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Force re-downloading plugins and themes with WP-CLI

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Recently I found myself needing to force download all plugins and themes in a WordPress installation. Now, the old way would be to download them, upload them via SFTP. Very laborious, no fun.

Enter the fun way: WP-CLI. If you’re unfamiliar with WP-CLI, it’s the command line tool for WordPress. And as all sites on Servebolt have the wp command available, this was super easy to do with just two commands:

Force download all plugins:

wp plugin install $(wp plugin list --field=name) --force

Force download all themes:

wp theme install $(wp theme list --field=name) --force
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  10. Ramon Fincken Avatar
    Ramon Fincken

    Perhaps also this first to cleanup a bit?

    inactive_plugins=wp-cli plugin list --status=inactive --field=name

    echo "*** Removing inactive plugins: "
    echo "$inactive_plugins"
    wp-cli plugin delete $inactive_plugins

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      Remkus

      Thanks, Ramon. Those are great additions, yes. Thanks for sharing!

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