Presentation I did for Fresno Meetup Group 12/20

1. Introduction To The WP-CLI
The why, the what and the how

2. Pantheon.io
Agency and Community Success Manager At
Pantheon Since 2014
dwayne@pantheon.io
mcdwayne.com
Some things I enjoy, aside from tech:
● Improv
● Comic books
● Karaoke!!!
Hi, I’m Dwayne

3. Elastic Hosting
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Web Development
Tools for Teams
● WordPress Optimized Hosting
● Advanced Caching
● Automated DevOps
● Highly Secure
● Dev, Test, and Live
● Cloud Environments
● Permissions & Security
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4. Pantheon.io
Yes, cable cars are right outside

7. ● Do you find yourself doing
the same tasks over and
over in your WordPress
projects?
● Is there a particular way you
set up WordPress for each
new project?
● Is there a common problem
you find yourself fixing for
clients over and over?
https://www.godaddy.com/garage/webpro/wordpress/how-to-use-wp-cli/

8. Let the robots do the work!

9. Let me show you an example
● Install WP-CLI
● Create wp-config.php
● Download WP
● Install WP
● Make some dummy posts https://c9.io/

11. Before the GUI

12. There was (is) the terminal

13. List of commands = script

14. WordPress Command Line
Interface

15. Created and maintained by these folks

16. http://wp-cli.org/

18. Locally or on server

19. Things you will need:
UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD)
SSH Access
PHP 5.3.29 or later

20. How you install it from the command line:
Download it:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-
pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
Set permissions:
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
Move it somewhere useful:
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

21. Did it work?
Typing
$ wp
in the terminal
should produce this

22. The hard part is over

24. ● Download and Install Core
● Create wp-config.php
● Search-Replace
● Posts
● Users
● Themes
● Plugins
● Widgets
● Menu

25. Structure of commands
wp command subcommand --flags

26. DEMO TIME
https://github.com/1dwaynemcdaniel/Public
Docs/blob/master/WP-CLI-script.sh

27. http://wp-cli.org/docs/tools/
http://wp-cli.org/docs/commands-cookbook/

28. WP-CLI Within other CLIs

29. QUESTION TIME

30. Pantheon.io
Agency and Community Success Manager At
Pantheon Since 2014
San Francisco Based Improv Actor And
Producer Since Beginning of 2010
dwayne@pantheon.io @mcdwayne on Twitter
Blog
Some things I enjoy, aside from tech and improv:
● Comic books
● Karaoke!!!
Thanks, again I’m Dwayne

31. Thanks