wp-tools - tools to backup and upgrade WordPress installations
# simple installation from CPAN
cpanm App::WordPressTools
# view usage information
wp-tools --help
# common usage
wp-tools upgrade|backup|restore OPTIONS...
DEPRECATED - WordPress Tools has been used to upgrade millions of websites, but there are now better tools available and so we no longer maintain WordPress Tools. You can use WP-CLI directly for keeping your websites up-to-date, and look for a backup plugin to manage your backups.
WordPress Tools is a set of tools that allow you to backup, restore, and upgrade WordPress sites. The tools are especially useful for upgrading very outdated sites and for scripting the backing up and upgrading of many sites.
WordPress Tools was built to make the Internet more secure. A huge number of websites on the Internet use WordPress, because it's awesome, but a large portion of those sites do not run the latest version of WordPress which makes them susceptible to hacking. WordPress Tools can be used to get those sites up-to-date again, and that makes the whole Internet more secure.
The code has been used in production and has already upgraded over two million WordPress sites, but it has little real-world testing outside of Linux at this point so your mileage may vary if you have a different operating system. Stay tuned as we add support for more platforms, and please contribute if you feel like it.
The command-line program also has a lot of options for managing server load, so you can upgrade your sites without killing your server.
There are several ways to install WordPress Tools to your system.
Make sure you have WP-CLI and the other "DEPENDENCIES" installed.
You can install WordPress Tools using cpanm. If you have a local perl (plenv, perlbrew, etc.), you can just do:
cpanm App::WordPressTools
to install the wp-tools executable and its dependencies. The executable will be installed to your perl's bin path,
like ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/wp-tools.
If you're installing to your system perl, you can do:
cpanm --sudo App::WordPressTools
to install the wp-tools executable to a system directory, like /usr/local/bin/wp-tools (depending on your perl).
You may also choose to download wp-tools as a single executable, like this:
curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bluehost/wp-tools/solo/wp-tools
chmod +x wp-tools
This executable includes all the non-core Perl module dependencies built-in.
If you're a developer and want to hack on the source, clone the repository and pull the dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/bluehost/wp-tools.git
cd wp-tools
cpanm -n Dist::Zilla
dzil authordeps --missing |cpanm -n
dzil listdeps --author --develop --missing |cpanm -n
WordPress Tools requires these other programs and libraries in order to do its work. You probably have most of these on your system already, and the cpanm method of installing wp-tools will handle the Perl module dependencies for you.
- WP-CLI
- GNU Coreutils
- GNU Tar
- awk
- grep
- mysql (MySQL server client)
- procps
- Various Perl modules (see the distributed
cpanfilefile for a list)
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--help
Show usage information and exit.
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--force
If there are any resource limits in effect, ignore them and do the command anyway.
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--max-count=num
Delete the oldest backups, keeping the number provided (default: 5).
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--max-dproc=num
Refuse to execute if the maximum number of defunct processes on the system exceeds this number (default: 100).
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--max-load=num
Refuse to execute if the load average exceeds this number (default: 200).
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--max-size=num
Refuse to back up a site if its uncompressed size on disk exceeds this number of bytes (default: 5368709120).
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--max-run=num
Do not allow more than this number of concurrent system-wide executions of the script (default: 50).
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--min-freemem=num
Refuse to execute if free memory has dropped below this number of bytes (default: 1048576).
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--wp-cli=path
If your
wp-cliprogram has a different name thanwpor is not in your$PATH, you can specify the command to be used to call wp-cli. -
--username=name
If you run wp-tools as a root user, it will drop permissions to the specified user and
chdirto their home directory.
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upgrade
The upgrade command will upgrade your WordPress core, themes, and plugins to the latest version available. It takes a full backup prior to the update. After the update, wp-tools will do a quick check to try to determine that nothing broke on your site. If any failures are detected, wp-tools will automatically restore to the backup taken prior to update.
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backup
The backup command will create a full backup, including database, of your WordPress installation as long as it is under the --max-size limit (pre-compression).
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restore
The restore command will restore a WordPress installation from a backup taken using the backup command.
# upgrade a site
wp-tools upgrade --path=/absolute/path/to/public_html/myblog \
--backupdir=/absolute/path/to/myblog_backups
# upgrade only plugins and themes
wp-tools upgrade --path=/absolute/path/to/public_html/myblog \
--backupdir=/absolute/path/to/myblog_backups \
--components=plugin,theme
# backup a site
wp-tools backup --path=/absolute/path/to/public_html/mysite \
--backupdir=/absolute/path/to/backups/mysite
# restore a site to a previous state
wp-tools restore --backupfile=/absolute/path/to/backups/mysite/wp_backup1428524082.tar.gz
Beginning with version 1.03, passing relative paths to --path, --backupdir, and --backupfile is deprecated.
You should use absolute paths (i.e. that begin with a /). Relative paths are accepted but will print a warning to
STDERR. This is because using a relative path does not behave as you would think (for boring historical reasons).
Many people were involved in the creation of WordPress Tools. In particular:
- Matt Andersen
- Gabriel Peery
- Seth Johnson [email protected]
- Charles McGarvey [email protected]
- Garth Mortensen [email protected]
This software is copyright (c) 2016-2018 by Bluehost Inc.
This is free software, licensed under:
The GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991