wp user list

Lists users.

Display WordPress users based on all arguments supported by WP_User_Query().

Options

[--role=<role>]
Only display users with a certain role.
[--<field>=<value>]
Control output by one or more arguments of WP_User_Query().
[--network]
List all users in the network for multisite.
[--field=<field>]
Prints the value of a single field for each user.
[--fields=<fields>]
Limit the output to specific object fields.
[--format=<format>]
Render output in a particular format.

default: table
options:
– table
– csv
– ids
– json
– count
– yaml

Available Fields

These fields will be displayed by default for each user:
  • ID
  • user_login
  • display_name
  • user_email
  • user_registered
  • roles
These fields are optionally available:
  • user_pass
  • user_nicename
  • user_url
  • user_activation_key
  • user_status
  • spam
  • deleted
  • caps
  • cap_key
  • allcaps
  • filter
  • url

Examples

# List user IDs
$ wp user list --field=ID
1

# List users with administrator role
$ wp user list --role=administrator --format=csv
ID,user_login,display_name,user_email,user_registered,roles
1,supervisor,supervisor,supervisor@gmail.com,"2016-06-03 04:37:00",administrator

# List users with only given fields
$ wp user list --fields=display_name,user_email --format=json
[{"display_name":"supervisor","user_email":"supervisor@gmail.com"}]

# List users ordered by the 'last_activity' meta value.
$ wp user list --meta_key=last_activity --orderby=meta_value_num

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.