Find WordPress installations on the filesystem.

Recursively iterates subdirectories of provided <path> to find and report WordPress installations. A WordPress installation is a wp-includes directory with a version.php file.

Avoids recursing some known paths (e.g. /node_modules/, hidden sys dirs) to significantly improve performance.

Indicates depth at which the WordPress installations was found, and its alias, if it has one.

$ wp find ./
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+-------+--------+
| version_path                         | version             | depth | alias  |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+-------+--------+
| /Users/wpcli/wp-includes/version.php | 4.8-alpha-39357-src | 2     | @wpcli |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+-------+--------+

AVAILABLE FIELDS #AVAILABLE FIELDS

These fields will be displayed by default for each installation:

• version_path – Path to the version.php file.
• version – WordPress version.
• depth – Directory depth at which the installation was found.
• alias – WP-CLI alias, if one is registered.

These fields are optionally available:

• wp_path – Path that can be passed to --path=<path> global parameter.
• db_host – Host name for the database.
• db_user – User name for the database.
• db_name – Database name for the database.

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INSTALLING #INSTALLING

Use the wp find command by installing the command's package:

wp package install wp-cli/find-command

Once the package is successfully installed, the wp find command will appear in the list of available commands.

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OPTIONS #OPTIONS

<path>

Path to search the subdirectories of.

[--skip-ignored-paths]

Skip the paths that are ignored by default.

[--include_ignored_paths=<paths>]

Include additional ignored paths as CSV (e.g. ‘/sys-backup/,/temp/’).

[--max_depth=<max-depth>]

Only recurse to a specified depth, inclusive.

[--fields=<fields>]

Limit the output to specific row fields.

[--field=<field>]

Output a specific field for each row.

[--format=<format>]

Render output in a specific format.
---
default: table
options:
– table
– json
– csv
– yaml
– count
---

[--verbose]

Log useful information to STDOUT.

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GLOBAL PARAMETERS #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.

Command documentation is regenerated at every release. To add or update an example, please submit a pull request against the corresponding part of the codebase.