WP-CLI v2.12.0 Release Notes

A new release 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/WP-CLI v2.12.0, is now available. For this release, we had 68 contributors collaborate to get 382 pull requests merged. 

As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible.

This release includes numerous bug fixes and compatibility improvements, but we still could teach WP-CLI a few new tricks which I’ll highlight below. As always, you can also skip directly to the detailed changelog if you prefer.

If you already use WP-CLI, updating is as simple as wp cli update. Else, check out our website for recommended installation methods.

Pluck & patch commands for caches and transients

The cache and transient commands have now also learned the subtle art of plucking and patching. This means that you can directly manipulate individual entries in an array of values that these commands let you manage.

Here’s an example of how such an operation can look and how it compare to the regular cache/transient operations:

# Transient structure
# 'some_key' => ['foo' => ['bar' => 'baz']]

# Retrieve the transient value
$ wp transient get some_key --format=json
{'foo':{'bar':'baz'}}

# Retrieve the value of the foo => bar subkey
$ wp transient pluck some_key foo bar
baz

# Replace baz with bazzer
$ wp transient patch update some_key foo bar bazzer
Success: Updated transient 'some_key'.

Post lists can now handle complex query flags

When using post list, you can now use JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. notation to provide complex query arguments to the --tax_query, --meta_query and --post_date fields.

$ wp post list --field=post_title --date_query='{"before":{"year":"2024"}}
+--------------------------+
| post_title               |
+--------------------------+
| My year in review - 2021 |
| My year in review - 2022 |
| My year in review - 2023 |
+--------------------------+

$ wp post list --field=post_title --tax_query='[{"taxonomy":"category","field":"slug","terms":"first-category"}]'
...

$ wp post list --field=post_title --meta_query='[{"key":"key2","value":"value2b"}]'
...

Post metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. can be forced to only return a single value

The post meta get command now has a --single flag defaulting to true which can be negated with --no-single. This flag tells WordPress whether to only return a single value or all existing values for a given key.

# Create a post meta key for post with ID 123 that has multiple values
$ wp post meta add 123 my_meta_key value_1
$ wp post meta add 123 my_meta_key value_2
$ wp post meta add 123 my_meta_key value_4

# Retrieve a single value
$ wp post meta get 123 my_meta_key --single
value_1

# Retrieve all values
$ wp post meta get 123 my_meta_key --no-single --format=json
["value_1","value_2","value_3"]

Exclude files on core checksum verification

When running a core checksum verification, you can exclude one or more files from the checksum verification with the new --exclude=<files> flag, which takes a comma-separated list of filepaths relative to the current root.

# Make a change to the README file in the WordPress core root folder
$ echo "nonsense" > readme.html

# Run the core checksum verification
$ wp core verify-checksums --exclude='readme.html'
Success: WordPress installation verifies against checksums.

Respect requires and requires_php tags for plugins and themes

The pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and theme commands now understand and respect the requires and requires_php headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. tags when trying ot install or update extensions. A new state unavailable has been introduced to denote the updates that are newer that your current installation but for which your site does not fulfill the requirements.

This also adds new fields requires and requires_php which are displayed if they contain relevant information and otherwise hidden by default.

$ wp plugin list
+----------------+----------+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+----------+--------------+
| name           | status   | update      | version | update_version | auto_update | requires | requires_php |
+----------------+----------+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+----------+--------------+
| akismet        | inactive | available   | 5.1     | 5.3.5          | off         | 5.8      | 5.6.20       |
| edit-flow      | inactive | none        | 0.9.9   |                | off         | 6.0      | 8.0          |
| wp-super-cache | inactive | unavailable | 1.9.4   | 1.12.4         | off         | 6.5      | 7.0          |
+----------------+----------+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+----------+--------------+

$ wp plugin update wp-super-cache
Warning: wp-super-cache: This update requires WordPress version 6.5, but the version installed is 6.2.
Error: No plugins updated.

More control over make-json generation

The make-json command was made more powerful again. You can not only set a custom text domain to be used, you can also define the file extension to parse.

# Use a custom text domain
$ wp i18n make-json foo-theme --domain=my-custom-domain
Success: Created 1 file.

# Include typescript files
$ wp i18n make-json foo-theme --extensions=".ts, .tsx"
Success: Created 2 files.

Force update checks on plugin|theme list

When displaying the list of plugins or themes, WP-CLI now always ensures you get fresh data. No need to manually clear transients anymore! The existing --skip-update-check flag can be used to prevent this behavior.

# Clears any update transients to trigger an update check and display results
$ wp plugin list --fields=name,status,update --force-check
+-------------+----------+--------+
| name        | status   | update |
+-------------+----------+--------+
| hello-dolly | inactive | none   |
+-------------+----------+--------+

PHPPHP 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. 8.4 Compatiblity

WP-CLI is now fully compatible with PHP 8.4. This has required quite a bit of trickery and hacks to maintain compatibility with our current minimum of PHP 5.6+ at the same time. With the next release, we’ll bump the minimum PHP version to 7.2.24+, which will allow us to get rid of all these workarounds again.

Detailed Change Log

wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle

  • Fix Phar path resolution with renamed binaries [#752]
  • Deployment: Fix FILENAME env var [#696]
  • Address deprecation warnings in Behat tests [#663]

wp-cli/wp-cli

  • Replace duplicate-post plugin with debug-bar in feature tests [#6091]
  • Use forked mustache library [#6090]
  • Escape CSV output [#6089]
  • Make sure existing esc_like() takes precedence [#6088]
  • Set display_errors to stderr (lowercase) instead of STDERR [#6084]
  • Fix update step for nightlies [#6075]
  • Detect MariaDB vs MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. [#6072]
  • Update WP-CLI update message [#6071]
  • Add WP_CLI_REQUIRE environment variable for including extra PHP files [#6070]
  • Remove array_column() compatibility function [#6068]
  • Support multiple files in WP_CLI_EARLY_REQUIRE [#6065]
  • Properly create missing WP-CLI configuration file when needed [#6062]
  • Improve command suggestions for taxonomies and post types [#6059]
  • Fix undefined variable issue [#6058]
  • Pass working-directory and stdin to docker scheme [#5974] & [#6057]
  • Add test for line breaks in table view [#6055]
  • Ensure code after wp-settings.php call is loaded [#6042]
  • Allow collecting PHPUnit coverage [#6041]
  • don’t forcefully exec() docker version [#6040]
  • Improve regular expression for detecting wp-settings.php [#6039]
  • Check PHP version requirement in update check [#6037]
  • Add hook to http_request() utility function [#6036]
  • Add PHPDoc for cmd_starts_with() method [#6034]
  • Update expected error message in unit tests [#6032]
  • Update outdated AJAX documentation link [#6031]
  • Add global documentation [#6017]
  • Allow remote binary customization [#6013]
  • Add configurable user agent to WP-CLI to detect in firewall logs [#5998]
  • Convert PHPUnit deprecations into exceptions [#5994]
  • Remove unused automerge workflow [#5992]
  • Fix CSV escaping deprecation notices [#5991]
  • Check for root earlier [#5987]
  • Remove use of E_STRICT for wp_debug_mode() [#5986]
  • Fix deprecation notices for ReflectionProperty::setValue() [#5984]
  • Fix “missing return type” deprecation warnings in WP_CLI\Iterators\CSV [#5983]
  • Fix implicitly nullable parameters [#5982]
  • Update Requests to v2.0.12 [#5981]
  • Update log and warning logger functions comment according to the actual functionality [#5979]
  • Add defaults and accepted values for runcommand() options in documentation [#5953]

wp-cli/handbook

  • Update documentation to include new WP_CLI_SSH_BINARY value [#559]
  • Add documentation for newly supported ENV vars [#556]
  • Update URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org for True-False Hosting [#553]

wp-cli/cache-command

  • Fix expired transients tests [#104]
  • Allow manually dispatching tests workflow [#99]
  • Make transient test more robust against added transients by coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. [#98]
  • Add pluck & patch commands for caches and transients [#89]

wp-cli/checksum-command

  • Add blank space when trimming the version [#130]
  • Add --exclude argument for verifying checksums [#123]
  • Remove unused variable [#134]
  • Don’t check missing files [#131]

wp-cli/config-command

  • Don’t require file to be writable for config has [#187]
  • Suppress output of eval(get_wp_config_code) preventing errors printing twice [#188]

