Common Commands Used To Update WordPress Using WP-CLI

WP-CLI is an extremely user-friendly set of commands. It enables you to use the command line to manage any aspect of a WordPress website under wp-admin. You must first receive the SSH credentials from the manager using a terminal or a command-line tool such as Putty in order to execute WP-CLI on Managed WordPress. Next, sign in and modify the home to HTML (the location of WordPress installation). In order to use WP-CLI, you must be in this folder.

cd html

To update WordPress using WP-CLI

In order to update WordPress to the latest version, you need to run the following command.

Note:  You will have to replace the X value with the current version number or WordPress.

wp core update --version=5.0.x --force

For example, in order to update WordPress to the most current version which is 5.0.3, run the following command :

wp core update --version=5.0.3 --force

If you wish to update with the 5.1 version, then your command will be :

wp core update --version=5.1 --force

If any error occurs while running the wp core update command (like WordPress update is already in progress in the terminal), then a lock option value might be set. SO, you can delete that option value by using the following command :

wp option delete core_updater.lock

WordPress version using WP-CLI

Run following command, to verify the version of WordPress that is installed :

wp core version

Updating theme using WP-CLI

After updating WordPress, the next step is to update the default themes as well. By using the following command you can update those themes:

wp theme update twentysixteen twentyseventeen twentynineteen

In the above command, the themes updated would be Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Seventeen, and Twenty Nineteen.

Plugins updation using WP-CLI

If you have Akismet or Jetpack plugins installed, then you can update those two plugins by running either of the following commands :

wp plugin update akismet

wp plugin update jetpack

Alternatively, you can update both plugins using one following command :

wp plugin update akismet jetpack

Installing Classic Editor using WP-CLI

If your site was on an older version of WordPress (like 4.9.9) and you wish to update it to 5.0.3, but at the same time if you want to keep using the classic editor and not the new default Gutenberg block editor, then you can install and activate either the Classic Editor or Disable Gutenberg plugins.

Run the following command, to install and activate the Classic Editor plugin :

wp plugin install classic-editor --activate

Run following command, to install and activate the Disable Gutenberg plugin :

wp plugin install disable-gutenberg --activate

Using all these commands in WP-CLI will make updating WordPress, themes, and plugins simple for you. It also makes it possible to install plugins directly from the command line, saving you the trouble of updating via wp-admin.

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