wp plugin delete

Deletes plugin files without deactivating or uninstalling.

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Options

[<plugin>…]
One or more plugins to delete.
[--all]
If set, all plugins will be deleted.
[--exclude=<name>]
Comma separated list of plugin slugs to be excluded from deletion.

Examples

# Delete plugin
$ wp plugin delete hello
Deleted 'hello' plugin.
Success: Deleted 1 of 1 plugins.

# Delete inactive plugins
$ wp plugin delete $(wp plugin list --status=inactive --field=name)
Deleted 'tinymce-templates' plugin.
Success: Deleted 1 of 1 plugins.

# Delete all plugins excluding specified ones
$ wp plugin delete --all --exclude=hello-dolly,jetpack
Deleted 'akismet' plugin.
Deleted 'tinymce-templates' plugin.
Success: Deleted 2 of 2 plugins.

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.