wp-cli/core-command

  • Fix flaky tests due to changing download URL [#277]
  • Allow installing major version with trailing zero [#276]
  • Use existing WpOrgApi helper class [#283]
  • Add doc comment for $insecure [#281]
  • Host shouldn’t include http:// [#279]

wp-cli/cron-command

  • Harden test checking for log file [#111]

wp-cli/db-command

  • Correct error message in db search for --format=count [#267]
  • Update db search documentation [#265]
  • Add --add-drop-table to export command options [#263]
  • Improve MariaDB detection/compatibility [#280]
  • Add affected rows count for queries that can modify data in db query [#277]
  • Don’t hardcode MySQL command names [#275]

wp-cli/entity-command

  • Add missing options header in signup list command [#508]
  • Ensure user update returns non-zero exit code for invalid users [#527]
  • Make term-migrate test more robust [#524]
  • Add a flag for getting post meta as a single value or not [#523]
  • Add JSON input support for tax_query and meta_query [#522]
  • Add JSON input support for date_query argument [#520]
  • wp option – new autoload values in autoload filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. [#515]
  • Return a proper WP_Error object when failing to update a comment [#514]
  • Add test cases asserting post/term update error exit codes [#513]
  • Safeguard remove cap from collisions with roles [#530]

wp-cli/export-command

  • Use get_post_stati() instead of get_post_statuses() to support all registered post statuses in export [#121]

wp-cli/extension-command

  • Use strpos() instead of str_contains() in get_wporg_data() function [#432]
  • Don’t use transient values when doing plugin|theme list [#446]
  • Fix fatal error issue in in_array() function [#445]
  • Support requires and requires_php in plugin|theme list and plugin|theme update commands [#440]
  • Update logic when deleting and uninstalling plugins [#438]
  • Check WordPress and PHP requirements before installing a theme or plugin [#436]
  • Add --force-check flag to wp plugin list and wp theme list. [#426]
  • Cache certain 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/ URLs [#385]

wp-cli/i18n-command

  • Convert PHPUnit deprecations to exceptions [#413]
  • make-pot: scan any theme.json file in any level [#424]
  • Add ability to pass extensions to make-json command [#439]
  • Update schema fallback files [#431]
  • make-json: Add new --domain argument [#430]
  • update-po: merge X-Domain header [#429]
  • Add php-format and js-format flags [#428]

wp-cli/language-command

  • Mention site switch-language in readme [#159]
  • Allow filtering languages by multiple statuses [#162]

wp-cli/php-cli-tools

  • Example code: remove use of E_STRICT [#175]
  • Fix implicitly nullable parameters [#173]
  • Replace tabs in tables with 4 spaces [#181]
  • Properly handle line breaks in column value [#179]
  • Support line breaks and tab replacement in tabular table values [#182]
  • Fix removal of trailing tab / whitespace in tabular table [#184]
  • Avoid deprecation warnings in newer PHP [#185]

wp-cli/rewrite-command

  • Improve warning message in rewrite flush [#69]

wp-cli/scaffold-command

  • Convert PHPUnit deprecations to exceptions [#348]
  • Add dependency checks and error handling for svn and download tools [#345]
  • Accept Bitbucket as valid CI in scaffold plugin [#340]
  • Update Bitbucket CI [#339]
  • Update templates for child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. scaffolding [#342]
  • Update custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept. and taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. scaffolding [#341]
  • Update GitLab CI configuration file [#338]
  • Remove grunt from plugin scaffolding [#337]

wp-cli/shell-command

  • Add missing do construct [#68]

wp-cli/wp-config-transformer

  • Add read-only option for WPConfigTransformer [#54]
  • Add a branch-alias for dev-main [#55]
  • Deletion of constants deletes more lines than expected [#53]

Contributors

@9ete, @amirhmoradi, @baizmandesign, @benjaminprojas, @BhargavBhandari90, @cliffordp, @daalderp, @dac514, @danielbachhuber, @dd32, @dkoston, @dlind1, @drzraf, @elenachavdarova, @ernilambar, @gedex, @gitlost, @greatislander, @herregroen, @i-am-chitti, @iDschepe, @imrraaj, @itsmekopila, @janw-me, @jenkoian, @jkrrv, @jrfnl, @karthick-murugan, @l3ku, @localheinz, @marksabbath, @matiasbenedetto, @matzeeable, @meszarosrob, @michaelw85, @michaelzangl, @mostafasoufi, @mrsdizzie, @oandregal, @ocean90, @ouikhuan, @PARTHVATALIYA, @pbiron, @peterwilsoncc, @petitphp, @pfefferle, @pmbaldha, @ponsfrilus, @pwtyler, @ramonjd, @rodrigoprimo, @Roy-Orbison, @saas786, @sabithahmd, @sdnunca, @shendy-a8c, @shreya0204, @siliconforks, @strarsis, @swissspidy, @todeveni, @Tug, @tyrann0us, @wojsmol, @wpeople-dev, @WPprodigy, @yousan

#release, #v2-12-0

WP-CLI v2.11.0 Release Notes

A new release 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/WP-CLI v2.11.0, is now available. For this release, we had 61 contributors collaborate to get 274 pull requests merged. 

As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible.

This is a small release that fixes a lot of small and not so small bugs, but we also have a couple of new features that I’ll want to highlight. As always, you can also skip directly to the detailed changelog if you prefer.

If you already use WP-CLI, updating is as simple as wp cli update. Else, check out our website for recommended installation methods.

Thank you for providing the additional details on the pull requests. I’ll go through each one and provide improved highlights with examples and usage details:

Improved CSV Handling

The CSV reading functionality has been enhanced to properly handle multi-line values. This fix ensures that complex CSV data can be processed correctly, improving the reliability of commands that work with CSV input.

Example of a CSV file that can now be correctly processed:

id,name,description
1,"Product A","This is a
multi-line
description"
2,"Product B","Another description"

New Signup Management Commands

New commands have been added for managing signups 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. installations:

  • wp user signup list: List signups
  • wp user signup get: Get details about a signup
  • wp user signup activate: Activate one or more signups
  • wp user signup delete: Delete one or more signups

Example usage:

# List all signups
$ wp user signup list

# Activate a signup
$ wp user signup activate johndoe@example.com

# Delete a signup
$ wp user signup delete 123

New Site Generator Command

A new wp site generate command has been added to create multiple sites programmatically in a multisite installation. This is useful for testing or development purposes.

Example usage:

# Generate 10 new sites
$ wp site generate --count=10

# Generate sites with a specific slug
$ wp site generate --count=2 --slug=testsite

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/ Release Installation Support

The extension command now supports installing plugins and themes directly from GitHub releases. This feature allows users to easily install and manage extensions hosted on GitHub without manual downloads.

Example usage:

# Install a plugin from its latest GitHub release
$ wp plugin install https://github.com/username/plugin-name/releases/latest

# Install a specific version of a theme from GitHub
$ wp theme install https://github.com/username/theme-name/releases/tag/v1.2.3

Improved PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Management

A new --recently-active option has been added to the plugin list command, allowing users to quickly identify and manage plugins that have been recently active on their site.

Example usage:

# List recently active plugins
$ wp plugin list --recently-active

# Activate all recently active plugins
$ wp plugin activate $(wp plugin list --recently-active --field=name)

Option to Delete Unknown Image Sizes

A new --delete-unknown flag has been added to the wp media regenerate command. This allows users to remove files and image metadata for image sizes that no longer exist in the site’s configuration, without regenerating other thumbnails.

Example usage:

# Remove unknown image sizes for all images
$ wp media regenerate --delete-unknown

# Remove unknown image sizes for a specific image
$ wp media regenerate 123 --delete-unknown

This feature is particularly useful for cleaning up after changing image size configurations or removing plugins that added custom image sizes.

User Existence Check Command

A new wp user exists command has been added, similar to the existing wp post exists command. This allows for quick checks on whether a user exists in the WordPress database.

Example usage:

# The user exists.
$ wp user exists 1337
Success: User with ID 1337 exists.
$ echo $?
0

# The user does not exist.
$ wp user exists 10000
$ echo $?
1

Fish Shell Completion Support

WP-CLI now supports command completion for the Fish shell, expanding its compatibility beyond Bash and Zsh. This addition makes it easier for Fish shell users to work with WP-CLI commands.

