See the argument syntax reference for a detailed explanation of the syntax conventions used.
- <id>…
- One or more IDs of posts to update.
- [–post_author=<post_author>]
- The ID of the user who added the post. Default is the current user ID.
- [–post_date=<post_date>]
- The date of the post. Default is the current time.
- [–post_date_gmt=<post_date_gmt>]
- The date of the post in the GMT timezone. Default is the value of $post_date.
- [–post_content=<post_content>]
- The post content. Default empty.
- [–post_content_filtered=<post_content_filtered>]
- The filtered post content. Default empty.
- [–post_title=<post_title>]
- The post title. Default empty.
- [–post_excerpt=<post_excerpt>]
- The post excerpt. Default empty.
- [–post_status=<post_status>]
- The post status. Default ‘draft’.
- [–post_type=<post_type>]
- The post type. Default ‘post’.
- [–comment_status=<comment_status>]
- Whether the post can accept comments. Accepts ‘open’ or ‘closed’. Default is the value of ‘default_comment_status’ option.
- [–ping_status=<ping_status>]
- Whether the post can accept pings. Accepts ‘open’ or ‘closed’. Default is the value of ‘default_ping_status’ option.
- [–post_password=<post_password>]
- The password to access the post. Default empty.
- [–post_name=<post_name>]
- The post name. Default is the sanitized post title when creating a new post.
- [–to_ping=<to_ping>]
- Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs to ping. Default empty.
- [–pinged=<pinged>]
- Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs that have been pinged. Default empty.
- [–post_modified=<post_modified>]
- The date when the post was last modified. Default is the current time.
- [–post_modified_gmt=<post_modified_gmt>]
- The date when the post was last modified in the GMT timezone. Default is the current time.
- [–post_parent=<post_parent>]
- Set this for the post it belongs to, if any. Default 0.
- [–menu_order=<menu_order>]
- The order the post should be displayed in. Default 0.
- [–post_mime_type=<post_mime_type>]
- The mime type of the post. Default empty.
- [–guid=<guid>]
- Global Unique ID for referencing the post. Default empty.
- [–post_category=<post_category>]
- Array of category names, slugs, or IDs. Defaults to value of the ‘default_category’ option.
- [–tags_input=<tags_input>]
- Array of tag names, slugs, or IDs. Default empty.
- [–tax_input=<tax_input>]
-
Array of taxonomy terms keyed by their taxonomy name. Default empty.
Note: In WordPress core, this normally requires a user context to satisfy capability checks. WP-CLI bypasses this for convenience. See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19373
- [–meta_input=<meta_input>]
- Array in JSON format of post meta values keyed by their post meta key. Default empty.
- [–page_template=<page_template>]
- Page template to use.
- [<file>]
-
Read post content from <file>. If this value is present, the
--post_content argument will be ignored.
Passing - as the filename will cause post content to
be read from STDIN.
- –<field>=<value>
- One or more fields to update. See wp_insert_post() .
- [–defer-term-counting]
- Recalculate term count in batch, for a performance boost.
$ wp post update 123 --post_name=something --post_status=draft
Success: Updated post 123.
# Update a post with multiple meta values.
$ wp post update 123 --meta_input='{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}'
Success: Updated post 123.
# Update multiple posts at once.
$ wp post update 123 456 --post_author=789
Success: Updated post 123.
Success: Updated post 456.
# Update all posts of a given post type at once.
$ wp post update $(wp post list --post_type=page --format=ids) --post_author=123
Success: Updated post 123.
Success: Updated post 456.
These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.
| Argument |
Description |
--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”, “docker-compose-run”, “vagrant”). |
--ssh-args=<args> |
Pass additional arguments to SSH (or other tools specified by –ssh scheme). |
--http=<http> |
Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation 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). |
--exec=<php-code> |
Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once). |
--context=<context> |
Load WordPress in a given context. |
--[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. |
--alias=<name> |
Name of the alias to use. Aliases can reference local WordPress installations or remote SSH connections. Aliases are defined in the wp-cli.yml file. |
--assume-https |
Set $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] to make WordPress treat the site as HTTPS. Use when WordPress is behind an HTTPS proxy or load balancer. |
