WP-CLI – Nick Davis

Use –precise if wp search-replace does not get all matches

I just discovered that you can add the --precise flag when using wp search-replace with WP-CLI.

I’ve never needed to use this before, so I wouldn’t suggest using it by default, but I had a site that was stubbornly refusing to replace all instances of a test domain after switching to the production domain and this solved it.
Reset WordPress permalinks via WP-CLI

wp rewrite flush

To save having you to do it via Settings > Permalinks…

Source: https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/rewrite/
Change post type for WordPress posts with WP-CLI
In this example, I’m modifying all the posts with a legacy custom post type that I want to get rid of to use the Yoast SEO: Local custom post type for locations instead.
```
wp post update $(wp post list --post_type=locations --format=ids) --post_type=wpseo_locations
```
Run WP-CLI commands on Pagely without errors from PHP version
I hit an issue on Pagely where I was running a WP-CLI command – via SSH – but I kept hitting a PHP fatal error.

When I looked into the error it was because the site was running PHP 7.4, but WP-CLI on Pagely was running PHP 7.3 so my code was breaking on the command line.

Turns out all you need to do is use pagely-wp instead of wp (thanks Kevin!) and the command will run at the correct version of PHP.

So instead of:
```
wp search-replace staging.website.com www.website.com
```
Do:
```
pagely-wp search-replace staging.website.com www.website.com
```
Install WordPress at specific version with wp-cli-valet
```
wp valet new sitename --version=5.8.2
```

Tag: WP-CLI

Use –precise if wp search-replace does not get all matches

Reset WordPress permalinks via WP-CLI

Change post type for WordPress posts with WP-CLI

Run WP-CLI commands on Pagely without errors from PHP version

Install WordPress at specific version with wp-cli-valet