wp post update

Updates one or more existing posts.

OPTIONS

<id>... : One or more IDs of posts to update.

[--post_author=<post_author>] : The ID of the user who added the post. Default is the current user ID.

[--post_date=<post_date>] : The date of the post. Default is the current time.

[--post_date_gmt=<post_date_gmt>] : The date of the post in the GMT timezone. Default is the value of $post_date.

[--post_content=<post_content>] : The post content. Default empty.

[--post_content_filtered=<post_content_filtered>] : The filtered post content. Default empty.

[--post_title=<post_title>] : The post title. Default empty.

[--post_excerpt=<post_excerpt>] : The post excerpt. Default empty.

[--post_status=<post_status>] : The post status. Default 'draft'.

[--post_type=<post_type>] : The post type. Default 'post'.

[--comment_status=<comment_status>] : Whether the post can accept comments. Accepts 'open' or 'closed'. Default is the value of 'default_comment_status' option.

[--ping_status=<ping_status>] : Whether the post can accept pings. Accepts 'open' or 'closed'. Default is the value of 'default_ping_status' option.

[--post_password=<post_password>] : The password to access the post. Default empty.

[--post_name=<post_name>] : The post name. Default is the sanitized post title when creating a new post.

[--to_ping=<to_ping>] : Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs to ping. Default empty.

[--pinged=<pinged>] : Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs that have been pinged. Default empty.

[--post_modified=<post_modified>] : The date when the post was last modified. Default is the current time.

[--post_modified_gmt=<post_modified_gmt>] : The date when the post was last modified in the GMT timezone. Default is the current time.

[--post_parent=<post_parent>] : Set this for the post it belongs to, if any. Default 0.

[--menu_order=<menu_order>] : The order the post should be displayed in. Default 0.

[--post_mime_type=<post_mime_type>] : The mime type of the post. Default empty.

[--guid=<guid>] : Global Unique ID for referencing the post. Default empty.

[--post_category=<post_category>] : Array of category names, slugs, or IDs. Defaults to value of the 'default_category' option.

[--tags_input=<tags_input>] : Array of tag names, slugs, or IDs. Default empty.

[--tax_input=<tax_input>] : Array of taxonomy terms keyed by their taxonomy name. Default empty.

[--meta_input=<meta_input>] : Array in JSON format of post meta values keyed by their post meta key. Default empty.

[<file>] : Read post content from <file>. If this value is present, the

`--post_content` argument will be ignored.

Passing - as the filename will cause post content to be read from STDIN.

--<field>=<value> : One or more fields to update. See wp_insert_post().

[--defer-term-counting] : Recalculate term count in batch, for a performance boost.

EXAMPLES

$ wp post update 123 --post_name=something --post_status=draft
Success: Updated post 123.

# Update a post with multiple meta values.
$ wp post update 123 --meta_input='{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}'
Success: Updated post 123.

# Update multiple posts at once.
$ wp post update 123 456 --post_author=789
Success: Updated post 123.
Success: Updated post 456.

# Update all posts of a given post type at once.
$ wp post update $(wp post list --post_type=page --format=ids) --post_author=123
Success: Updated post 123.
Success: Updated post 456.

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

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