Detailed change log

To avoid too much noise in the list above, the following types of pull requests have been omitted:

  • PRs that only bumped dependencies to their latest version.
  • PRs that only fixed a typo in the documentation.
  • PRs that add a Composer script.

wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle

  • Update versions of WP-CLI used in tests [#658]
  • Stop testing WordPress latest version on PHPPHP 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. < 7.2 [#651]

wp-cli/wp-cli

  • Add fish shell completion [#5954]
  • Add defaults and accepted values for runcommand() options in documentation [#5953]
  • Address warnings with filenames ending in full stop on Windows [#5951]
  • Fix unit tests [#5950]
  • Update copyright year in license [#5942]
  • Fix breaking multi-line CSV values on reading [#5939]
  • Fix broken GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ test [#5938]
  • Update docker runner to resolve docker path using /usr/bin/env [#5936]
  • Fix inherit path in nested directory [#5930]
  • Minor docblock improvements [#5929]
  • Add Signup fetcher [#5926]
  • Ensure the alias has the leading @ symbol when added [#5924]
  • Include any non-default hook information in CompositeCommand [#5921]
  • Correct completion case when it ends in = [#5913]
  • Fix inline comments [#5912]
  • Update inline comments [#5910]
  • Add a real-world example for cli has-command [#5908]
  • Fix typos [#5901]
  • Avoid PHP deprecation notices in PHP 8.1.x [#5899]

wp-cli/handbook

  • Update handbook for v2.11.0 release [#531]
  • Add missing scaffold package markdown files [#529]
  • Fix Undefined array key warning [#525]
  • Add files autoloader for bin/command.php [#524]
  • Small typo correction [#523]
  • Fix documentation generation error [#520]
  • Add Yoast WP-CLI command to tools.md [#517]
  • Add search and replace quick start & adding new command [#515]
  • Add Composer package name [#514]
  • Clean up hosting links [#513]
  • Add to hosting-companies.md [#512]
  • Remove invalid link from handbook [#511]
  • Update contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. page for WCEU 2024 [#510]
  • Add documentation on Fish completions [#508]
  • Add code quality setup [#506]
  • Fix global parameters 404 link [#504]
  • Fix release checklist hyperlink [#503]
  • Fix broken link for the global parameters hyperlink [#502]
  • Include hook details in documentation [#501]
  • Add link to contribution tutorial videos [#500]
  • Update hosting-companies.md [#499]
  • Refresh the Hack Day page for April 2024 [#498]
  • Fix branch name in common issues handbook page [#497]
  • Fix common issues title [#496]
  • Fix broken link [#494]
  • Add Hack Day page to manifest [#492]
  • Separate out the WP-CLI Hack Day and WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Contributor Day docs [#490]
  • Update running-commands-remotely.md [#489]
  • Update brew formula link [#487]
  • Update installing.md [#481]

wp-cli/cache-command

  • Update failing tests after new transient in WP coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. [#97]

wp-cli/config-command

  • Improve messaging when shuffling salts [#177]
  • Fix incorrect message shuffling salt in PHP 5.6 [#176]
  • Update config commands examples [#174]
  • Refactor config create command [#181]

wp-cli/core-command

  • Remove extraneous argument in core update example [#255]
  • Fix --format in core check-update command [#253]
  • Update core commands docs [#251]

wp-cli/cron-command

  • Fix cron commands examples [#102]
  • Add --all flag to cron event delete [#98]

wp-cli/db-command

  • Add note about multisite usage in db query docs [#251]
  • Enable --format=<format> for db search [#247]
  • Update tests after change in WP trunk version [#257]

wp-cli/embed-command

  • Update examples for embed commands [#75]

wp-cli/entity-command

  • Avoid time dependent test in user application-password [#499]
  • Support new upstream autoload options [#496]
  • Support nickname when creating user [#495]
  • Use twentytwelve theme in menu location test [#494]
  • Add examples for option set-autoload and option get-autoload commands [#492]
  • Add missing ## OPTIONS in CommandWithTerms class [#487]
  • Add user exists command [#486]
  • Accept user login and email in user spam and user unspam commands [#485]
  • Update doc for user spam and user unspam command [#483]
  • Validate reassigning user in user delete command [#482]
  • Fix warning message in user spam command [#481]
  • Add missing application-password and site meta subcommands to readme [#478]
  • Introduce --format=ids in user application-password list [#475]
  • Fix dynamic property issue in user session class [#470]
  • Fix PHP notice in comment recount with invalid ID [#469]
  • Fix example for site deactivate command [#468]
  • Update examples in user commands [#467]
  • Update term commands examples [#466]
  • Update example output for comment delete command [#465]
  • Fix menu command output examples [#462]
  • Add site generate command [#498]
  • Add commands for managing signups on multisite [#489]

wp-cli/extension-command

  • Improve warning message for installing and activating multiple themes [#419]
  • Replace user-switching plugin from feature tests [#418]
  • Update the theme in feature tests [#417]
  • Show additional plugin headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. values in plugin get <plugin> output [#414]
  • Add tested_up_to field [#413]
  • Warn when supplying multiple themes with theme install --activate [#408]
  • Fix plugin commands examples [#403]
  • Update theme commands examples [#401]
  • Correct parameter type in ParseThemeNameInput trait [#400]
  • Add --recently-active option in plugin list command [#424]
  • Fix visibility in command class methods [#423]
  • Add support for GitHub release installation [#421]
  • Replace edit-flow plugin by debug-bar in feature tests [#427]

wp-cli/i18n-command

  • Skip strings without translation in make-php [#389]
  • Add more headers to PHP translation files [#388]
  • Use relative paths for file header references [#384]
  • Translate “description” field from theme.json [#408]
  • Revert changes to extract title from styles.blocks.variations [#407]
  • find title string within styles.blocks.variations in theme.json [#405]
  • Add tests for rspack and esbuild bundle output [#404]
  • Fix deprecation warnings in unit tests [#402]
  • Use relative paths for file header references (Windows fix) [#400]
  • Ensure that the POT file uses the same license as the theme [#399]
  • Add examples for i18n update-po command [#392]
  • Add examples for i18 make-pot [#390]

wp-cli/language-command

  • Update examples for language command [#145]
  • Update examples for language core command [#142]
  • Update examples for language theme command [#141]
  • Update examples for language plugin command [#140]
  • Improve warning message for unavailable language pack [#139]
  • Update doc for language core install command [#153]
  • Add --format=count in language list commands [#151]
  • Update feature tests for language core update [#149]

wp-cli/maintenance-mode-command

  • Add missing OPTIONS heading in maintenance-mode activate command [#28]

wp-cli/media-command

  • Fix incorrect image sizes in media image-size command [#192]
  • Remove extraneous error check [#191]
  • Update media commands examples [#189]
  • Optimize memory consumption when querying attachments [#188]
  • Add option to delete unknown image sizes [#199]

wp-cli/package-command

  • Update docs and examples for package commands [#186]
  • Fix failing test [#185]
  • Fix failing PHPUnit tests [#188]

wp-cli/php-cli-tools

  • Fix unit tests [#172]

wp-cli/scaffold-command

  • Update theme tests to remove p2 and use twentytwelve [#336]
  • Correct plugin main file in bootstrap in scaffolded test [#335]
  • Scaffold theme test should work in PHP greater than 8.0 [#334]
  • Add GitHub as valid CI for plugin scaffold and theme scaffold [#331]
  • Update scaffold command examples [#329]

wp-cli/search-replace-command

  • Fix tests after change in WordPress trunk [#195]
  • Fix test for WordPress trunk [#197]

wp-cli/super-admin-command

  • Add IDs as format for super admin list [#60]
  • Correct super-admin commands examples [#57]

wp-cli/widget-command

  • Replace p2 theme with twentytwelve in feature test [#61]

wp-cli/wp-config-transformer

  • Fix failing PHPUnit tests [#52]

Contributors

#release, #v2-11-0

WP-CLI v2.10.0 Release Notes

A new release 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/WP-CLI v2.10.0, is now available. For this release, we had 63 contributors collaborate to get 233 pull requests merged. 

As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible.

This is a small release that fixes a lot of small and not so small bugs, but we also have a couple of new features that I’ll want to highlight. As always, you can also skip directly to the detailed changelog if you prefer.

If you already use WP-CLI, updating is as simple as wp cli update. Else, check out our website for recommended installation methods.

