wp user create

Creates a new user.

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Options

<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.

Examples

# Create user
$ wp user create bob bob@example.com --role=author
Success: Created user 3.
Password: k9**&amp;I4vNH(&amp;

# Create user without showing password upon success
$ wp user create ann ann@example.com --porcelain
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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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