2015/04/21

Scripted WordPress Upgrades

This command line interface for administering WordPress is called wp-cli. It’s pretty great.

I wrote a script to run from cron for updating a bunch of different WP installs in the same directory.

#!/bin/sh

base='/serve/www'
cd "$base" || { echo 'web base dir - could not change dir.' && exit 1; }
wpcli=`which wp`
[ -x "$wpcli" ] || { echo 'wp-cli not found.' && exit 2; }

for i in `/bin/ls | grep -v wordpress`; do
  if [ -f "$i"/wp-includes/version.php ]; then
    cd "$base/$i"
    $wpcli core update
    $wpcli theme update --all
    $wpcli plugin update --all
    cd -
  fi
done

#!/bin/sh

base='/serve/www'

cd "$base" || { echo 'web base dir - could not change dir.' && exit 1; }

wpcli=`which wp`

[ -x "$wpcli" ] || { echo 'wp-cli not found.' && exit 2; }

for i in `/bin/ls | grep -v wordpress`; do

if [ -f "$i"/wp-includes/version.php ]; then

cd "$base/$i"

$wpcli core update

$wpcli theme update --all

$wpcli plugin update --all

cd -

done

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Tags:command line, sysadmin, WordPress

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Charlie Herron

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