Overview
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Learn to use the WordPress command-line interface, and the scenarios when it’s preferable over the dashboard.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- What is WP-CLI?
- Who is it for?
- What you should know
- How WordPress works under the hood
- Environment setup
- Using WP-CLI with Local
- Manually installing WP-CLI
- A look at WP-CLI commands
- Interacting with Core
- Working with themes
- Working with plugins
- Sidebars, widgets, and menus
- Getting post type information
- Managing existing posts
- Generating dummy data
- Interacting with comments
- Terms and taxonomies
- Managing media
- Roles and capabilities
- Managing specific users
- Reading and changing options
- Flushing cache, transients, and embeds
- Overview of wp db commands
- Querying the database
- Maintaining the database
- Exporting, importing, search, and replace
- Installing WordPress using WP-CLI
- Advanced WP-CLI topics
- Next steps
