config.php and change your DB_HOST to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. Credit goes to Craig Wayne above in the comments.
I think the best way is to use WP-CLI but you’d need to write a bash script to do this. Here is one that should do it for you: WP_PATH=”/path/to/wp” for SITE_URL in = $(wp site list –fields=domain,path,archived,deleted –format=csv –path=”$WP_PATH” | grep “,0,0$” | awk -F ‘,’ ‘{print $1 $2}’) do for EVENT_HOOK in $(wp … Read more
Within the php/wp-cli.php we find these lines: // Can be used by plugins/themes to check if WP-CLI is running or not define( ‘WP_CLI’, true ); define( ‘WP_CLI_VERSION’, trim( file_get_contents( WP_CLI_ROOT . ‘/VERSION’ ) ) ); define( ‘WP_CLI_START_MICROTIME’, microtime( true ) ); so you could check if WP_CLI or WP_CLI_VERSION are defined.
This does the trick: wp user update USERNAME –user_pass=”PASSWORD” (Found it here.)