wp plugin verify-checksums

Verifies plugin files against WordPress.org’s checksums.

In this article

Options

[<plugin>…]
One or more plugins to verify.
[--all]
If set, all plugins will be verified.
[--strict]
If set, even “soft changes” like readme.txt changes will trigger checksum errors.
[--version=<version>]
Verify checksums against a specific plugin version.
[--format=<format>]
Render output in a specific format. -– default: table options: – table – json – csv – yaml – count -–
[--insecure]
Retry downloads without certificate validation if TLS handshake fails. Note: This makes the request vulnerable to a MITM attack.
[--exclude=<name>]
Comma separated list of plugin names that should be excluded from verifying.

Examples

# Verify the checksums of all installed plugins
$ wp plugin verify-checksums --all
Success: Verified 8 of 8 plugins.

# Verify the checksums of a single plugin, Akismet in this case
$ wp plugin verify-checksums akismet
Success: Verified 1 of 1 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.

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