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WordPress: Site Administration Using WP CLI
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WordPress: Site Administration Using WP CLI

Super Charge your WordPress site administration using the WordPress Command Line Interface
Created byAndrew Eaton
Last updated 2/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Install a new WordPress site in a few seconds
  • Easily administer multiple WordPress sites using the WordPress Command Line Interface
  • Update multiple WordPress sites by typing a single command
  • Update multiple themes and plugins on multiple WordPress sites by typing a single command
  • Administer users, posts, pages and media using terminal
  • Automate WordPress updates - the core, themes and plugins - using the tools provided by the server distribution
  • Search and replace strings in the WordPress database

Course content

9 sections30 lectures3h 56m total length
  • Introduction7:54

    Course introduction - super charge your WordPress site administration skills using WPCLI. 

    WP CLI makes WordPress site administration quick and easy. What would take minutes using the dashboard, will take seconds using the WP CLI

Requirements

  • This is not a beginner’s course, you are expected to have basic terminal skills and be comfortable using the command line interface to administer server..
  • If you have never used to command line interface or terminal before, please take one of my other courses that will teach you the skills and knowledge needed to complete this course successfully.

Description

Super Charge your WordPress site administration using the WordPress Command Line Interface

The WordPress Command Line interface makes WordPress site administration quick and easy.

What would take minutes using the dashboard, will take seconds using the WP CLI.

How long does it take for you to update your WordPress site? What happens if you have 10 WP sites? How long does it take you to update the core, theme and plugins?

Using the dashboard, it would take a good few minutes per site, using WP CLI, the entire process can be completed in a few seconds and importantly, you can run the entire process unattended.

Some of the administration tasks you can complete with wp-cli are:

  • install a new WordPress site in seconds.

  • update the WP core, themes and plugins in seconds.

  • install themes and plugins.

  • activate and deactivate themes and plugins.

  • create a WordPress child-theme in seconds.

  • search-replace the sites database.

  • upload media to the site.

  • administer users, posts and pages.

With WP CLI you are able to automate the entire update process and even configure unattended updates.

This gives you more time to create content or work on your sites SEO, rather than spending hours updating various sites.

Enroll today and experience how easy WPCLI will make administering your WordPress site(s).

Who this course is for:

  • WordPress site owners who want to spend less time administering their sites and more time creating content.
  • WordPress site owners who want to automate repetitive administrative tasks.
  • WordPress site owners who want to ensure their site is hardened from the command line.