Sarathlal N

Install WP-CLI

Prerequisite

  1. UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Cygwin)
  2. PHP 5.6 or later
  3. WordPress 3.7 or later.

Download wp-cli.phar.

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

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

chmod +x wp-cli.phar
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

We can confirm that WP-CLI was installed correctly with below command.

wp --info

https://wp-cli.org/

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