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wp transient delete

Deletes a transient value.

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For a more complete explanation of the transient cache, including the network|site cache, please see docs for wp transient.

Options

[<key>]
Key for the transient.
[--network]
Delete the value of a network|site transient. On single site, this is is a specially-named cache key. On multisite, this is a global cache (instead of local to the site).
[--all]
Delete all transients.
[--expired]
Delete all expired transients.

Examples

# Delete transient.
$ wp transient delete sample_key
Success: Transient deleted.

# Delete expired transients.
$ wp transient delete --expired
Success: 12 expired transients deleted from the database.

# Delete expired site transients.
$ wp transient delete --expired --network
Success: 1 expired transient deleted from the database.

# Delete all transients.
$ wp transient delete --all
Success: 14 transients deleted from the database.

# Delete all site transients.
$ wp transient delete --all --network
Success: 2 transients deleted from the database.

# Delete all transients in a multisite.
$ wp transient delete --all --network && wp site list --field=url | xargs -n1 -I % wp --url=% transient delete --all

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.