Title: wp-cli – Make WordPress Core

---

#  Tag Archives: wp-cli

 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/) [Matt Mullenweg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/)
9:30 pm _on_ December 28, 2016     
Tags: wp-cli   

# 󠀁[Supporting the Future of wp-cli](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/12/28/supporting-the-future-of-wp-cli/)󠁿

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/](http://wp-cli.org/)
[https://make.wordpress.org/cli/](https://make.wordpress.org/cli/) is a command-
line interface that is deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment
to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. and relied upon
by almost every major user of WordPress out there. As we head into 2017, I wanted
to make sure that its future is certain for everyone who builds on it, and that 
the major contributors to the project, chiefly Daniel Bachhuber, are able to work
on it even more in the coming year.

To that end there are two big announcements:

1. The website of wp-cli.org, the code / 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 by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/),
Twitter, and such are all coming in under the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community
site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you 
can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the
central location for community conversations and organization. [https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/)
umbrella and there will be a CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac,
Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. Make site with a P2P2 A [free theme for WordPress](http://p2theme.com/),
known for front-end posting, used by WordPress for development updates and project
management. See our [main development blog](https://make.wordpress.org/core/) and
[other workgroup blogs](https://make.wordpress.org/). and all of the resources that
used to be under wp-cli.org. There is already [#cli](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/cli/)
on Slack and that will continue. (Will live at https://make.wordpress.org/cli.)

2. I’m going to be bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem
to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel and others can 
devote more time to making wp-cli better and better through 2017. This is a continuation
of [the fundraising started a few weeks ago](http://wp-cli.org/blog/the-big-question.html).

This will all happen the first part of January, and I’m looking to a full and exciting
year for wp-cli. Also big thanks to everyone who has chipped in, whether time or
money, to support the project in the past. It has been one of the highest impact
developments for WP in many years.

Many of the logistics are yet to be determined. Feel free to weigh in with questions,
feedback, etc. in the comments, or join [#cli](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/cli/)
on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/).
We’ll do our best to keep everyone in the loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by 
WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be 
displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified
criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed
on each post. [https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop](https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
as things develop.

[#wp-cli](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/wp-cli/)