I’m running into an issue I haven’t encountered before where WP-CLI is not recognizing plugin updates for commercial plugins. The plugin updates appear in my WordPress dashboard, but running ../wp-cli.phar plugin update –all doesn’t update them. If I run ../wp-cli.phar plugin list it doesn’t show them as having updates. I’ve run updates through WP-CLI for … Read more
I’d like to automate the task of importing a remote database using the WP-CLI. The current process is to ssh to the server, and run an export to file using WP-CLI, copy the file to a local directory via scp or rsync, and then import the file through the WP-CLI. I would like to utilize … Read more
I currently use this code in the main plugins file itself. But that plugin is not my own so I would prefer to be able to upgrade it normally without every time adding this code. if ( defined( ‘WP_CLI’ ) && WP_CLI ) { exit; } I need to do this because this plugin produces … Read more
I want to automate updating plugin options. There are some things that I repeat a lot. With wp-cli I know I can update simple options like this: php wp-cli.phar option update blog_public 1 However, some plugin options save their options in a serialized string. Example of serialized option_value in wp_options: a:9:{s:4:”from”;s:21:”[email protected]”;s:8:”fromname”;s:51:”xxx”;s:4:”host”;s:13:”smtp.xx.com”;s:10:”smtpsecure”;s:3:”ssl”;s:4:”port”;s:3:”465″;s:8:”smtpauth”;s:3:”yes”;s:8:”username”;s:21:”[email protected]”;s:8:”password”;s:13:”xxx”;s:10:”deactivate”;s:0:””;} How to update those … Read more
I get this error when I try to create something with WP CLI: Error establishing a database connection. This either means that the username and password information in your `wp-config.php` file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at `localhost`. This could mean your host’s database server is down. But I can open … Read more
I have WordPress Multisite with several sites. I set up DISABLE_WP_CRON to true in my wp-config.php. If we set up cron task with wget or curl we have 30 sec rule to execute PHP script. It’s so small to send tons of email notifications and do other stuff (maybe remote SMTP server connection is slow, … Read more
I use the wonderful WP-CLI tool. Due to dependence on Apache environment variables for a specific use case, I need to enable a bit of code to run only when running under WP-CLI. How can I detect if WP is running under WP-CLI? In this specific case I could check for the presence of the … Read more
wp-cli is great. But it’s not clear how I can quickly change a user password with it. How to change a user’s password programatically can probably help to figure this out. Although wp user update username –field=password is not gonna cut it, apparently md5 is deprecated so it should go through wp_set_password. 4 This does … Read more
