WP-CLI is a command-line tool that allows you to manage WordPress installations from the command line. It's a powerful tool that can be used to perform a variety of tasks, such as installing and updating plugins, themes, and core WordPress files.

We utilize it for:

• Installing and updating plugins
• Installing and updating themes
• Installing and updating core WordPress files
• Deployment processes
• Managing database
• Managing users
• Managing roles
• Managing permissions
• Managing settings
• Managing content
• Importing/Exporting database
• etc.

Make sure you are familiar with all of the availabilities of the WP-CLI tool as it will help you be more productive.

Local

WP-CLI can be installed on your local machine in a couple of ways, here are some:

• by following the instructions in the WP-CLI documentation
• via Homebrew with brew install wp-cli command

Remote

In all of our projects, WP-CLI is already installed by our DevOps team. If it is not, you can ask your DevOps engineer to install it for you.

Manual

If you need to install WP-CLI manually for a simple action you can download the wp-cli.phar file from the WP-CLI GitHub repository and run on the server. You can find more information about the manual installation in the WP-CLI documentation.