- <user>…
- one or more user logins or IDs.
- [--skip-email]
- Don’t send an email notification to the affected user(s).
- [--show-password]
- Show the new password(s).
- [--porcelain]
- Output only the new password(s).
# Reset the password for two users and send them the change email.
$ wp user reset-password admin editor
Reset password for admin.
Reset password for editor.
Success: Passwords reset for 2 users.
# Reset the password for one user, displaying only the new password, and not sending the change email.
$ wp user reset-password admin --skip-email --porcelain
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# Reset password for all users.
$ wp user reset-password $(wp user list --format=ids)
Reset password for admin
Reset password for editor
Reset password for subscriber
Success: Passwords reset for 3 users.
# Reset password for all users with a particular role.
$ wp user reset-password $(wp user list --format=ids --role=administrator)
Reset password for admin
Success: Password reset for 1 user.
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. |
