User

User Update

wp user update

Updates an existing user.

OPTIONS

<user>... : The user login, user email or user ID of the user(s) to update.

[--user_pass=<password>] : A string that contains the plain text password for the user.

[--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.

[--user_email=<email>] : A string containing the user's email address.

[--display_name=<display_name>] : A string that will be shown on the site. Defaults to user's username.

[--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.

[--user_registered=<yyyy-mm-dd-hh-ii-ss>] : The date the user registered.

[--role=<role>] : A string used to set the user's role.

--<field>=<value> : One or more fields to update. For accepted fields, see wp_update_user().

[--skip-email] : Don't send an email notification to the user.

EXAMPLES

# Update user
$ wp user update 123 --display_name=Mary --user_pass=marypass
Success: Updated user 123.

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.

ArgumentDescription
--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-packagesSkip 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-]colorWhether 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.
--quietSuppress informational messages.
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