How to Install WP-CLI On a Linux Server?
It is very important to keep your WordPress installations, plugins and themes up-to-date. For this process, we can use WP-CLI. WP-CLI is a command line interface for WordPress. You can update plugins, configure multisite install and much more without using the WordPress dashboard. WP-CLI provides a set of command line tools for upgrading the WordPress core files. Using WP-CLI you can keep your WordPress website up to date and keep your server safe and clean from malicious files. In this tutorial let’s have a look into how we can install and use WP-CLI.
1) Login your server via SSH as root.
# ssh root@your server IP address
2) Enter into the directory /opt
# cd /opt
3) Now download the wp-cli file
# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
4) You can verify whether the file works or not by executing the following command.
# php wp-cli.phar –info
5) Make the downloaded file executable.
# chmod +x wp-cli.phar
6) Move it to the directory “/usr/local/bin/” on your server. If you want you can rename the downloaded to something simpler, so you can execute it easily at every time you wish to.
# mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wordpress
7) After making the file executable and moving into the above-mentioned directory, you are able to run the WP-CLI. For this, you have to navigate to the WordPress installed directory on your server.
# cd /wordpressinstalleddirectory/
8) To check the version of the WordPress installation on your server execute the following command.
# wordpress core version
9) To update the WordPress installation on your server, execute the following command.
# wordpress core update
10) If you want to update the themes you can execute the following.
# wordpress theme update –all
11) To update all the plugins, you have to execute the following.
# wordpress plugin update –all
Likewise, you can update a single plugin too using after the plugin enters the preferred plugin name in the above command.
12) Similarly, you can install/uninstall a plugin using WP-CLI.
# wordpress plugin install “pluginname”
Replace the plugin name with the preferred plugin name you wish to update.
13) To activate a plugin, execute the below-mentioned command.
# wordpress plugin activate “pluginname”
Similarly, you can deactivate a plugin too.
14) To list all the installed plugins execute the following.
# wordpress plugin list
You can get more information about WP-CLI by running the command below.
# wordpress –help
Hence we have learned how to install and use WP-CLI on your Linux server.
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