New i18n make-php command

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. performance team is working on the Performant Translations feature project, which aims to speed up translations by using PHPPHP 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. files instead of MO files. The goal is to get it ready for WordPress 6.5.

The new i18n make-php command allows you to experiment with these faster translations right away and see how these work for your projects.

# Create PHP files for all PO files in the current directory.

$ wp i18n make-php .

# Create a PHP file from a single PO file in a specific directory.
$ wp i18n make-php example-plugin-de_DE.po languages

Update themes to minor or patch versions

When updating themes with WP-CLI, you can now to choose to only update to the latest minor or patch version with the new flags --minor and --patch.

You could already do this for pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party updates, and now themes are joining the club as well.

Support for adding and removing of multiple user roles

The two commands user add-role and user remove-role are now less lazy and can accept multiple roles to add or remove for a given user. You can make this work by simply adding as many roles as needed as separate arguments.

$ wp user add-role 12 author editor

Success: Added 'author', 'editor' roles for johndoe (12).

$ wp user remove-role 12 author editor
Success: Removed 'author', 'editor' roles for johndoe (12).

FilterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. the site list by user

When displaying a list of sites on your 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. network, you can now filter this list by a site user and only display sites that this user is a part of. You can do so by using the new --site_user flag for the site list command.

This can be helpful for administrative tasks around access control or for offboarding users.

Detailed change log

To avoid too much noise in the list above, the following types of pull requests have been omitted:

  • PRs that only bumped dependencies to their latest version.
  • PRs that only fixed a typo in the documentation.
  • PRs that add a Composer script.

wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle

  • Fix SQLite tests [#588]

wp-cli/wp-cli

  • Fix PHP deprecation warnings [#5897]
  • Only use --skip-column-statistics flag when available [#5895]
  • Handle unparseable tags gracefully [#5894]
  • WpOrgApi: allow specifying fields request parameters [#5893]
  • Remove unneeded compatibility shim [#5885]
  • Use has_config() in get_config() to prevent warnings on null values [#5880]
  • Suggest 'network meta' intead of 'network option' [#5879]
  • Updated docblock for admin.php [#5877]
  • Fix PHP fatals when admin.php has CRLF line endings [#5875]
  • Standard completion of current option [#5873]
  • Add WP_CLI\Utils\has_stdin() function [#5872]
  • Add verbosity level and quiet flag in ssh command based on debug flag [#5869]
  • Remove the pre-commit hook installation and its corresponding command [#5868]
  • Add missing required arguments when using --prompt [#5865]
  • Move RecursiveDataStructureTraverser to wp-cli/wp-cli package [#5864] [#5866] [#5871]
  • Add docker compose command support in SSHSSH Secure SHell - a protocol for securely connecting to a remote system in addition to or in place of a password. command generation [#5863]
  • Add missing documentation for $data attribute in http_request() [#5861]
  • Update inline PHP documentation [#5853]
  • Remove contrib-list.php [#5851]
  • Update release checklist template [#5850]
  • Update tests to accommodate for SQLite [#5849]
  • Post-release version bump after v2.9.0 [#5848]
  • Update Formatter\show_table to use Runner->in_color rather than shouldColorize [#5804]

wp-cli/handbook

wp-cli/wp-cli.github.com

  • Update translations [#434]
  • Fix link in index.md [#433]
  • Update ja/index.md [#432]

wp-cli/checksum-command

  • Add edge case handling checksum verification of hello-dolly plugin [#119]

wp-cli/config-command

  • Add support for MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. socket connection [#171]
  • Fix tests for SQLite [#168]

wp-cli/core-command

  • Add --force-check flag to check-update command [#246]
  • Improve SQLite compatibility [#243]

wp-cli/db-command

  • Better document --skip-column-names for retrieving a specific value [#249]
  • Regenerate README file [#246]
  • Document what wp db check doesn’t do and provide suggestions for next commands [#244]

wp-cli/entity-command

  • Add missing documentation [#451]
  • Add command to get the post ID by URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org [#449]
  • Fix archiving a site by numeric slug [#448]
  • Regenerate README file [#447]
  • Add origin and exclude-role-names filters to list-caps command [#445]
  • Fix deleting a site by a slug that is an integer [#444]
  • Reuse has_stdin() from framework [#443]
  • Remove RecursiveDataStructureTraverser [#442]
  • Support for adding and removing of multiple user roles [#437]
  • Add examples on listing unapproved, spam and trashTrash Trash in WordPress is like the Recycle Bin on your PC or Trash in your Macintosh computer. Users with the proper permission level (administrators and editors) have the ability to delete a post, page, and/or comments. When you delete the item, it is moved to the trash folder where it will remain for 30 days. comments [#436]
  • Fix super admin test on SQLite [#434]
  • Do not assume get_super_admins() has the 0 array index [#432]
  • Improve SQLite compatibility [#431]
  • Fix example for post create command [#458]
  • Update examples for user application delete command [#457]
  • Regenerate README file [#456]
  • Fix variable name in application_name_exists polyfill [#455]
  • Add filter site__user_in on wp site list [#438]

wp-cli/extension-command

  • Regenerate README file [#381]
  • Add update_version to the default fields for plugin and theme commands [#380]
  • Update some tests for SQLite [#378]
  • Remove duplicated code [#391]
  • Switch tests to use site-secrets instead of user-switching [#389]
  • Support 'wporg_status' and 'wporg_last_updated' as optional wp plugin list fields [#382]
  • Regenerate README file [#397]
  • Added --minor and --patch CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. option in wp theme update [#393]
  • Fix counting of errors when attempting activations [#398]

wp-cli/i18n-command

  • make-mo: Add destination file support [#373]
  • Stage the correct files in schema workflow [#370]
  • Update theme-i18n.json [#366]
  • Fix file format in make-php [#379]
  • Regenerate README file [#378]
  • Add file references for plugin/theme headers [#377]
  • Add wp i18n make-php command [#363]

wp-cli/language-command

  • Fix tests after WordPress 6.4 release [#133]
  • Skip some tests on SQLite [#132]
  • Allow for PHP 8.2+ warning on old WP core [#130]
  • Remove use of @require-wp-latest [#135]
  • Re-enable some tests for SQLite [#134]
  • Properly delete JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. & PHP translation files [#137]

wp-cli/maintenance-mode-command

  • Evaluate $upgrading numeric value when checking if maintenance mode is active [#22]

wp-cli/media-command

  • Add --file_name=<name> argument for wp media import [#187]

wp-cli/package-command

  • Fix compatibility with newer Composer versions [#183]

wp-cli/php-cli-tools

  • Fix maxFlag to flagMax and maxOption to optionMax typos in HelpScreen class [#170]
  • Use class instead of static variables for the speed measurement [#168]
  • Remove inexistent post-install-cmd [#167]
  • Fix type hinting for prompt function [#141]

wp-cli/scaffold-command

  • Add @require-mysql for tests with explicit MySQL dependency [#326]
  • Remove Travis CI from wp scaffold plugin-tests [#325]

wp-cli/search-replace-command

  • Skip search and replace on objects that can’t deserialize safely [#192]

  • PHP 8.2 Deprecation: Fix creation of dynamic property. [#193]

wp-cli/super-admin-command

  • PHP 8.2 Deprecation: Fix creation of dynamic property. [#55]

wp-cli/wp-config-transformer

  • Replace DOS line endings with LF [#49]
  • Fix empty line comment parsing by checking for the existing of a line ending [#48]

Contributors

#release, #v2-10-0

WP-CLI v2.9.0 Release Notes

A new release 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/WP-CLI v2.9.0, is now available. For this release, we had 62 contributors collaborate to get 225 pull requests merged. 

As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible.

This is a small release with the main purpose of polishing PHPPHP 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. 8.2 support and ensuring compatibility with WordPress 6.4. Nevertheless, apart from the flurry of bugs that were fixed, we also have a few new features that I’ll want to highlight. As always, you can also skip directly to the detailed changelog if you prefer.

If you already use WP-CLI, updating is as simple as wp cli update. Else, check out our website for recommended installation methods.

wp config is-true

The new wp config is-true command determines whether value of a specific defined constant or variable is truthy. This is useful for scripting purposes. Example:

# Assert if MULTISITE is true
$ wp config is-true MULTISITE
$ echo $?
0

Uninstalling languages for all plugins/themes at once

The wp language plugin and wp language theme commands both now support the --all flag. If set, languages for all plugins will be uninstalled. This brings them more in line with other wp language commands.

