Creates a child theme folder with functions.php and style.css files.
- <slug>
- The slug for the new child theme.
- --parent_theme=<slug>
- What to put in the ‘Template:’ header in ‘style.css’.
- [--theme_name=<title>]
- What to put in the ‘Theme Name:’ header in ‘style.css’.
- [--author=<full-name>]
- What to put in the ‘Author:’ header in ‘style.css’.
- [--author_uri=<uri>]
- What to put in the ‘Author URI:’ header in ‘style.css’.
- [--theme_uri=<uri>]
- What to put in the ‘Theme URI:’ header in ‘style.css’.
- [--activate]
- Activate the newly created child theme.
- [--enable-network]
- Enable the newly created child theme for the entire network.
- [--force]
- Overwrite files that already exist.
# Generate a 'sample-theme' child theme based on TwentySixteen
$ wp scaffold child-theme sample-theme --parent_theme=twentysixteen
Success: Created '/var/www/example.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/sample-theme'.
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. |
