wp scaffold block

Generates PHP, JS and CSS code for registering a Gutenberg block for a plugin or theme.

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Warning: wp scaffold block is deprecated. The official script to generate a block is the @wordpress/create-block package. See the Create a Block tutorial for a complete walk-through.

Options

<slug>
The internal name of the block.
[--title=<title>]
The display title for your block.
[--dashicon=<dashicon>]
The dashicon to make it easier to identify your block.
[--category=<category>]
The category name to help users browse and discover your block. -– default: widgets options: – common – embed – formatting – layout – widgets -–
[--theme]
Create files in the active theme directory. Specify a theme with --theme=&lt;theme&gt; to have the file placed in that theme.
[--plugin=<plugin>]
Create files in the given plugin’s directory.
[--force]
Overwrite files that already exist.

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.