wp cli- don’t fear the command line

WP-CLIDon’t Fear The Command Line

Agency and Community Success Manager At Pantheon Since 2014

Some things I enjoy, aside from tech and improv: ● Comic books and webcomics● Improv● Karaoke!!!

Hi, I’m Dwayne

dwayne@pantheon.io

@mcdwayne on Twitter

Slides at: mcdwayne.com

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Poll time

● Do you find yourself doing the same tasks over and over in your WordPress projects?

● Is there a particular way you set up WordPress for each new project?

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Let the robots do the work!

Let the robots do the work!

Let me show you an example● Install WP-CLI● Create wp-config.php● Download WP● Install WP● Make some dummy posts https://c9.io/

Before the GUI

There was (is) the terminal

List of commands = script

WordPress Command Line Interface

Created and maintained by these folks

http://wp-cli.org/

Locally or on server

Things you will need:

Bash UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD or

‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’)

SSH Access

PHP 5.3.29 or later

How you install it from the command line:

Download it: curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-

pages/phar/wp-cli.phar

Set permissions: chmod +x wp-cli.phar

Move it somewhere useful: sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

Did it work? Typing $ wpin the terminalshould produce this

The hard part is over

● Download and Install Core● Create wp-config.php● Search-Replace● Posts● Users● Themes● Plugins● Widgets● Menu

Structure of commands

wp command subcommand --flags

DEMO TIMEhttps://github.com/1dwaynemcdaniel/Public

Docs/blob/master/WP-CLI-script.sh

http://wp-cli.org/docs/tools/http://wp-cli.org/docs/commands-cookbook/

WP-CLI Within other CLIs

QUESTION TIME

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Agency and Community Success Manager At Pantheon Since 2014

Some things I enjoy, aside from tech and improv: ● Comic books and webcomics● Improv● Karaoke!!!

Hi, I’m Dwayne

dwayne@pantheon.io

@mcdwayne on Twitter

Slides at: mcdwayne.com

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