Global Options

Global options (parameters, arguments) can be applied to any command. These parameters behave the same for any command. They affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress in General.

Read more about global parameters.

List of global options

--path={path}
Path to the WordPress files.
--url={url}
Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
--ssh=[{scheme}:][{user}@]{host|container}[:{port}][{path}]
Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docker”, “docker-compose”, “vagrant”).
--http={http}
Perform operation against a remote WordPress install over HTTP.
--user={id|login|email}
Set the WordPress user.
--skip-plugins[={plugins}]
Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
--skip-themes[={themes}]
Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--skip-packages
Skip loading all installed packages.
--require={path}
Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--[no-]color
Whether to colorize the output.
--debug[={group}]
Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[={assoc}]
Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet
Suppress informational messages.
--context

allows users to select the WordPress context in which WP-CLI is supposed to execute its command(s).

  • cli: The context which has been the default before introduction of this flag. This is something in-between a frontend and an admin request, to get around some of the quirks of WordPress when running on the console.

  • admin: A context that simulates running a command as if it would be executed in the administration backend. This is meant to be used to get around issues with plugins that limit functionality behind an is_admin() check.

  • auto: Switches between cli and admin depending on which command is being used. For this initial release, all wp plugin * and wp theme * commands will use admin, while all other commands will use cli.

  • frontend: [WIP] This does nothing yet.

Where

  • [] - you can specify or you can omit.
  • {} - the values in braces are the variable values of the parameter.
  • | - this symbol indicates that you can specify either one or the other value.

Examples

Let's get all the Metafields of post 18 for the network site woman.example.com:

wp post meta list 18 --url=woman.example.com

Run the command from any directory, you need to specify WP path in this case (where the file wp-settings.php is located):

wp post meta list 1 --path=/home/kama/sites/wp-kama.dev/public_html/core/

Execute the PHP file before running the command:

wp post meta list 1 --require=/path/to/file.php