---
name: pp-wordpress
description: "WP-CLI-grade control over any WordPress site through plain HTTPS — no SSH, no server-side plugin, one static binary. Trigger phrases: `check my WordPress site`, `why is my wp-json returning 401`, `list posts from my WordPress site`, `publish this to WordPress`, `which of my WordPress sites need updates`, `find posts without a featured image`, `use wordpress`, `run wordpress-pp-cli`."
author: "bobe"
license: "Apache-2.0"
argument-hint: "<command> [args] | install cli|mcp"
allowed-tools: "Read Bash"
metadata:
  openclaw:
    requires:
      bins:
        - wordpress-pp-cli
    install:
      - kind: go
        bins: [wordpress-pp-cli]
        module: github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/developer-tools/wordpress/cmd/wordpress-pp-cli
---

# WordPress — Printing Press CLI

## Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the `wordpress-pp-cli` binary. **You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill.** If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to `$HOME/.local/bin` on macOS/Linux and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin` on Windows:
   ```bash
   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install wordpress --cli-only
   ```
2. Verify: `wordpress-pp-cli --version`
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on `$PATH` for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the `npx` install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into `$GOPATH/bin` (default `$HOME/go/bin`), so add that directory to `$PATH` instead:

```bash
go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/developer-tools/wordpress/cmd/wordpress-pp-cli@latest
```

If `--version` reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on `$PATH`. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

WP-CLI is the power tool but it runs on the server and needs SSH, which most shared hosting does not give you. The REST API reaches any site from anywhere with an Application Password, yet every existing client is abandoned, read-only, or hardcoded to a 2018 view of the API. This CLI covers the full modern core surface, adapts to the live route table of whatever site you point it at, and keeps a local SQLite mirror so cross-site and historical questions become one query instead of hundreds of paginated requests.

## When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI to read from or write to any WordPress site over HTTPS when you have a site URL and an Application Password. It is the right tool for content operations at scale (bulk publishing, editorial queue triage, taxonomy and media hygiene), for fleet maintenance across many client sites without SSH, and for diagnosing a WordPress REST API that is returning 401, 403, or rest_no_route. It is also the right tool when you need to know what a site's API actually exposes, since it reads the live route table rather than assuming a fixed endpoint list.

## Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:
- Do not use this CLI for database work — export, import, search-replace, or arbitrary SQL. WordPress exposes none of that over REST; use WP-CLI over SSH.
- Do not use it to install, update, or activate a theme. The core themes controller is read-only over REST; theme activation is not possible, and tools that advertise it are overclaiming.
- Do not use it to read or write arbitrary options. The settings endpoint exposes roughly twenty whitelisted core options under renamed keys; anything else needs register_setting with show_in_rest.
- Do not use it for WP-Cron, transients, object cache, rewrite rules, wp-config.php, roles and capabilities, or multisite network administration — none have a core REST surface.
- Do not use it to round-trip block-editor content through content.rendered; that strips the block markers and corrupts the page. Use --context edit and content.raw.
- Do not use it as a WordPress.com or Jetpack client. This targets the self-hosted /wp-json surface.

## Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

### Managing many sites at once
- **`fleet`** — See core version, pending updates, admin-account count and sync age for every site you manage, in one table.

  _Reach for this when the question spans more than one site. Every other command answers for a single site._

  ```bash
  wordpress-pp-cli fleet --agent
  ```

### Diagnosing a real site
- **`diagnose`** — Say in one command why a site's REST API is failing: path-based block, app-layer filter, bot challenge, renamed prefix, or stripped Authorization header.

  _Run this first whenever a WordPress request fails. A 401 can mean bad credentials, a security plugin, or a host stripping the auth header, and the status code alone cannot tell you which._

  ```bash
  wordpress-pp-cli diagnose --agent
  ```
- **`caps`** — Report what your credentials are actually allowed to do on each route, with zero writes.

  _Use this before pointing an unattended job at a site, instead of discovering permissions by attempting a write in production._

  ```bash
  wordpress-pp-cli caps --agent
  ```
- **`schema`** — Find out why a post type, field, or meta key is missing from the REST surface.

  _This is the show_in_rest blind spot. Reach for it when content exists in wp-admin but never appears in an API response._

  ```bash
  wordpress-pp-cli schema post --agent
  ```

### Editorial hygiene from the local mirror
- **`queue`** — See drafts, pending, and scheduled posts bucketed by how long they have been sitting in that state.

  _Answers 'what has been stuck in pending for three weeks', which wp-admin cannot express at all._

  ```bash
  wordpress-pp-cli queue --agent
  ```
- **`audit`** — Find posts and pages missing a featured image, a real category, an excerpt, or tags.

