- <slug>
- The internal name of the post type.
- [--label=<label>]
- The text used to translate the update messages.
- [--textdomain=<textdomain>]
- The textdomain to use for the labels.
- [--dashicon=<dashicon>]
- The dashicon to use in the menu.
- [--theme]
- Create a file in the active theme directory, instead of sending to STDOUT. Specify a theme with
--theme=<theme> to have the file placed in that theme.
- [--plugin=<plugin>]
- Create a file in the given plugin’s directory, instead of sending to STDOUT.
- [--raw]
- Just generate the
register_post_type() call and nothing else.
- [--force]
- Overwrite files that already exist.
# Generate a 'movie' post type for the 'simple-life' theme
$ wp scaffold post-type movie --label=Movie --theme=simple-life
Success: Created '/var/www/example.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/simple-life/post-types/movie.php'.
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. |
