wp user check-password

Checks if a user's password is valid or not.

OPTIONS

<user> : The user login, user email or user ID of the user to check credentials for.

<user_pass> : A string that contains the plain text password for the user.

[--escape-chars] : Escape password with wp_slash() to mimic the same behavior as wp-login.php.

EXAMPLES

# Check whether given credentials are valid; exit status 0 if valid, otherwise 1
$ wp user check-password admin adminpass
$ echo $?
1

# Bash script for checking whether given credentials are valid or not
if ! $(wp user check-password admin adminpass); then
 notify-send "Invalid Credentials";
fi

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

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