Awesome Command Line Interface For WordPress – Massive Collection of Resources

Contents

• Official links
• Third-party packages
  • Package discovery
  • Notable packages
• Tutorials & guides

Official links

Everything relevant that is directly part of the official WP-CLI team.

• wp-cli.org – Homepage of the WP-CLI project.
• WP-CLI handbook – Guides on how to use or extend WP-CLI.
• WP-CLI command reference – Reference documentation for all the official WP-CLI commands.
• Make WordPress.org – CLI – Main entry point for contributing to WP-CLI.
  • Contributing guide – Everything you need to know to contribute to the tool or its infrastructure.
  • Official MakeWP Slack – Official Slack team where all international contributions to WordPress and its teams are discussed.
    • #cli channel – The official support channel for WP-CLI and the WordPress CLI team.
  • Good first issues – List of issues on that are limited in scope and complexity.
• WP-CLI GitHub organization – Canonical home of the WP-CLI source code.
  • WP-CLI framework repository – The source code for the WP-CLI framework that powers all of the commands.
  • WP-CLI bundle repository – The source for the WP-CLI “binary” and how it is assembled.
  • WP-CLI tests repository – The testing framework used throughout all WP-CLI repositories.

Third-party packages

Unofficial third-party packages.

Package discovery

Ways of searching for third-party packages you can use.

• Packagist.org search by WP-CLI package type – Composer packages filtered by type wp-cli-package.
• GitHub.com search for WP-CLI integrations – Heavily pre-filtered search for repositories that use WP_CLI::add_command().

Notable packages

Third-party packages that are commonly useful.

• Yoast/wp-cli-faker – Generate fake WordPress and WooCommerce content for testing purposes.
• aaemnnosttv/wp-cli-login-command – Login to WordPress with secure passwordless magic links.
• schlessera/wp-cli-psysh – Replace WP-CLI shell standard REPL with PsySH.
• php-stubs/wp-cli-stubs – WP-CLI function and class declaration stubs for static analysis.

Tutorials & guides

Websites, ebooks, PDFs, talks and slide shows about how to make the most out of WP-CLI.

• An Introduction to WP-CLI – Introductory article that introduces the main concepts and some popular use cases of WP-CLI.
• Controlling WordPress through the Command Line – Introductory talk that covers the very basics of the command line for people who never used the console before.
• WP Bullet WP-CLI Guides – Snippet-based guides that solve specific use cases.
• Siteground Webinar: Learn How WP-CLI Can Make Your Life Easier – Practical examples on how you can improve your workflows with WP-CLI.