User

User Create

wp user create

Creates a new user.

OPTIONS

<user-login> : The login of the user to create.

<user-email> : The email address of the user to create.

[--role=<role>] : The role of the user to create. Default: default role. Possible values include 'administrator', 'editor', 'author', 'contributor', 'subscriber'.

[--user_pass=<password>] : The user password. Default: randomly generated.

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

[--display_name=<name>] : The display name.

[--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.

[--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.

[--send-email] : Send an email to the user with their new account details.

[--porcelain] : Output just the new user id.

EXAMPLES

# Create user
$ wp user create bob [email protected] --role=author
Success: Created user 3.
Password: k9**&amp;I4vNH(&amp;
# Create user without showing password upon success
$ wp user create ann [email protected] --porcelain
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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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