Modify sites by slug

All the wp site subcommands, such as wp site archive, wp site delete or wp spam now support a --slug argument instead of passing an ID. Here, the slug is the path of the site to be modified. Subdomain on subdomain installs, directory on subdirectory installs.

SSHSSH Secure SHell - a protocol for securely connecting to a remote system in addition to or in place of a password. ProxyJump support

The wp-cli.yml config file now supports a proxyjump key for hosts to specify a common proxy for all traffic to go through. This is the equivalent of passing the -J argument to ssh.

Beginning testing against SQLite

This is not a change in WP-CLI itself, but starting with WP-CLI 2.9.0, we’re now running all automated tests against SQLite, using the SQLite Database Integration feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. developed by the community. This not only makes contributions easier (as no MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. database server is needed), but also paves the way for eventually supporting using WP-CLI with WordPress sites using SQLite. It’s still a long way to go, but the initial results are very positive. More on this in the future!

In the meantime, this is a great project for our upcoming WP-CLI Hack Day on Friday, November 10th!

Detailed change log

To avoid too much noise in the list above, the following types of pull requests have been omitted:

  • PRs that only bumped dependencies to their latest version.
  • PRs that only fixed a typo in the documentation.
  • PRs that add an allow-plugins rule to Composer.
  • PRs that add a Composer script.

wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle

  • Update to WPCSWordPress Community Support A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016. v3 [#569]
  • No longer necessary to test WordPress latest with PHP 5.6 [#568]
  • Update branch name in wp-cli-updatedeb.sh [#565]
  • Update DEBIAN/control depends to support later versions of PHP [#562]
  • Run trunk deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. tests against PHP 7 instead of PHP 5.6 [#560]

wp-cli/wp-cli

  • Add debugging output for @when command registration [#5841]
  • Fix --skip-themes for WordPress 6.4 [#5840]
  • Update phpcs.xml to match new WPCS rules [#5836]
  • Update to WPCS v3 [#5834]
  • Respect alias --path= in IncludeRequestsAutoloader [#5830]
  • Update type hint of $callable parameter in add_command() method [#5828]
  • Require PHP 7.0 for tests installing WP via Composer [#5825]
  • Require PHP 7+ for installing GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ [#5824]
  • Run test only on PHP 7.0+ [#5823]
  • Display a custom error message when themes/functions.php fatals [#5817]
  • Fix PHP 8.1 deprecation: ReturnTypeWillChange [#5807]
  • Add support for the proxyjump key [#5805]
  • Mention updating the homepage in the release process [#5802]

wp-cli/handbook

  • Add documentation for --context [#466]
  • Remove blank line from HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. table [#465]
  • Add detailed documentation for –ssh [#462]
  • Add some issues for WCUS 2023 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. [#460]
  • Add Rad Web Hosting Provider [#458]
  • Fix handbook manifest JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. corruption [#457]
  • Add a new doc for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Contributor Day [#456]
  • Update plugin-unit-tests.md [#455]
  • Update 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/ links to use search endpoint instead [#453]
  • Fix 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. search-replace example [#451]
  • Adds example --ssh= schemes [#450]
  • Adds common issue for xdebug max nesting errors. [#449]
  • Add more subheadings to Functional Tests [#448]
  • Added “Sort plugins or themes by certain column(s)” to “Snippets” [#446]

wp-cli/cache-command

  • Update to WPCS v3 [#91]
  • Add phpcbf Composer script [#90]
  • Update warning text during multisite cache flushes [#88]

wp-cli/checksum-command

  • Don’t warn about a .maintenance file in the root directory [#114]
  • Regenerate README file [#113]
  • Add an --exclude=<plugin> argument to wp plugin verify-checksums [#104]
  • Update to WPCS v3 [#116]
  • Only run tests on PHP 7.0+ [#115]

wp-cli/config-command

  • Change mysql CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. call to native PHP function [#158]
  • Update to WPCS v3 [#163]
  • Slight tweaks to wp config is-true [#162]
  • Add wp config is-true command [#161]
  • Fail on empty table prefix [#164]
  • Do not use die() when there is a db error [#166]

wp-cli/core-command

  • Tests: Fix tests referencing trunk/nightly [#238]
  • Improve documentation for core is-installed command [#237]
  • Update to WPCS v3 [#241]
  • Only run tests on PHP 7.0+ [#239]
  • Directly pass empty or missing password parameter to WordPress [#232]

wp-cli/cron-command

  • Update to WPCS v3 [#100]
  • Fix incorrect recurrence display for events with invalid schedules [#99]

wp-cli/db-command

  • Update to WPCS v3 [#240]

wp-cli/embed-command

  • Replace asciinema.org in tests [#71]
  • Fix tests [#72]
  • Update to WPCS v3 [#73]

wp-cli/entity-command

  • Regenerate README file [#410]
  • User: Add more examples for scoped password reset [#409]
  • Warn when deleting multisite user with no blog roles [#408]
  • PHP 8.2 Deprecation: Fix creation of dynamic property. [#413]
  • Regenerate README file [#424]
  • Fix typo for $parent_instance param in RecursiveDataStructureTraverser constructor [#422]
  • Update to WPCS v3 [#419]
  • Prevent unexpected missed schedules when generating new posts [#418]
  • Add --slug=<site> as an available parameter to wp site commands [#416]
  • Increase precision of wp post generate test [#425]

Contributors

@Ancocodet@atoomic@benjaminprojas@chesio@cliffordp@connerbw@danielbachhuber@dd32@dlind1@drzraf@elenachavdarova@fmfernandes@GaryJones@gedex@gitlost@greatislander@herregroen@jacksonwp@janw-me@jenkoian@jrfnl@justinmaurerdotdev@l3ku@localheinz@MannyAdumbire@matzeeable@michaelzangl@MiguelAxcar@mrsdizzie@NielsdeBlaauw@oandregal@ocean90@Pathan-Amaankhan@paulschreiber@pbiron@pdaalder@petertwise@petitphp@pmbaldha@ponsfrilus@rafaelzaleski@raicem@rodrigoprimo@rwagner00@schlessera@shendy-a8c@siliconforks@slaFFik@Soean@Souptik2001@spicecadet@stoyan-g@strarsis@swissspidy@tubiz@Tug@wojsmol@wojtekn@WPprodigy@yousan@zzap

#release, #v2-9-0

WP-CLI v2.9.0 release date: October 25th

The v2.9.0 release 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 scheduled to be published on Wednesday, October 25th 2023.

In addition to a lot of bug fixes and enhancements, this release is also expected to address the last known compatibility issues with PHPPHP 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. 8.2 and the upcoming WordPress 6.4 version.

The release candidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. for this release will already be available sometime during the week prior, to allow for early testing. We will announce the availability of that release candidate in the #hosting-community channel to allow hosting providers to do early smoke testing.

#release, #v2-9-0

WP-CLI v2.8.1 Release Notes

A new release 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 available as of today: WP-CLI v2.8.1. For this release, we had 3 contributors collaborate to get 7 pull requests merged. 

This is a hotfix release to fix 2 critical bugs with release v2.8.0.

Detailed change log

wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle

  • Release v2.8.1 [#556]
  • Update Composer lock file [#555]
  • Update wp-cli/search-replace-command to latest [#554]
  • Avoid fatal errors when pulling in the bundle with Requests v2 via Composer [#552]

wp-cli/wp-cli

  • Define WP_CLI_ROOT if needed [#5797]
  • Extract Requests out of Composer [#5796]

wp-cli/search-replace-command

  • Fix search-replace for tables with composite primary keys [#183]

Contributors

@brandonpayton, @danielbachhuber, @schlessera

#release, #v2-8-1

WP-CLI v2.8.0 Release Notes

After a bit of unexpected delay, a new release 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 available as of today: WP-CLI v2.8.0. For this release, we had 66 contributors collaborate to get 277 pull requests merged. 

As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible.

This is a small release with the main purpose of polishing PHPPHP 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. 8.1/8.2 support. Nevertheless, apart from the flurry of bugs that were fixed, we also have a few new features that I’ll want to highlight. As always, you can also skip directly to the detailed changelog if you prefer.

Bundled with Requests v2

The last component that needed updating for full PHP 8.1 was the bundled Requests library. With the move to v2 of Requests, adding support for PHP 8.1 seems to be complete, an.d PHP 8.2 is starting to look good as well.

