Did you know you’re able to install the WordPress command line interface on your shared host—provided you’ve got SSH access? Even if you can’t move wp-cli.phar
to your /usr/local/bin/
as per the official installation instructions, you can still set up an alias
for the wp
command in .bashrc
.
Installing WP-CLI
Start off—as per the manual—by simply downloading WP-CLI.
cd
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
Verifying is done like so:
php wp-cli.phar ---info
Our next step’s to make the file executable:
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
Defining the WP Command
Now, where the manual says to move wp-cli.phar
to /usr/local/bin/
to make it available system-wide, we’ll instead add the following line to .bashrc
:
alias wp="~/wp-cli.phar"
Running multiple WordPress installs that live in subfolders of your home directory? Just cd
into them and run any wp
command!
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