Adding a RSS widget does not set the feed URL

[avaly]

Adding a RSS widget to a sidebar will not populate the feed URL for that widget.

$ wp widget add rss sidebar-1 1 --url="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/feed/" --items=3
Success: Added widget to sidebar.

Actual result: widget is added with the number of items set to 3, but with empty feed URL.

Expected result: widget has the feed URL set.

wp-cli version 0.15.1.

[westonruter]

Right, so this is probably because the --url param is ambiguous, referring either to the global WP-CLI --url parameter which sets the HTTP_HOST, instead of the widget instance item url. It would probably be better to prefix all such instance arguments with something like instance_ or to require passing JSON when setting the instance.

[danielbachhuber]

Sorry about that @avaly. I've been waiting for this to come up. wp menu is subject to a similar problem:

wp-cli/php/commands/menu.php

Line 194 in bdd601c

// protected `url` param in WP-CLI

In short, any of the global arguments (e.g. --url, --path) aren't really accessible to subcommands. While it hasn't posed too much of a problem to date, it has the potential of becoming a more substantial issue as we continue forward.

I'm not a fan of requiring a instance_ prefix, but I don't have a better solution to propose at this point. I'll give it some thought.

[JonathanReeve]

I was directed here from this StackOverflow question where I'm trying to add an RSS widget using the --url flag, unsuccessfully. Is there a workaround for this?

[danielbachhuber]

Is there a workaround for this?

No workarounds, unfortunately.