Note that the way the dependencies interact between WP-CLI and WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (which has no proper dependency management that could help out here) makes for a somewhat hacky solution at this time. We’re looking into something more robust for a future release, but until then make sure you submit issues when you encounter edge cases that the current approach does not yet take into account.

Improve support for caching solutions

There is a new command wp cache supports <feature> to detect cache features like add_multiple. Furthermore, we have a new command wp cache flush-group that allows you to flush at the group level. Also, WP-CLI now produces warning when you use wp transient list when an object cache is active. Finally, WP-CLI now recognizes Object Cache Pro as a caching solution.

$ wp cache supports add_multiple
$ echo $?
0

$ wp cache flush-group my_group
Success: Cache group 'my_group' was flushed.

Fetch URLs of entities

For the posts, terms and comments, you can now retrieve their canonical URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org via the --field=url argument. As an example, you can retrieve the URL of the post with ID 123 via the following command:

$ wp post get 123 --field=url
https://example.com/hello-world-the-sequel/

Skip config changes 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. conversion

In case you’re working on a read-only filesystem or are forced to push file changes through VCS, you can now skip the automatic config file changes that wp core multisite-convert does. All you need to do is add the --skip-config flag, and the command will not only obey that choice, but also conveniently print the changes you need to make to the config file manually. This behavior was already included with wp core multisite-install, but now the conversion command knows this trick too.

$ wp core multisite-convert --skip-config
Set up multisite database tables.
Addition of multisite constants to 'wp-config.php' skipped. You need to add them manually:
define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );
define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', {$subdomain_export} );
\$base = '/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'example.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
Success: Network installed. Don't forget to set up rewrite rules (and a .htaccess file, if using Apache).

Verify checksums for the root folder

The wp core verify-checksums now has a new --include-root flag that makes it scan and verify the root folder as well (the one that ABSPATH points to).

$ wp core verify-checksums --include-root
Warning: File should not exist: dump.sql
Warning: File should not exist: backdoor.php

Configure autoloading behavior for options

Two new commands wp option get-autoload and wp option set-autoload have been added to change the autoloading behavior for an existing option. This was not easily possible with wp option update as that only allowed the autoloading to change when the value changed as well.

$ wp option add foo bar
Success: Added 'foo' option.
$ wp option get-autoload foo
yes
$ wp option set-autoload foo no
Success: Updated autoload value for 'foo' option.
$ wp option set-autoload foo no
Success: Autoload value passed for 'foo' option is unchanged.

New flags for password reset

The command wp user reset-password now has two new flags. The first one is --show-password, and it will immediately show the new password as it is being reset. The second one is --porcelain, and it will show only the password and nothing else as output of the command. The latter one is useful for scripting purposes.

$ wp user reset-password admin --skip-email --show-password
Reset password for admin.
Password: bt6Hy!9*P0A1
Success: Password reset for 1 user.

$ wp user reset-password admin --skip-email --porcelain
yV6BP*!d70wg

Include ad-hoc code instead of evaluating it

If you’re using the wp eval-file command, it will read the file you point it to and run it through the PHP eval logic. This has a few drawbacks, though. One one hand, directives like declare(strict_types=1) will throw errors. On the other, it is not possible to use XDebug to debug such an evaluated piece of code.

To counter this, the wp eval-file command now has a new --use-include flag that makes it include the file you’re pointing to, instead of running it through eval. Note that this does not work with STDIN as input, so the - file argument can not be used at the same time as the --use-include flag.

Detailed change log

To avoid too much noise in the list above, the following types of pull requests have been omitted:

  • PRs that only bumped dependencies to their latest version.
  • PRs that only fixed a typo in the documentation.
  • PRs that add an allow-plugins rule to Composer.
  • PRs that add a Composer script.

wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle

  • Adapt tests for Requests [#540]
  • Skip update-framework.yml workflow on forks [#537]
  • Add a workflow to keep wp-cli/wp-cli up to date [#507]
  • Move the new README into its proper location [#478]
  • Add a new bundle-specific README [#476]
  • Use Composer 2.2 LTS for PHP < 7.2 [#472]
  • Detect if running Phar via CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. SAPI [#465]
  • Use ramsey/composer-install in Deployment workflow [#463]

wp-cli/wp-cli

  • Harden loading of upgrader [#5791]
  • Ignore Requests deprecations in error handling for now [#5790]
  • Fallback to hardcoded folder when WPINC not defined [#5786]
  • Add RequestsLibrary::get_bundled_certificate_path() method [#5785]
  • Conditionally adapt to Core Requests library [#5783]
  • Add bootstrap step to extract default CA certificate [#5781]
  • Revert “Extract cacert from Phar for cURL” [#5780]
  • Use wp_cache_flush_runtime if supported. [#5778]
  • Extract cacert from Phar for cURL [#5777]
  • Fix some PHP 8.2 depreciation notices in behat tests [#5776]
  • Use rtrim on phar-safe path to avoid double slash [#5775]
  • Upgrade WP-CLI to Requests v2 [#5774]
  • Added wp cli alias is-group subcommand. [#5766]
  • Update test to reflect warning when --url=<url> is provided [#5763]
  • Use -R instead of -r for fallback pager command [#5759]
  • Fix autocompletion notice with PHP 8.2 [#5749]
  • Fix PHP Deprecation for 8.1 [#5743]
  • Use WP_CLI_FORCE_USER_LOGIN=1 to force --user=<login> [#5738]
  • Fix --skip-themes for themes with blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. patterns [#5737]
  • Make sure subcommand @alias definition respects @when definition [#5730]
  • Improve docs for SHELL_PIPE [#5729]
  • Use awk instead of sed to create BOM in feature test [#5728]
  • Add runtime_args to options array for runcommand [#5722]
  • Fix deprecation notice triggered in WpOrgApi class in PHP 8.1 [#5717]
  • Fix return type of make_progress_bar [#5715]
  • Add name context to before_invoke and after_invoke [#5712]
  • Check that proc_open() is available in Process::run() [#5711]
  • Improve support for cases with empty --path provided to commands [#5709]
  • Fix composer test after branch rename [#5708]
  • PHP 8.2: explicitly declare CompositeCommand::$longdesc to fix deprecation warning [#5707]
  • Detect Object Cache Pro [#5698]
  • Ensure WP_CLI_ROOT is defined before accessing it [#5697]
  • Fix proc_open_compat util on Windows [#5689]
  • Move WP_CLI_CONFIG_SPEC_FILTER_CALLBACK test to flags.feature [#5687]

wp-cli/handbook

  • Replacement added for the && [#444]
  • Add HostRiver to list of hosting companies [#442]
  • Add DataPerk to list of hosting companies [#441]
  • Include a couple more helpful Behat calls [#440]
  • Add maintainer expectations to the Governance page [#439]
  • Fill out page for wp profile [#437]
  • Link to ‘Shell Friends’ from the Philosophy doc [#435]
  • Add example for how to discard headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. row from CSV [#434]
  • Uppercase for ‘Committers Credo’ title [#433]
  • Update hosting-companies.md [#432]
  • Move the Doctor docs under ‘Guides’ [#431]
  • Add secondary wp doctor content and a landing page [#430]
  • Add two primary wp doctor docs to the handbook [#429]
  • Fix phar download url [#428]
  • Adding new pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to handbook [#427]
  • Corrected local jumplinks [#426]
  • Running commands remotely: On restrictive webhost [#425]
  • Remove BackupBuddy [#423]
  • Remove non existing tool [#421]

wp-cli/wp-cli.github.com

  • Update index.md [#428]
  • Add “WP-CLI” heading [#427]
  • Update German readme [#426]
  • Update ja/index.md [#424]
  • Current stable release is 2.6.0 [#423]

wp-cli/cache-command

  • Warn when wp transient list is used with external object cache [#82]
  • Give a warning when flushing cache on multisite with --url=<url> [#86]
  • Add wp cache flush-group for flushing a cache group [#85]
  • Add wp cache supports <feature> command [#84]

wp-cli/checksum-command

  • Fix failing checksum tests due to timeout on WP_VERSION=trunk [#99]
  • Pass false instead of null to fix PHP 8.1 warning [#103]
  • Add --include-root parameter to also verify root directory [#102]
  • Verify a specific plugin version [#108]
  • Log warning if WpOrgApi::get_plugin_checksums() fails [#105]

