wp option update

Updates an option value.

OPTIONS

<key> : The name of the option to update.

[<value>] : The new value. If omitted, the value is read from STDIN.

[--autoload=<autoload>] : Requires WP 4.2. Should this option be automatically loaded. --- options:

• 'yes'
• 'no' ---

[--format=<format>] : The serialization format for the value. --- default: plaintext options:

• plaintext
• json ---

EXAMPLES

# Update an option by reading from a file.
$ wp option update my_option < value.txt
Success: Updated 'my_option' option.

# Update one option on multiple sites using xargs.
$ wp site list --field=url | xargs -n1 -I {} sh -c 'wp --url={} option update my_option my_value'
Success: Updated 'my_option' option.
Success: Updated 'my_option' option.

# Update site blog name.
$ wp option update blogname "Random blog name"
Success: Updated 'blogname' option.

# Update site blog description.
$ wp option update blogdescription "Some random blog description"
Success: Updated 'blogdescription' option.

# Update admin email address.
$ wp option update admin_email [email protected]
Success: Updated 'admin_email' option.

# Set the default role.
$ wp option update default_role author
Success: Updated 'default_role' option.

# Set the timezone string.
$ wp option update timezone_string "America/New_York"
Success: Updated 'timezone_string' option.

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

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