How to Install and Update WordPress from the Command-Line

What you will need

• Bash
• Git
• PHP

How to structure the filesystem

• .gitignore
• bin/
  • install
  • certs
  • update
  • backup
• public/
• backups/
• wp-cli.yml
• wp-config.php

Installing wp cli

Downloading and configuring the latest WordPress

Updating the core, plugins and themes

#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -o pipefail

wp=/usr/local/bin/wp
wp_user=www-data

sudo -u "$wp_user" -- "$wp" core update
sudo -u "$wp_user" -- "$wp" core update-db
sudo -u "$wp_user" -- "$wp" plugin update --all
sudo -u "$wp_user" -- "$wp" theme update --all

Configuring the web server