Force reinstall all plugins or themes

[jb510]

I feel like this has been suggested before, but the past issues I found were actually different (either about core, or about an individual plugin/theme)

I would really like it if there were a way to:
wp plugin update --all --force
and
wp theme update --all --force

Which would reinstall all plugins/themes with the latest version from the repo.

There is a regular plugin I've used for this in the past: https://wordpress.org/plugins/baw-force-plugin-updates/ but it seems a natural fit to wp cli.

This is common step when dealing with a hacked site and frankly I'd like to run it periodically on non-hacked sites just in case anything got out of sync between repos and servers.

[danielbachhuber]

You can achieve the same by composing two commands:

$ wp plugin install $(wp plugin list --field=name) --force
Warning: Couldn't find 'airplane-mode' in the WordPress.org plugin directory.
Installing Akismet (3.1.11)
Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.3.1.11.zip...
Unpacking the package...
Installing the plugin...
Removing the old version of the plugin...
Plugin updated successfully.

I'll include this as an example in the docs

[jb510]

Oh fancy! Thanks!

Question (obviously I'm not that versed in bash scripting): Is the first $ your bash prompt? I use zsh and have a custom prompt, but I it didn't work when I included the first $.

wp plugin install $(wp plugin list --field=name) --force

Obviously I'm not that versed in bash syntax.... I found this https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Substitution which I assume is that function, just want to make sure I'm not missing something.

[danielbachhuber]

Is the first $ your bash prompt? I use zsh and have a custom prompt, but I it didn't work when I included the first $.

No, $ is just an indicator for a command being entered into the bash prompt (compared to output from the command).

[khromov]

Great snippet @danielbachhuber

If anyone is looking to reinstall themes in the same manner, the command is:

wp theme install $(wp theme list --field=name) --force

[jb510]

So this normally works, but I'm getting fatals from plugins and the theme calling a member function on null (old code using globals). Normally --skip-plugins and --skip-themes would bypass that, but here I get

% wp plugin install $(wp plugin list --field=name) --force --skip-plugins --skip-themes

usage: wp plugin install <plugin|zip|url>... [--version=<version>] [--force] [--activate] [--activate-network]

I guess you can't skip when installing? Seems odd though as I thought those were global params https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/plugin/install/

[danielbachhuber]

@jb510 You're using bash substitution, which means you're running two separate commands. You'll need to also run wp plugin list --skip-plugins --skip-themes

[jb510]

damn it... that thought occurred to me briefly and then I forgot to try it. You bash skilled are legendary...

[sharmashivanand]

Try this if you don't want to attempt drop-ins, mu-plugins, waste files left inside plugins folders etc.

This carefully looks for directories only inside wp-content/plugins and forces a reinstall.

wp plugin install $(ls -1p wp-content/plugins | grep '/$' | sed 's/\/$//') --force

[richard-muvirimi]

You can also use Force Reinstall to force plugin and theme reinstallation