Installing WordPress wp-cli on macOS

Installing  wp-cli on macOS – WordPress has a command line tool which operates similar to what Drush does for Drupal, it is called wp-cli and runs on macOS/Linux operating systems with a minimum of PHP 5.3.2 or later and WordPress 3.5.2 or later.

Install wp-cli on macOS

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar

Verify Install

neilg@[~]: php wp-cli.phar --info
PHP binary: /usr/bin/php
PHP version: 5.6.30
php.ini used:
WP-CLI root dir: phar://wp-cli.phar
WP-CLI vendor dir: phar://wp-cli.phar/vendor
WP_CLI phar path: /Users/neilg
WP-CLI packages dir:
WP-CLI global config:
WP-CLI project config:
WP-CLI version: 1.4.1

Make it executable

chmod +x wp-cli.phar

Move it into your Path

mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

In the above command as well as moving the file name is also changed to just wp

Test

Test it by running

wp --info

Output should be similar to

PHP binary:/usr/local/php5-5.5.5-20131020-222726/bin/php
neilg@[~]: wp --info
PHP binary:	/usr/bin/php
PHP version:	5.6.30
php.ini used:
WP-CLI root dir:	phar://wp-cli.phar
WP-CLI vendor dir:	phar://wp-cli.phar/vendor
WP_CLI phar path:	/Users/neilg
WP-CLI packages dir:
WP-CLI global config:
WP-CLI project config:
WP-CLI version:	1.4.1

Now all you have to do is operate the wp-cli commands by changing into your WordPress webroot site folders, for example to get a list of plugins for a WordPress site ‘cd’  into the webroot directory and run:

wp plugin list

Once all is working explore the available commands by running ‘wp’ to see the list of the commands and then more specifically by running wp help and the command name such as:

wp help plugin

 Using the wp-cli Completion Script

It is also a good idea to use the wp-cli bash completion script so you can tab complete commands.

Download the wp-completion.bash file and move it into your home folder and reference it in your .bash_profile by adding in the bash_profile…

source ~/wp-completion.bash

Now just type wp and tab to see available commands!

 

wp-cli comes bundled with development tools like VVV Vagrant and Valet. In VVV instance you need to SSH in to the vm and run it – by installing it also on macOS you can run it natively in the WP webroot folder without SSH’ing in.

 

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