Command to delete all inactive plugins and/or themes

[drywall]

Is there anything in the works to make it easier to delete inactive stuff? Something like:

wp plugin delete --inactive

Right now the easiest way I've found to do this is with:

wp plugin list --status=inactive --fields=name --format=csv | tail --lines=+2 | xargs wp plugin delete

...which is not terribly convenient or self-explanatory. If nothing's in the works but people would like it, I'm happy to attempt to cobble something together...

[danielbachhuber]

You can use:

wp plugin delete $(wp plugin list --status=inactive --field=name)

I'll add it as an example to wp plugin delete

[drywall]

Thanks! What version of wp-cli supports this?

[danielbachhuber]

Thanks! What version of wp-cli supports this?

v0.12.0 and higher

[tmuka]

I noticed this referenced on the blog, wanted to pop by with a warning to be careful since the one-liner will happily delete the required parent theme of a wp child theme.

On my servers I use something like this to whitelist a few themes I know are parent themes.
sudo wp --allow-root theme list --status=inactive --enabled=no --field=name | egrep -v "(twentyfifteen|genesis|business|thematic|twentytwelve)" | xargs -0 -d"\n" wp --allow-root theme delete

A better way would be to first list the active theme, then grep it's style.css file for "Template:" which would indicate it's a child theme. i didn't have a one liner for this, but i might try to come up with one using something like this to return the active theme's parent.
grep "Template:" $(find . -name $(wp --allow-root theme list --status=active --field=name))/style.css | cut -d: -f2 | xargs

maybe it'd be cleaner to make the parent of an active theme return a status that isn't "inactive"...

[danielbachhuber]

maybe it'd be cleaner to make the parent of an active theme return a status that isn't "inactive"...

Or we could have parent as the status for an "active" parent theme?

[tmuka]

yeah, i like that.

[danielbachhuber]

Cool, #2033