Category: Wordpress

How to run a shell command as another user without Shell Access enabling

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It needs if you don't want to waste time to enable Shell Access for specific user to run some command from his shell

sudo -H -u someuser bash -c 'uptime'

Example of using:

cd ~someuser/www
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
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How to install WP-CLI

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WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser

cd
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
chmod 755 wp-cli.phar
mv wp-cli.phar wp
mkdir wp_cli
mv wp wp_cli
echo "alias wp='~/wp_cli/wp'" >> ~/.bashrc
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How to upgrade your WordPress to the latest version via command line

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It may fix various problems with your WordPress

First of all backup your files and database

Enter your www/ folder

cd /home/USER/public_html

Download/extract and replace files using latest WordPress version from an original source

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip

unzip latest.zip

rsync -avz wordpress/* ./
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How to disable/enable all wordpress plugin via mysql/shell command lines

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In order to view active plugins run:

mysql
use database;
SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = "active_plugins";

From shell command line

mysql --host=localhost --user=database_user --password=dbpassword database -e 'SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = "active_plugins";'

Save active plugins to file

mysql --host=localhost --user=database_user --password=dbpassword database -e 'SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = "active_plugins";' |grep active_plugins |awk '{print $3}' > active_plugins.txt
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