scribu 12:00 am on April 15, 2014  

Version 0.15 released

A new version of WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ is here. The highlights:

Manage more things

There are brand new top-level commands for dealing with more types of objects in a WordPress install:

  • wp super-admin for managing caped admins on multisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network.
  • wp menu for managing navigation menus
  • wp widget and wp sidebar for managing widgets and sidebars
  • wp theme mod for managing theme mods

Exporting only particular database tables

With the new wp db tables subcommand, you can generate a list of database tables, which you can pass to the wp db export command, like so:

wp db export --tables=$(wp db tables --url=sub.example.com | tr 'n' ',')

Composability is beautiful.

Arbitrary command nesting

Up until now, you could only have top-level commands, like wp search-replace and second-level subcommands, like wp core install. Now, you can have commands at any depth, such as wp post meta update.

This capability is especially useful to third-party commands, such as wp-cli-buddypress.

Revamped bash completions

Bash completions are now a bit smarter: besides auto-completing positional parameters like --dbname=, it will also suggest file names, if the subcommand you’re writing out expects a file name.

Note that after updating wp-cli.phar, you will also have to update the wp-completion.bash file.

Other changes

  • added support for WordPress 3.9 and bumped minimum required version to 3.5
  • disable KSES filtering when a user is not explicitly set
  • allow defining skip-plugins and wp core config --extra-php in the wp-cli.yml file
  • added wp role reset subcommand
  • added wp transient delete-all and wp transient delete-expired subcommands
  • wp core config: added --skip-check flag
  • wp core is-installed: added --network flag
  • wp user create: added --send-email flag
  • wp user delete: added --network flag
  • wp option add: added --autoload= parameter
  • wp search-replace: now works with tables that have a composite primary key
  • wp post create: fixed handling of --post_category= parameter
  • wp eval-file: allow passing arbitrary arguments to the file

You can browse the full list of resolved issues on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

Contributors to this release: clemens-tolboom, danielbachhuber, francescolaffi, itsananderson, johnpbloch, mattheu, nyordanov, Rarst, robertboloc, rodrigoprimo, sboisvert, scribu, szepeviktor, trepmal.

Survey

We’d like to know how people are using WP-CLI so we set up a quick survey (just 5 questions). We’d appreciate it if you would fill it out. The results will be posted here, in a separate blog post.