Reinstall WordPress Core using WP-CLI
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
WP-CLI
💡 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.
Dumping specific tables using mysqldump or WP-CLI
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 →
5 Easy ways to Create a WordPress Admin user
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 →
Download WP-CLI & set custom PHP Version
Recently I was migrating a website from GoDaddy shared hosting using WP-CLI and noticed the PHP version in cli was outdated.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 →
Use Regex with WP CLI to 🔎 Search & Replace in Database
When cleaning websites that have large databases, regular text editors can’t even open the database dumps (Notepad++ supports files up to 2GB in size). So to run a search and replace on large database dumps I suggest using regex-replace line-by-line in PHP, or setting up WPCLI and running regex search & replace. Here is a … Read full article →
Create WP-CLI Aliases
IF you use the same commands often you can save them as aliases so that you have them always available. For example, the following commands will check if WP core, installed plugins and themes have updates available: You can combine the commands into a one-liner: and you can create an alias for this command: so … Read full article →
Install WP-CLI on cPanel shared hosting
If you have root-level access to the server you can follow this guide to install WP CLI on your WHM/cPanel server: https://blog.cpanel.com/wp-cli-install-and-manage-wordpress-on-the-command-line/ If you don’t have access to the root account nor can run sudo, but still have a user/level access to the terminal like from the cPanel terminal let’s say, then you can still … Read full article →