Moving WordPress from place to place using WP-CLI

Copy_WordPress_With_CLI.md

First Place

• Go inside your wordpress directory and do:
  1. zip -r wp-content.zip wp-content/
  2. wp db export wp.sql

Move your backups

cp wp.sql wp-content.zip second

Second Place

• Note: Make sure you have installed wordpress and add your config if not follow this:

  1. wp core download
  2. wp core config --dbname=YOUR_DATABASE_NAME --dbuser=YOUR_DATABASE_USER --dbpass=YOUR_DATABASE_PASSWORD

• Go inside your wordpress directory and do:

  1. wp-cli --quiet db import wp.sql
  2. wp-cli search-replace 'https://first.com' 'https://second.com'
  3. unzip -o wp-content.zip
  4. rm -rf wp.sql wp-content.zip
  5. if you want to change the admin password wp-cli user update admin --user_pass="new_password"

enjoy 👋