347 – Quickly Work On Your Site with WP-CLI

Announcements New Editor for WordPress mobile apps Is there a plugin for that? With more than 48,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository. For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook. Keyring Social Importers is a plugin that will allow you to pull in content from your social sites and create posts on your WordPress site. Quickly Work On Your Site with WP-CLI Your WordPress site can be controlled on the command line. It’s a tool that allows you to maintain WordPress without the standard GUI. You can find out more at wp-cli.org Some features of using the command line: Far easier to perform bulk operations Better visibility into WordPress internals Cron, cache, transients, etc. CLI is not subject to timeouts the way a browser would be Easier filesystem operations Able to script (allthethings) We can use WP CLI to: Deploy WordPress core updates Install/activate/update/delete themes + plugins Troubleshoot issues with WP_Cron, transients, cache, etc. Schedule maintenance routines Data migrations and transformations Practice these things with WP-CLI: Fun with posts: - create 200 dummy posts on your site - list all of the post_ids on your site as a csv - change the title on one of your posts to something interesting - create and save a text file with some fun text in it - set the contents of the post with the new title to the contents of the text file - create a tag called "important" - add this tag to the post with the new title Themes/Users: - install twentyeleven - activate twentyeleven on your site - search for a .org theme with "news" in the name of the theme - install one that looks good - activate it - disable and delete twentyeleven Fun with important plugins: - Install and activate jetpack - Install woocommerce - issue a command that will tell you how many plugins are installed - list all installed plugins - deactivate and reactivate woocommerce - update jetpack Images: - create a folder of a few images on your computer - import them to your media library - regenerate thumbnails for those images Ka-boom!: - export a copy of your database - delete your entire database (!!) your site is now totally broken - restore your database from the file that you exported Export/Import: - export a wpcom site - import that to your local site Thank You! Thank you to those who use my affiliate links. As you know I make a small commission when someone uses my link and I want to say thank you to the following people. For all my recommended resources, go to my Resources Page View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com