Written by Admin on 2025-05-06

How to Download WordPress Command Line Interface

If you're a WordPress user and want to increase your productivity, WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI) is one of the best tools available out there. It empowers users to interact with WordPress as well as to manage and develop their sites from a terminal or command prompt.

In this article, we'll provide you with the step-by-step instructions on how to download the WP-CLI on your system quickly.

Prerequisites

Before getting started, ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

• PHP needs to be installed on your system. You can check this by running the "PHP -v" command on your terminal.
• You also need a MySQL or MariaDB database installed on your server.

If you have met these requirements, move onto the steps below.

Step 1 – Downloading WP-CLI

To download WP-CLI, navigate to the official WP-CLI GitHub repository - https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli.

Alternatively, you can download the latest version of the WP-CLI by running this command on your terminal.

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar

This command will download the latest WP-CLI version on your system.

Step 2 – Making WP-CLI Executable

Now that you have downloaded the WP-CLI, it's time to give it executable status. You can do this by running the following command:

chmod +x wp-cli.phar

This command will give executable permission to the WP-CLI file, and you're ready to use it.

Step 3 – Moving WP-CLI to User-Based Local Bin Directory

If you want WP-CLI available system-wide for any user, follow these steps:

sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

This command will move the WP-CLI into the /usr/local/bin/ directory and rename it to wp so that it can be easily executed from the command line.

Step 4 – Testing WP-CLI

To test if WP-CLI is working fine, run the following command on your terminal:

wp --info

This command should result in the WP-CLI version you've just installed.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully downloaded WP-CLI. Now you can use the power of WP-CLI to increase your productivity, and you can manage your WordPress site more efficiently on the command line.