OPTIONS
- <id>…
- One or more IDs of posts to delete.
- [–force]
- Skip the trash bin.
- [–defer-term-counting]
- Recalculate term count in batch, for a performance boost.
EXAMPLES
Delete and move to trash.
wp post delete 123 Success: Deleted post 123.
Delete permanently without moving into trash.
wp post delete 123 --force Success: Trashed post 1164.
Delete all posts
wp post list --field=ID | xargs -n1 -I % wp post delete %
Delete all posts without moving into trash.
wp post list --field=ID | xargs -n1 -I % wp post delete % --force
Delete all custom post types
wp post list --field=ID --post-type="my-post-type" | xargs -n1 -I % wp post delete %
Delete all custom post types without moving into trash.
wp post list --field=ID --post-type="my-post-type" | xargs -n1 -I % wp post delete % --force
GLOBAL PARAMETERS
These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.
Argument | Description |
---|---|
--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”, “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-packages | Skip loading all installed packages. |
--require=<path> | Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once). |
--[no-]color | Whether 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. |
--quiet | Suppress informational messages. |