wp post update

Updates one or more existing posts.

OPTIONS

<id>...

One or more IDs of posts to update.

[--post_author=<post_author>]

The ID of the user who added the post. Default is the current user ID.

[--post_date=<post_date>]

The date of the post. Default is the current time.

[--post_date_gmt=<post_date_gmt>]

The date of the post in the GMT timezone. Default is the value of $post_date.

[--post_content=<post_content>]

The post content. Default empty.

[--post_content_filtered=<post_content_filtered>]

The filtered post content. Default empty.

[--post_title=<post_title>]

The post title. Default empty.

[--post_excerpt=<post_excerpt>]

The post excerpt. Default empty.

[--post_status=<post_status>]

The post status. Default 'draft'.

[--post_type=<post_type>]

The post type. Default 'post'.

[--comment_status=<comment_status>]

Whether the post can accept comments. Accepts 'open' or 'closed'. Default is the value of 'default_comment_status' option.

[--ping_status=<ping_status>]

Whether the post can accept pings. Accepts 'open' or 'closed'. Default is the value of 'default_ping_status' option.

[--post_password=<post_password>]

The password to access the post. Default empty.

[--post_name=<post_name>]

The post name. Default is the sanitized post title when creating a new post.

[--to_ping=<to_ping>]

Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs to ping. Default empty.

[--pinged=<pinged>]

Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs that have been pinged. Default empty.

[--post_modified=<post_modified>]

The date when the post was last modified. Default is the current time.

[--post_modified_gmt=<post_modified_gmt>]

The date when the post was last modified in the GMT timezone. Default is the current time.

[--post_parent=<post_parent>]

Set this for the post it belongs to, if any. Default 0.

[--menu_order=<menu_order>]

The order the post should be displayed in. Default 0.

[--post_mime_type=<post_mime_type>]

The mime type of the post. Default empty.

[--guid=<guid>]

Global Unique ID for referencing the post. Default empty.

[--post_category=<post_category>]

Array of category names, slugs, or IDs. Defaults to value of the 'default_category' option.

[--tags_input=<tags_input>]

Array of tag names, slugs, or IDs. Default empty.

[--tax_input=<tax_input>]

Array of taxonomy terms keyed by their taxonomy name. Default empty.

[--meta_input=<meta_input>]

Array in JSON format of post meta values keyed by their post meta key. Default empty.

[<file>]

Read post content from <file>. If this value is present, the --post_content argument will be ignored.

Passing - as the filename will cause post content to be read from STDIN.

--<field>=<value>

One or more fields to update. See wp_insert_post().

[--defer-term-counting]

Recalculate term count in batch, for a performance boost.

EXAMPLES

$ wp post update 123 --post_name=something --post_status=draft
Success: Updated post 123.

# Update a post with multiple meta values.
$ wp post update 123 --meta_input='{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}'
Success: Updated post 123.

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

--path=<path> Path to the WordPress files.

--url=<url> Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.

--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host|container>[:<port>][<path>] Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of "docker", "docker-compose", "vagrant").

--http=<http> Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.

--user=<id|login|email> Set the WordPress user.

--skip-plugins[=<plugins>] Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.

--skip-themes[=<themes>] Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.

--skip-packages Skip loading all installed packages.

--require=<path> Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).

--[no-]color Whether to colorize the output.

--debug[=<group>] Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.

--prompt[=<assoc>] Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.

--quiet Suppress informational messages.