The name comes from ‘WordPress Command Line Interface’ – WP-CLI. You can use WP-CLI to manage WordPress and:<\/p>\n
This article lists several useful commands for you, but the list is non-exhaustive. Click on the link to explore more WP-CLI commands<\/a>.<\/p>\n WP-CLI is installed on all Webhosting packages in Easyhost. All you have to do is connect to the account via SSH. For Windows you can use a free SSH client such as Putty. For Linux and Mac, simply use your terminal.<\/p>\n All of the following WP-CLI commands have to be executed from the directory where your WordPress website is installed. To change the current directory, simply use the cd command, for example:<\/p>\n Create user<\/strong><\/p>\n This command will create a new user with username “username” with the specified permissions, e-mail address and password.<\/p>\n Delete user<\/strong><\/p>\n This command will delete the user with the specified username – in this case “username”.<\/p>\n List all users<\/strong><\/p>\n The following command will show you all users in your CMS with their ID, display name, e-mail address and permissions\/role.<\/p>\n Edit password for a user<\/strong><\/p>\n Use the numeric ID from the output of the previous command to edit the password for a user of your choice<\/p>\n WordPress core<\/strong><\/p>\n Check the current WordPress core version:<\/p>\n Update the WordPress core to the latest available version<\/p>\n If you need to update to a particular version, for example if a plugin you use is incompatible with the latest WordPress available, you can force WordPress to update to a version of your choice. The example below would update your CMS to WordPress v4.5<\/p>\n Themes<\/strong><\/p>\n Check the current status and update availability of all themes<\/p>\n OR<\/p>\n where you see the name, the version and a letter indicator – I = Inactive, A = Active, U = Update Available<\/p>\n Check for outdated themes only:<\/p>\n Update all themes:<\/p>\n Plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n Check the current status and update availability of all plugins<\/p>\n OR<\/p>\n where you see the name, the version and a letter indicator – I = Inactive, A = Active, U = Update Available<\/p>\n Check for outdated plugins only:<\/p>\n Update all plugins:<\/p>\n Update one plugin only:<\/p>\n Deactivate all plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n Activate all plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n (De)activate particular plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n OR<\/p>\n The name comes from ‘WordPress Command Line Interface’ – WP-CLI. You can use WP-CLI to manage WordPress and: Detect errors and issues and fix them Bypass using the interface when the backend is unavailable Do regular maintenance and updates This article lists several useful commands for you, but the list…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[33,32],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/323\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}IN THIS ARTICLE:<\/h4>\n
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How do I use WP-CLI<\/h2>\n
cd www\/ \n<\/code><\/pre>\nUser management commands in WP-CLI<\/h2>\n
wp user create username-here your-email@address.com --role=administrator --user_pass=password-here\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp user delete username\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp user list\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp user update 1 --user_pass=new-password-here\n<\/code><\/pre>\nWordPress updates via WP-CLI<\/h2>\n
wp core version\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp core update\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp core update --version=4.5 --force\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp theme list\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp theme status\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp theme list | grep \"available\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp theme update --all\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin list\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin status\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin list | grep \"available\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin update --all\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin update name-of-plugin\n<\/code><\/pre>\nPlugin management<\/h2>\n
wp plugin deactivate --all\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin activate --all\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin deactivate name-of-plugin\n<\/code><\/pre>\nwp plugin activate name-of-plugin\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"