wp-cli & Shell Command Library

The WordPress command line interface makes the work we do easy. This page also contains shell script commands that do not use wp-cli but are run the same way.

Commands

Media Library

Delete Gravity Forms file uploads

Deletes all files uploaded with form submissions. Frees disk space in local copies of sites.

rm -rf wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/*

Multisite

Activate Plugin on Every Site

wp site list --field=url | xargs -n1 -I % wp --url=% plugin activate wp-api-disable-user-list/wp-api-disable-user-list.php

Find Sites Using a Specific Plugin

Reveals which blogs in a network have activated a specific plugin.

sites=$(wp site list --field=url)
for url in $sites; do
    if wp plugin is-active "embed-pdf-gravityforms/embed-pdf-gravityforms.php" --url="${url}" --network; then
        echo "${url}"
    fi
done

Grant Super Admin to User

wp super-admin add [email protected]

Network-wide Search and Replace

Runs the wp search-replace command on every site in a network.

wp site list --field=url | xargs -n1 -I % wp --url=% search-replace '[vehicle_form_field]' '[invp_vehicle vehicle]'

Plugins

Activate Plugins According to the Option

Syncs the plugin directory to the database option. Installs and activates plugins using the list stored in the site.

wp plugin list --status=active --field=file | xargs -n1 -I % wp plugin install % -–activate

Users

Change User Password

wp user update [email protected] --user_pass="h43v#sdsfg)fgh49gh@cY<3Tb4Wfk9ke"