A new release is upon us!
We’re excited to bring you WP-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/ v1.5.1, an intermediary bugfix release with a total of 52 merged pull requests since v1.5.0 in January 2018.
About this release
This is a bugfix release, which means that you shouldn’t expect major feature enhancements. We’re working hard on v2.0.0 which is planned for the summer, and all new features will have to wait for that big one.
Notable features
Yes, I just said not to expect any new features. However, a small number of features managed to sneak into this release nevertheless.
Edit your config files with ease
The config command now has a new config edit function that opens the wp-config.php file in your favorite editor for easy changes. You can configure the editor to be used through the EDITOR environment variable [#48].
Get better insight into your capabilities
Although WordPress is able to have a capability be set to false, to effectively mean an explicit “deny” of that capability, WP-CLI did not yet show that distinction. It only let you know that the capability was defined, but not whether it was negated, giving the false impression of it being “allowed” instead.
This has now changed, and you can get a complete picture of how the capabilities are set by adding the --show-grant to the cap list command [#19].
Breaking change: Note that the default behavior of cap list has slightly changed because of that. Whereas the previous version showed a capability set to false alongside the normal capabilities, a simple cap list without the new --show-grant flag will now hide the capabilities that are set to false, effectively returning only the capabilities that are actually “granted”.
Bugs that were fixed
Framework
- Show help text even when
proc_(open|close) aren’t available [#4758]
- Normalize Mac
tar output [#4674]
- Tests should not depend on external commands [#4673]
- Fix
phpunit extractor, glob, behat tests [#4672]
- Move
phpunit PHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. directive tests to behat [#4675]
- Only run
phpcs against PHP files on pre-commit hook [#4755]
Commands
plugin verify-checksums
- Make soft change detection more flexible [#41]
- Add backslash to the regex for matching Windows paths correctly [#39]
config
package
- Assume default package name if
composer.json file cannot be retrieved [#78]
- Avoid using Composer CA bundle if in phar [#72]
scaffold block
- Fix theme-specific paths in scaffolded blocks [#137]
- Modify
scaffold block to create index.js [#142]
scaffold plugin
- Exclude
tests/test-sample.php via the phpunit.xml.dist file [#134]
scaffold plugin-tests | theme-tests
- Fix WPCS A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016. in theme-tests generation [#121]
- Use correct default
$WP_TESTS_DIR on MacOS [#131]
- Fix
sed -i option on MacOS [#132]
- Switch CircleCI template to CircleCI 2.0 [#115]
- Add PHP 7.2 to CI templates [#135]
search-replace
- Handle incomplete class (un)serialization gracefully [#76]
- Handle PCRE errors gracefully [#75]
- Remove “Site Not Found” message from multisite 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. usage [#69]
Contributors to this release (15 total)
danielbachhuber, emirpprime, ericgopak, felicianotech, gitlost, johnbillion, kshaner, lalaithan, pdaalder, ptrkcsk, salcode, schlessera, stevegrunwell, thrijith, torounit
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