It’s been less than two months since the last major release of WP-CLI, and already we have a lot of goodies to show you.

Global config files

If you create a ~/.wp-cli/config.yml file, WP-CLI will read config values from that file, regardless of where you’re running it from.

You can change the path to the global config file by setting the WP_CLI_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. That means that you can also disable the global config, like so:

WP_CLI_CONFIG_PATH=/dev/null wp core install ...

The old --config global parameter is now deprecated.

Setting command parameter values in config files

What’s more, you can now define per-command config values. For example, if my config file looks like this:

core install:
	admin_user: billy
	admin_email: billy@example.com

… when I run wp core install, I don’t have to pass the --admin_user and --admin_email parameters again; they are read from the config file.

Improved plugin test templates

We have simplified the process of setting up and running plugin tests locally.

It fetches the test library from the new develop.svn.wordpress.org repository.

Also, the Travis build no longer depends on the GitHub mirror of WordPress.

Improved downloads

Firstly, all HTTPS requests now use the more up-to-date SSL CA bundle from the Requests library, which should fix most certificate warnings.

Secondly, the timeout for wp core download has been increased to 10 minutes.

Thirdly, to extract the tarball, wp core download now uses the PharData class, instead of the tar binary. This should make it work in more environments, such as MinGW.

Finally, plugin and theme downloads are now cached. So, the first time you run wp plugin install bbpress, it will save the zip locally. The second time you run it, it won’t download the zip again.

Other improvements

Additions:

  • added --all flag to wp plugin deactivate
  • added wp comment-meta command
  • added filtering to wp plugin list and wp theme list
  • added --match and --source parameters to wp rewrite list
  • added --post_content flag to wp post generate
  • added --skip-tests flag to wp scaffold plugin
  • added --skip=image_resize to wp import

Bug fixes:

  • wp core config no longer escapes HTML characters in passwords
  • wp user create no longer ignores the --role parameter
  • wp rewrite structure correctly flushes rewrite rules
  • wp theme delete now refuses to delete the active theme
  • wp scaffold post-type now generates correct capitalization
  • wp plugin activate now works correctly for network-only plugins
  • wp shell now works correctly even if a plugin starts output buffering
  • wp core install --prompt now correctly handles the --url parameter

Misc:

  • removed wp core init-tests command (context)
  • renamed WP_CLI::add_action() to WP_CLI::add_hook() (context)

You can browse the full list of resolved issues on GitHub.

Contributors to this release: BoiteAWeb, ctayloroomphinc, danielbachhuber, dd32, francescolaffi, jonathanbardo, Kevinlearynet, leewillis77, nickdaugherty, QWp6t, rodrigoprimo, ryanduff, scribu, simonwheatley, tiagohillebrandt, tlovett1, wojsmol.