Uses WordPress’ populate_roles() function to put one or more roles back into the state they were at in the a fresh WordPress install. Removes any capabilities that were added, and restores any capabilities that were removed. Custom roles are not affected.
- [<role-key>…]
- The internal name of one or more roles to reset.
- [--all]
- If set, all default roles will be reset.
# Reset three roles.
$ wp role reset administrator author contributor
Restored 1 capability to and removed 0 capabilities from 'administrator' role.
No changes necessary for 'author' role.
No changes necessary for 'contributor' role.
Success: 1 of 3 roles reset.
# Reset a custom role.
$ wp role reset custom_role
Custom role 'custom_role' not affected.
Error: Must specify a default role to reset.
# Reset all default roles.
$ wp role reset --all
Success: All default roles reset.
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. |
