wp site create

Creates a site in a multisite installation.

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Options

--slug=<slug>
Path for the new site. Subdomain on subdomain installs, directory on subdirectory installs.
[--title=<title>]
Title of the new site. Default: prettified slug.
[--email=<email>]
Email for admin user. User will be created if none exists. Assignment to super admin if not included.
[--network_id=<network-id>]
Network to associate new site with. Defaults to current network (typically 1).
[--private]
If set, the new site will be non-public (not indexed)
[--porcelain]
If set, only the site id will be output on success.

Examples

$ wp site create --slug=example
Success: Site 3 created: http://www.example.com/example/

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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