WP-CLI not setting page template with page_template="template-name.php"

Question

I'm having trouble setting the page template with wp-cli. According to this post, How do I set and list page_template with wpcli, it looks like:

wp post create --post_type=page --page_template='template-name.php'

should work, but it only returns "Error: The page template is invalid." Any thoughts? I've tried creating the page first and then updating using wp post update 14 --page_template='template-name.php' and that says "Success: Updated post 14." but nothing is changed when I look at the page in the Wordpress admin.

Thanks for help on this. Today is my first day working with wp-cli and it is incredible. I wish I would have come across this a long time ago.

Answer 1

I wrote this as a comment, but should have put it here.

The problem was that my templates were in a folder in my theme called "templates"

I found this out by doing:

wp post meta list post_name="post-name" 

and is showed that it is in the folder templates. Then I changed the above code to

wp post create --post_type=page --page_template='template/template-name.php' 

This worked fine