wp-cli/core-command

  • Fix failing tests by switching to WordPress 4.1 as minor update test [#223]
  • Fix failing test by setting WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE=false [#222]
  • Fix deprecation notices in PHP 8.1 [#220]
  • Resolve tests failures from WordPress 6.2 [#229]
  • Leave wp-content/plugins and wp-content/themes directories when using --skip-content [#230]
  • Check more files to determine if WordPress is present or not [#233]
  • Add a --skip-config flag to wp core multisite-convert [#231]
  • Fix tests for Requests v2 support [#235]

wp-cli/cron-command

  • Use wp_get_ready_cron_jobs() for --due-now to apply core filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. [#89]
  • Warn instead of fatal when invalid cron event is detected [#93]
  • Add --exclude=<hooks> argument to wp cron event run [#97]

wp-cli/db-command

  • Fix retrieval of get_post_table_characterset [#231]

wp-cli/entity-command

  • Add example for deleting multiple post IDs [#387]
  • Add --field=url support for posts, comments, and terms [#383]
  • Add wp option get-autoload and wp option set-autoload [#382]
  • Replace empty namespace autoloader with classmap [#390]
  • Do not mark main site as spam when using wp user spam [#393]
  • Clarify url field in wp site list docs [#401]
  • Change new passwords to 24 characters in a few places [#399]
  • Add examples and update the documentation to the wp post term [#398]
  • Add --show-password flag to user reset-password [#394]
  • Warn when an invalid role is provided for wp user update [#406]

wp-cli/eval-command

  • Add --use-include flag [#64]

wp-cli/export-command

  • Update post__in documentation to mention space-separated [#104]
  • Update tests using WordPress Importer to require WordPress 5.2 [#102]
  • Add --include_once=<section> parameter for before_posts data in multi-file exports [#100]
  • Exclude unnecessary author IDs from oembed_cache posts in export [#99]

wp-cli/extension-command

  • Fix failing tests [#347]
  • Fix failing PHP 5.6 tests by requiring WP 5.2 [#342]
  • Delete plugin translation files when plugin is uninstalled [#339]
  • Don’t report an error when 5 out of 5 plugins were updated [#338]
  • Remove extra space [#335]
  • Add format option to wp plugin|theme auto-updates status [#351]
  • Include optional 'auto_updates' field in plugin and theme lists [#350]
  • Avoid deleting theme if the specified version cannot be found [#349]
  • Ensure a stable version is used when --minor or --patch specified [#355]
  • Fix fatal error in invalid plugin update offer [#354]
  • Fix PHP 8.2 ‘Creation of dynamic property’ warning [#360]

wp-cli/i18n-command

  • PHP 8.2: fix ${var} string interpolation deprecation warning [#346]
  • Add more standard ‘excludes’ values [#351]
  • Fix unclosed quote [#350]
  • CI: Ensure PHPUnit workflow actually runs [#360]
  • Fix deprecated partially-supported callables for PHP 8.2 [#359]
  • update-po: Check for destination [#356]

wp-cli/import-command

  • Fix failing tests with @require-wp-5.2 [#79]
  • Document use of the IMPORT_DEBUG constant [#82]

wp-cli/language-command

  • Switch to twentytwentyone to fix failing tests [#118]

wp-cli/media-command

  • Fx typo in import command longdesc [#172]
  • Travis is no longer in use, so fine to remove config files [#171]
  • Avoid deleting metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. for other sizes when running wp media regenerate with --image_size [#170]
  • Support --post_name= when importing media [#166]
  • Correct argument for fix-orientation subcommand [#165]
  • Remove tests around square image thumbnail regeneration [#177]

wp-cli/package-command

  • Fix failing package-command tests [#164]
  • Mark the test with yoast/wp-cli-faker as @broken [#170]
  • Adapt bundled certificate access [#174]

wp-cli/php-cli-tools

  • Add annotations to remove deprecated warning message on PHP 8.1[#152]
  • Restore PHPUnit test runs [#155]
  • Fix PHP Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property [#158]

wp-cli/rewrite-command

  • Support full URLs for wp rewrite list --match=<url> [#59]

wp-cli/role-command

  • Add explanation of what happens for wp role reset [#58]
  • Fix fatal error when resetting an already deleted role [#57]
  • Fix support for --grant=false argument [#59]

wp-cli/scaffold-command

  • Update the 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/ URL for db.php [#317]
  • Add phpcompatibility-wp coding standards to Gitlab template [#315]
  • Use platform-agnostic mysql-client packages in Gitlab CI [#314]
  • Added vendor to the generated .gitignore which the scaffold creates [#279]

wp-cli/search-replace-command

  • Make is_text_col‘s search case-insensitive for sqlite support [#177]
  • Fix regex invalid delimiter test for PHP 8.2 [#181]
  • Address long-running queries and OOM contributor in PHP replacement [#180]

wp-cli/wp-config-transformer

  • Update status badge in README.md [#40]
  • Avoid test failure with assertNotSame instead of assertNotEquals [#41]
  • Fix incorrect return type in docblock for get_value() [#43]

Contributors

@aerogus, @agrullon95, @akirk, @benjaminprojas, @BhargavBhandari90, @brandonpayton, @bukowa, @cliffordp, @connerbw, @danielbachhuber, @dd32, @dlind1, @drzraf, @dsXLII, @elenachavdarova, @endriu84, @gagan0123, @gedex, @gitlost, @greatislander, @hbhalodia, @herregroen, @janw-me, @jenkoian, @joeldcanfield, @josedumas, @jrfnl, @kozer, @l3ku, @lipemat, @localheinz, @matzeeable, @michaelzangl, @mpkelly, @mrsdizzie, @mweimerskirch, @oandregal, @ocean90, @ouikhuan, @paulschreiber, @pbiron, @pdaalder, @pmbaldha, @ponsfrilus, @pwtyler, @r-a-y, @Rahmon, @rodrigoprimo, @rutviksavsani, @Saggre, @schlessera, @semseysandor, @SH4LIN, @shendy-a8c, @siliconforks, @srtfisher, @SteenSchutt, @strarsis, @stuartlangridge, @swissspidy, @tecking, @Tug, @tyrann0us, @wojsmol, @wojtekn, @yousan

#release, #v2-8-0

WP-CLI v2.8.0 release date

The v2.8.0 release 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 scheduled to be published on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023.

Amongst others a multitude of bug fixes and some new features, we’re also expecting this release to fix all known PHPPHP 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. 8.2 issues within WP-CLI itself.

The release candidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. for this release will already be available sometime during the week prior, to allow for early testing. We will announce the availability of that release candidate in the #hosting-community channel to allow hosters to do early smoke testing.

#release, #v2-8-0

WP-CLI v2.7.1 Release Notes

A new release 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 available as of today: WP-CLI v2.7.1. For this release, we had 4 contributors collaborate to get 12 pull requests merged. 

As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible. 

This is a patch release to fix a few regressions that were introduced with release v2.7.0.

Detailed change log

To avoid too much noise in the list above, the following types of pull requests have been omitted:

  • PRs that only bumped dependencies to their latest version.
  • PRs that only fixed a typo in the documentation.
  • PRs that add an allow-plugins rule to Composer

wp-cli/core-command

  • Avoid deleting TinyMCE themes/plugins by using more precise check [#215]

wp-cli/db-command

  • Fix PHPPHP 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. 8.1 fatal error with --orderby=size and --size_format=mb [#230]

wp-cli/extension-command

  • Avoid throwing error when excluding missing pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party [#332]

wp-cli/search-replace-command

  • Use empty string default value for flags to safeguard the use of explode() [#169]

Contributors

@cjhaas, @danielbachhuber, @schlessera, @wojsmol

#release, #v2-7-1

WP-CLI v2.7.0 Release Notes

A new release 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 available as of today: WP-CLI v2.7.0. For this release, we had 48 contributors collaborate to get 195 pull requests merged. 🎉

As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible. ❤️

This is a small release with the main purpose of getting some much needed bug fixes into a stable version. Nevertheless, we also have a few new features that I’ll want to highlight. As always, you can also skip directly to the detailed changelog if you prefer.

Support for docker-compose run

The --ssh flag and ssh configuration key (and along with them the remote execution aliases) have learned a new scheme: docker-compose-run:.

The docker: and docker-compose: schemes for the ssh option are useful, but they only work when the target container is already running and therefore supports running a shell command via docker[-compose] exec.

