fstrube / wordpress-console

An interactive PHP console for WordPress.

WordPress Console

This script will provide an interactive console similar to rails console if you're familiar with Ruby on Rails.

In order to use this, you need to have php-cli installed with readline support.

Requirements

PHP >= 4.2.3 w/ libreadline support

Installation

1. Download the wp-console file into your WordPress root.
2. Make the wp-console script executable with chmod +x wp-console.

Usage

To run the console, simply execute ./wp-console from the root of your WordPress project. This will give you an interactive prompt where you can experiment with WordPress code:

franklin@server:/var/www$ ./wp-console
Interactive shell

php > $post = get_post(1);
php > print_r($post);
WP_Post Object
(
    [ID] => 1
    [post_author] => 1
    [post_date] => 2013-03-26 03:00:48
    [post_date_gmt] => 2013-03-26 03:00:48
    [post_content] => Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
    [post_title] => Hello world!
    [post_excerpt] => 
    [post_status] => trash
    [comment_status] => open
    [ping_status] => open
    [post_password] => 
    [post_name] => hello-world
    [to_ping] => 
    [pinged] => 
    [post_modified] => 2013-03-26 04:26:03
    [post_modified_gmt] => 2013-03-26 04:26:03
    [post_content_filtered] => 
    [post_parent] => 0
    [guid] => http://franklinstrube.local/wordpress/?p=1
    [menu_order] => 0
    [post_type] => post
    [post_mime_type] => 
    [comment_count] => 1
    [filter] => raw
)