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wp core is-installed

Checks if WordPress is installed.

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Determines whether WordPress is installed by checking if the standard database tables are installed. Doesn’t produce output; uses exit codes to communicate whether WordPress is installed.
[--network]
Check if this is a multisite installation.

Examples

# Bash script for checking if WordPress is not installed

if ! wp core is-installed 2>/dev/null; then
    # WP is not installed. Let's try installing it.
    wp core install
fi

# Bash script for checking if WordPress is installed, with fallback

if wp core is-installed 2>/dev/null; then
    # WP is installed. Let's do some things we should only do in a confirmed WP environment.
    wp core verify-checksums
else
    # Fallback if WP is not installed.
    echo 'Hey Friend, you are in the wrong spot. Move in to your WordPress directory and try again.'
fi

Global Parameters

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.
Argument Description
--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”, “docker-compose-run”, “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).
--exec=<php-code> Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
--context=<context> Load WordPress in a given context.
--[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.

Command documentation is regenerated at every release. To add or update an example, please submit a pull request against the corresponding part of the codebase.