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Where/how are categories stored?
There is extensive documentation on the database structure of WordPress in the Codex.
Its pretty simple but still you probably do not want to mess with the data directly.
As you mentioned CLI I'd ...
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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 ...
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How to disable XML-RPC from Linux command-line in a total way?
On nginx, to block access to the xmlrpc.php file, add this location block to the server block of your configuration file:
location ~ ^/(xmlrpc\.php) {
deny all;
}
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Bulk delete media by year
We tried with couple of plugins , but there isn't any with option to bulk delete images by month or year.
If you have access to wp-cli you can try to delete attachments by year and month with:
wp ...
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How do I set and list page_template with wpcli?
This doesn't have the attribute I am looking for page_template
Try using page_template in fields:
wp post list --post_type=page,post --fields=ID,post_title,post_name,post_type,page_template
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How to change a post attribute to homepage using WP CLI?
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 ...
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wp-cli for Creating page-template
wp-cli is not a development tool, it is a server admin tool, as such all the scaffold stuff there is.... for lack of better word, unneeded bloat. It is unlikely to reflect best practice, especially if ...
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How can I list all installed plugins/themes/versions from CLI/API?
Using WP CLI, you can record Wordpress version using:
wp core version --extra --path="$SITEPATH" > wp-report.txt
and append a list of plugins (with status and version):
wp plugin list --path="$...
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Find Wordpress root directory in bash without WP-CLI
Simple bash script to find your WordPress root
Ever need to run a script outside of WordPress and need to know the WordPress root directory?
while [ ! -e wp-config.php ]; do
if [ $pwd/ = / ]; ...
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wp-env mysqlcheck error:1130
Step 1: Find the name of your wp-env container
First, you need to locate the name of the container created by wp-env. To do this, in the directory of your project containing .wp-env.json, you must run ...
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Carriage Return control character (^M) found in wp-config-sample.php
Unix and Unix-like operating systems (like Linux) use different line endings in their text files.
The format of Windows and Unix text files differs slightly. In Windows, lines end with both the line ...
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Bulk delete media by year
Your images still exist in your Media Library because they are stored in the database, just like posts and pages. You can delete an image directly via FTP, but that doesn't magically delete its ...
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WP Cli will not execute on Windows
Currently i have several process running in my CI/CD with wp-cli and all works fine in windows and unix. In my experience this is your best option in windows:
#1 Add PHP to your Windows Path Variable
#...
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How to retrieve text only from a post using WP CLI?
Changing fonts and stripping tags can be done with a mySQL query. You'll just need to figure out the right regexes to search and replace.
For everything else, it sounds like you would be better off ...
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How can I list all installed plugins/themes/versions from CLI/API?
WP CLI is probably the best for this:
WordPress Version:
wp core version --path="$SITEPATH" > wp-report.txt
List Plugins:
wp plugin list --path="$SITEPATH" >> wp-report.txt
List Themes:
...
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How can I use PurifyCSS to clean WordPress style.css?
Optimizing the CSS for WordPress is a time consuming job. You will have to consider all pages (404, archive, search, etc) as well as every possible element that you can think of, such as images, ...
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Error updating WP-CLI
First of all, locate your installation of WP-CLI.
If you're using Composer you can list all globally installed packages on the command line like this:
composer global show
Then update the WP-CLI ...
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Generate WP-CLI @alias for each site on multisite
LOCAL
For local aliases, it works best to define your path ahead of time in the config.yml. Then keep the variables pretty clean by only specifying the url to target the site. Sorting the output ...
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Database Update Required - Update from command-line
Core updates are supported in the WP-CLI.
wp core update - Update WordPress.
# Update WordPress
$ wp core update
Updating to version 4.5.2 (en_US)...
Downloading update from https://downloads....
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wp-cli displays php notices when display errors off
My solution to disable notices etc is to know if the wp-config.php is call via cli or not. So put this little code in wp-config.php
$sapi_type = php_sapi_name();
if ( $sapi_type == 'cli' ) {
...
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How to use command 'wp post create' in wp-cli properly?
In case you have many post to create, you can create a dedicated folder with all your posts as text documents, using post_title as the txt file titles.
In this very same folder, create a bash file ...
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Get plugin download URL from slug
I think I am late but as per new guidelines I found this is best possible solution
// Set the arguments. For brevity of code, I will set only a few fields.
$args = array(
'slug' => '...
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Determining WordPress' Version from the Host's Command Line?
If you want to use that information for something in a script, you can do this:
VERSION=$(grep "wp_version =" wp-includes/version.php | awk '{print $3}' | sed "s/'//g" | sed "s/;//g")
That would ...
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Determining WordPress' Version from the Host's Command Line?
Please use the below command to check the current wordpress version:
# grep wp_version wp-includes/version.php
Output sample:
root@vps [/home/dedu/public_html]# grep wp_version wp-includes/version....
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