- <user-login>
- The login of the user to create.
- <user-email>
- The email address of the user to create.
- [--role=<role>]
- The role of the user to create. Default: default role. Possible values include ‘administrator’, ‘editor’, ‘author’, ‘contributor’, ‘subscriber’.
- [--user_pass=<password>]
- The user password. Default: randomly generated.
- [--user_registered=<yyyy-mm-dd-hh-ii-ss>]
- The date the user registered. Default: current date.
- [--display_name=<name>]
- The display name.
- [--user_nicename=<nice_name>]
- A string that contains a URL-friendly name for the user. The default is the user’s username.
- [--user_url=<url>]
- A string containing the user’s URL for the user’s web site.
- [--nickname=<nickname>]
- The user’s nickname, defaults to the user’s username.
- [--first_name=<first_name>]
- The user’s first name.
- [--last_name=<last_name>]
- The user’s last name.
- [--description=<description>]
- A string containing content about the user.
- [--rich_editing=<rich_editing>]
- A string for whether to enable the rich editor or not. False if not empty.
- [--send-email]
- Send an email to the user with their new account details.
- [--porcelain]
- Output just the new user id.
# Create user
$ wp user create bob bob@example.com --role=author
Success: Created user 3.
Password: k9**&I4vNH(&
# Create user without showing password upon success
$ wp user create ann ann@example.com --porcelain
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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. |