WP CLIThe command line interface for WordPress

wp core update

Updates WordPress to a newer version.

Defaults to updating WordPress to the latest version.

If you see "Error: Another update is currently in progress.", you may need to run wp option delete core_updater.lock after verifying another update isn't actually running.

wp core update [<zip>] [--minor] [--version=<version>] [--force] [--locale=<locale>] [--insecure]

Options

[<zip>]

Path to zip file to use, instead of downloading from wordpress.org.

[--minor]

Only perform updates for minor releases (e.g. update from WP 4.3 to 4.3.3 instead of 4.4.2).

[--version=<version>]

Update to a specific version, instead of to the latest version. Alternatively accepts 'nightly'.

[--force]

Update even when installed WP version is greater than the requested version.

[--locale=<locale>]

Select which language you want to download.

[--insecure]

Retry download without certificate validation if TLS handshake fails. Note: This makes the request vulnerable to a MITM attack.

Examples

# Update WordPress $ wp core update Updating to version 4.5.2 (en_US)... Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.5.2-no-content.zip... Unpacking the update... Cleaning up files... No files found that need cleaning up Success: WordPress updated successfully. # Update WordPress using zip file. $ wp core update ../latest.zip Starting update... Unpacking the update... Success: WordPress updated successfully. # Update WordPress to 3.1 forcefully $ wp core update --version=3.1 --force Updating to version 3.1 (en_US)... Downloading update from https://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.zip... Unpacking the update... Warning: Checksums not available for WordPress 3.1/en_US. Please cleanup files manually. Success: WordPress updated successfully.

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