Provides a command line interface to the WordPress Importer plugin, for performing data migrations.
Use define( 'IMPORT_DEBUG', true ); for more verbosity during importing.
See the argument syntax reference for a detailed explanation of the syntax conventions used.
<file>…
Path to one or more valid WXR files for importing. Directories are also accepted.
--authors=<authors>
How the author mapping should be handled. Options are ‘create’, ‘mapping.csv’, or ‘skip’. The first will create any non-existent users from the WXR file. The second will read author mapping associations from a CSV, or create a CSV for editing if the file path doesn’t exist. The CSV requires two columns, and a header row like “old_user_login,new_user_login”. The last option will skip any author mapping.
[--skip=<data-type>]
Skip importing specific data. Supported options are: ‘attachment’ and ‘image_resize’ (skip time-consuming thumbnail generation).
[--rewrite_urls]
Change all imported URLs that currently link to the previous site so that they now link to this site Requires WordPress Importer version 0.9.1 or newer.
Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docker”, “docker-compose”, “docker-compose-run”, “vagrant”).
--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.
Command documentation is regenerated at every release. To add or update an example, please submit a pull request against the corresponding part of the codebase.
