WordPress DevOps

 

Don’t you think that the “famous” 5-minute WordPress installation is still taking too much of your time? If you are interested in quicker and smarter ways to automatically install and manage WordPress, together with a given set of plugins and your themes of choice, please read on.

Some years ago, you could have given WordPress quick install a try, but that is now an abandoned project, probably not supporting the latest version of WordPress.

The coolest way of doing WordPress today is via the WP-CLI and some scripting in your favorite language.

 

Let’s download WP-CLI with:

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

then verify the Phar file is working:

To use WP-CLI from the command line by typing wp, we need to make the .phar file executable and move it to somewhere in our PATH. For example:

Final installation check:

wp --info

For getting help, let’s type:

wp help

 

Let’s download and install a WordPress site in seconds:

mkdir mywpfolder; cd mywpdfolder

# Download WordPress core
$ wp core download --locale=it_IT
Downloading WordPress 5.3 (it_IT)... md5 hash verified: c5366d05b521831dd0b29dfc386e56a5
Success: WordPress downloaded.

# DB configuration
# (define a database, username and password to be used in the next step), e.g. with MySQL:
mysql -u user -p
create database wordpress;
grant all on wordpress.* to 'user' identified by 'password';
quit;

# Create a wp-config.php file
wp core config --dbname=wordpress --dbuser=user --dbpass=password --dbhost=localhost --dbprefix=wp_

# Install WordPress
$ wp core install --url=example.com --title=Example --admin_user=supervisor --admin_password=strongpassword --admin_email=info@example.com
Success: WordPress installed successfully.

# Display the WordPress version
$ wp core version
5.3


 

If you have many WordPress installation on your server, there’s a ‘find’ command that comes in handy.  Let’s install the corresponding package as follows:

wp package install wp-cli/find-command

Now we are ready to find all the WordPress installations on the server, starting from a given path:

 

Let’s update a WordPress installation in a breeze:

sudo -u myuser -i wp core update --path=path/to/my/wordpress/installation
sudo -u myuser -i wp core update-db --path=path/to/my/wordpress/installation


 

What about listing and updating the plugins too?

sudo -u myuser -i wp plugin list
sudo -u myuser -i wp plugin update --all

 

Fancy clearing cache now?

sudo -u myuser -i wp cache flush --path=path/to/my/wordpress/installation

 

Enjoy Dev-Ops for WordPress!