💡 WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress that lets you manage your WordPress site, themes, and plugins from the terminal.
Here you can find most useful WP-CLI commands and tutorials.
Here are some useful commands to clear cache from the terminal with wpcli: cdn_purge purge URLs from CDN and Varnish flush all flushes all cache related to W3TC (Page Cache, OC, DB Cache, Minify, etc.) flush page flushes pages cache only flush posts flushes both pages & posts cache flush database flushes DB cache flush … Read full article →
You can download older versions of any plugin hosted on WordPress.org directly from the website or from WP-CLI. To download older plugin versions from WordPress.org click on the Advanced view link scroll down to the end of the page and under Previous Versions select the version that you would like to download. that’s it! Another … Read full article →
Tab completion is a useful time-saving feature of command line interfaces. To enable tab completion for WP-CLI We need to edit the ~/.bash_profile file. Step 1. In your home directory download WP-CLI tab completion file Step 2. Edit your ~/.bash_profile and add the following line: source ~/wp-completion.bash Save and exit. Step 3. Source the profile … Read full article →
Useful WP-CLI commands that I use when cleaning hacked WordPress websites in order to reinstall WP core, all themes, and plugins from WordPress.org
For high-traffic websites, I advise developing a stagging website if you make significant updates or even switch the WordPress theme entirely. But one significant problem I encountered while moving from the staging site to the live one is that all database tables are updated, which could result in financial loss if the website receives multiple … Read full article →
Here are five different methods to create a new WordPress Admin user. In all of the examples below I will use the following username/password combination, so make sure to change it before running any of the commands: username123 change username123 with your username password123 change password123 with your password [email protected] change [email protected] with your email … Read full article →
In this post, I will be using 3 free tools to scan WordPress websites for vulnerabilities. NAME PLATFORM HOW TO USE LIMITS WPScan Windows & Linux terminal free plan: 25 reports daily WPSEC website online free plan: 20 scans daily Burp Suite Windows & Linux application ∞ 1. From the terminal: WPScan If you have … Read full article →
Recently I was migrating a website from GoDaddy shared hosting using WP-CLI and noticed the PHP version in cli was outdated. Here is how to install WP-CLI and set custom PHP version for the cli. Setup WP-CLI To download WP cli: To run it use php wp-cli.phar To make it easier to call We’ll rename … Read full article →
If you used shortcodes from a certain plugin or a theme and then stop using either one, then chances are that you still have shortcodes that no longer translate into anything. In this guide We will be using WP CLI Shortcode scrapper package to find all shortcodes in the database. This command works by searching … Read full article →
We recently made a list of the most useful WP-CLI commands with examples and how to fix the most common WPCLI errors but there are a lot of maintenance tasks that can be done with WP-CLI that We haven’t included in this list. One of those tasks is reinstalling WordPress Core using WP-CLI. Step 1. … Read full article →