Draft. Not settled yet, and not binding.

WP-CLI

Running WP-CLI commands safely against installations we do not own

WP-CLI is a PHP-based command line interface for interacting with WordPress installations.

Running WP-CLI commands

• Always use --dry-run to test operations that affect databases.
• Consider using --prompt to see all available arguments.
• Use wp help [command] for command-specific documentation.

Custom WP-CLI commands

This section was never written. The source document in how-we-work ended with this heading and nothing under it, so it is carried here as a draft rather than presented as a settled standard. See what still needs writing.

Related

• WordPress PHP

  PHPCS setup, namespacing, bootstrapping and the defensive habits we expect in PHP

• Internationalization

  Making every user-facing string translatable, and the files that carry the translations