Some environments, for example the wordpress-develop local development environment, run WP-CLI via a container that only starts when needed and therefore requires the use of run instead of exec.

With the support of the new docker-compose-run scheme in place you could put the following config into the root of any project that uses wordpressdevelop/cli and then simply use wp <cmd> instead of npm run env:cli -- <cmd> or docker-compose run cli -- <cmd>.

# wp-cli.yml
ssh: docker-compose-run:cli

Customizable global parameters

It was not previously possible to extend the list of parameters without modifying the WP-CLI source files. While we are still considering different options for making the global parameters extensibleExtensible This is the ability to add additional functionality to the code. Plugins extend the WordPress core software. via a clean APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways., we already needed a short-term solution for a specific use case.

Because of this, we now introduced a set of small changes that allow the global parameters to be adapted on a “platform level”. This means that, for now, you can change the global parameters, but only if you control the environment in which WP-CLI is being executed in. This functionality works through the combination of the following changes:

  • A new constant WP_CLI_CONFIG_SPEC_FILTER_CALLBACK is being checked to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. the array that the config-spec.php file has provided.
  • A new environment variable WP_CLI_EARLY_REQUIRE is checked to allow for the environment to provide extra PHPPHP 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. bootstrapping logic.

You can use both of these to let the WP_CLI_EARLY_REQUIRE load a PHP file that defines a new filter callback and then sets the WP_CLI_CONFIG_SPEC_FILTER_CALLBACK to point to that filter.

This test snippet shows an example of how these two mechanisms can be used in tandem:

Download WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. files without extracting them

Previously, you could already use the core download command not only to retrieve the set of files from the WordPress central servers. But we did not have a way to solely download a ZIP archive of WordPress Core instead.

Now you can do so via the --extract flag. This is on by default to keep with the current behavior, but you can now switch extraction off by adding the --no-extract flag.

Why would you do that, if it is a single file download you could also trigger via wget or curl? Well, for one, it uses the HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. stack of WordPress/WP-CLI to do the download. And what’s more, it allows you to use the smart WP-CLI flags like --version to automatically retrieve the file from the right URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org.

Directly install a specific locale

Previously, when you wanted to install a locale of WordPress Core other than the default en_US, you had to first run a wp core install, and then switch the locale in a second step.

Now, WP-CLI allows you to select a specific locale right away via core install‘s new --locale flag.

Ordering of the db size results

To quickly see what the biggest tables in your installation are, you can now make use of the new --order and --orderby flags. The most useful example would be to use --orderby=size --order=desc to get the largest tables first.

Clean duplicate metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. values

Due to limitations of the WordPress database schema, the WordPress importer can end up inadvertently creating duplicate post meta entries if the import is run multiple times.

WP-CLI has now learned a new command to remove duplicate post meta values for a given meta key.

# Delete duplicate post meta.
wp post meta clean-duplicates 1234 enclosure
Success: Cleaned up duplicate 'enclosure' meta values.

Exclude select plugins on certain pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party commands

The plugin commands activate, deactivate, delete and uninstall now accept an additional --exclude flag if you use their --all flag.

The --exclude accepts a comma-separated list of plugin slugs, and allows you to do operations in the vein of “deactivate all plugins except for these few ones”.

# Deactivate all plugins with exclusion
$ wp plugin deactivate --all --exclude=hello,wordpress-seo
Plugin 'contact-form-7' deactivated.
Plugin 'ninja-forms' deactivated.
Success: Deactivated 2 of 2 plugins.

Multiple changes to the i18n support

In our ongoing effort to further internationalization support within GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/, we have made yet another around of i18n changes and additions.

Most of the changes deal with changes to block.json and theme.json, in order to support all the latest fields and mechanisms.

Also, there is now a new update-po command. Up until now, if you added a new translation to one of your plugins, you could update the messages.pot file with make-pot, but you’d have to update existing po files with the new translation by hand. With the new i18n update-po (which is a WP-CLI alternative to msgmerge), you get around this without requiring manual edits.

And finally, i18n now supports PHP Blade templates as an additional input format to parse for translations.

Detailed change log

To avoid too much noise in the list above, the following types of pull requests have been omitted:

  • PRs that only bumped dependencies to their latest version.
  • PRs that only fixed a typo in the documentation.
  • PRs that add an allow-plugins rule to Composer

wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle

  • Add eftect/bladeone to PHAR for i18n-command [#417]

wp-cli/wp-cli

  • Add support for docker-compose run to the --ssh option [#5637]
  • Internalize global_terms_enabled() [#5684]
  • Add cache directory path to cli info output [#5681]
  • Always return PHP_BINARY when using a PHAR bundle [#5672]
  • Load config-spec.php in a “filterable” way [#5664]
  • Use different action for admin context logic [#5663]
  • Require v3.1.6 of wp-cli/wp-cli-tests [#5659]
  • Address some PHP 8.1 deprecation notices [#5658]
  • Document return type for WP_CLI::halt() as never [#5651]
  • Fix skip theme tests [#5646]
  • Add missing $upgrade argument to enable_maintenance_mode filter [#5630]
  • Handle optional option values in SynopsisParser::render() [#5618]
  • Add missing relative namespace [#5616]

wp-cli/handbook

  • Add additional instructions to override the DB test credentials. [#410]

wp-cli/cache-command

  • Make transients deletion test more robust [#74]

wp-cli/config-command

  • Prevent WP_DEBUG already defined when provided via --extra-php [#144]

wp-cli/core-command

  • Add --extract flag to core download [#204]
  • Update the link in the docblock of core multisite-convert command [#201]
  • Add --locale parameter [#133]
  • Remove only themes/plugins folders on --skip-content [#212]

wp-cli/db-command

  • Fix broken tests due to DB connection failure error message change [#224]
  • Stop reordering most MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. arguments [#221]
  • Add support for --order, --orderby flags in db size command [#226]

wp-cli/entity-command

  • Use https in post generate example [#355]
  • Support filtering for users without a role with --role=none [#360]
  • Sync user-contributed example to user delete [#358]
  • Fix JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. formatting in feature file [#368]
  • Add post meta clean-duplicates <id> <key> command [#366]
  • Document primary_blog meta key for users [#365]
  • Allow user_url to be set with user create [#372]
  • Show error when parameter is missing in option patch [#371]
  • Use current_time() for setting the default value for user_registered in user create [#378]
  • Add examples for option patch command [#375]

wp-cli/export-command

  • Fix test for attachment serialization [#96]

wp-cli/extension-command

  • Add optional --exclude=<name> argument for multiple plugin commands [#321]
  • Fix broken Behat tests [#318]
  • Add title/description for mu-plugins [#305]
  • Avoid deleting parent of active theme unless using --force [#324]
  • Exit with 0 when checked theme is active parent theme [#327]

wp-cli/i18n-command

  • Extract pattern metadata (title & description) [#312]
  • Look for theme.json files in the styles directory of a theme [#311]
  • Translate title field from theme.json [#306]
  • Add support for PHP-Blade files [#304]
  • Fix include logic where include path is subdirectory of excluded path [#302]
  • Add missing docs for make-mo command [#315]
  • Add update-po command [#316]
  • Improve warnings for strings with different comments [#318]
  • Extract some shared code into FileDataExtractor [#321]
  • Update and combine theme.json and block.json extractors [#319]
  • Improve theme patterns and styles lookup [#320]
  • Use preg_match instead of mb_ereg [#317]
  • Prefix JSON files with text domain if needed [#313]

wp-cli/import-command

  • Bail with status code if file does not exist [#75]

wp-cli/language-command

  • Add warning for nonexistent plugins [#115]

wp-cli/media-command

  • Fix read error detection in EXIF discovery [#162]

wp-cli/package-command

  • Adapt test for changed Composer output [#151]

wp-cli/php-cli-tools

  • Fix ${var} string interpolation deprecation [#148]
  • Fix logic to check for TTY [#146]

wp-cli/scaffold-command

  • Deprecate scaffold block in favor of @wordpress/create-block [#311]
  • Add 'testsuite' name in phpunit.xml.dist [#310]
  • Add backup files ending with tilde to default .distignore [#273]

wp-cli/search-replace-command

  • Restore blogdescription to fix test [#171]
  • Add further suppression of warnings and notices [#172]

wp-cli/server-command

  • Restore blogdescription to fix test [#75]

Contributors

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#release, #v2-7-0