  _Use this for defects on content itself. It reports offending IDs, so the output feeds directly into a bulk fix._

  ```bash
  wordpress-pp-cli audit --agent
  ```
- **`orphans`** — List media files that no post or page references and that are nobody's featured image.

  _Reach for this when auditing storage or preparing a migration; it is the only way to size unused uploads without shell access._

  ```bash
  wordpress-pp-cli orphans --agent
  ```

## Command Reference

**abilities** — WordPress Abilities API — the platform-native agent surface (WP 6.9+)

- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities ability-categories` — List ability categories
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities ability-category` — Describe one ability category
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities get` — Describe one ability, including its input schema
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities list` — List abilities this site exposes to agents
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities run` — Execute an ability with a JSON input payload

**application-passwords** — Application passwords for a user

- `wordpress-pp-cli application-passwords create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli application-passwords delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli application-passwords get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli application-passwords introspect` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli application-passwords list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli application-passwords update` — 

**batch** — Atomic multi-request batching (core /batch/v1)

- `wordpress-pp-cli batch` — Execute up to 25 write requests in one round trip

**block-directory** — Search the block directory

- `wordpress-pp-cli block-directory` — 

**block-patterns** — Block pattern categories

- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns categories` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns list` — 

**block-renderer** — Render a block server-side

- `wordpress-pp-cli block-renderer <name>` — 

**block-revisions** — Blocks revisions

- `wordpress-pp-cli block-revisions delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-revisions get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-revisions list` — 

**block-types** — Registered block types

- `wordpress-pp-cli block-types get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-types list` — 

**blocks** — Reusable blocks (wp_block)

- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks update` — 

**blocks-autosaves** — Blocks autosaves

- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks-autosaves <parent> <id>` — 

**categories** — Categories

- `wordpress-pp-cli categories create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories update` — 

**comments** — Comments

- `wordpress-pp-cli comments create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments update` — 

**font-collections** — Font collections

- `wordpress-pp-cli font-collections get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-collections list` — 

**font-faces** — Font faces within a font family

- `wordpress-pp-cli font-faces create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-faces delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-faces get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-faces list` — 

**font-families** — Font families

- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families update` — 

**global-styles** — Global styles (theme.json)

- `wordpress-pp-cli global-styles get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli global-styles theme` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli global-styles update` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli global-styles variations` — 

**global-styles-revisions** — Global-Styles revisions

- `wordpress-pp-cli global-styles-revisions get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli global-styles-revisions list` — 

**media** — Media library items

- `wordpress-pp-cli media create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli media delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli media edit` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli media get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli media list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli media post-process` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli media update` — 

**menu-items** — Navigation menu items

- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items update` — 

**menu-items-autosaves** — Menu-Items autosaves

- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items-autosaves <parent> <id>` — 

**menu-locations** — Registered menu locations

- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-locations get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-locations list` — 

**menus** — Navigation menus

- `wordpress-pp-cli menus create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus update` — 

**navigation** — Navigation post type (wp_navigation)

- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation update` — 

**navigation-autosaves** — Navigation autosaves

- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation-autosaves <parent> <id>` — 

**navigation-revisions** — Navigation revisions

- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation-revisions delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation-revisions get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation-revisions list` — 

**oembed** — oEmbed discovery and proxying (core /oembed/1.0)

- `wordpress-pp-cli oembed get` — oEmbed response for a URL on this site
- `wordpress-pp-cli oembed proxy` — Proxy an external oEmbed request through this site

**page-revisions** — Pages revisions

- `wordpress-pp-cli page-revisions delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli page-revisions get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli page-revisions list` — 

**pages** — Pages

- `wordpress-pp-cli pages create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages update` — 

**pages-autosaves** — Pages autosaves

- `wordpress-pp-cli pages-autosaves <parent> <id>` — 

**pattern-categories** — Block pattern categories (taxonomy)

- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories update` — 

**pattern-directory** — Patterns from the pattern directory

- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-directory` — 

**plugins** — Installed plugins

- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins update` — 

**post-revisions** — Posts revisions

- `wordpress-pp-cli post-revisions delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli post-revisions get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli post-revisions list` — 

**posts** — Blog posts

- `wordpress-pp-cli posts create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts update` — 

**posts-autosaves** — Posts autosaves

- `wordpress-pp-cli posts-autosaves <parent> <id>` — 

**settings** — Site settings

- `wordpress-pp-cli settings get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli settings update` — 

**sidebars** — Widget sidebars

- `wordpress-pp-cli sidebars get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli sidebars list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli sidebars update` — 

**site-health** — WordPress Site Health checks

- `wordpress-pp-cli site-health authorization-header` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli site-health background-updates` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli site-health directory-sizes` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli site-health dotorg-communication` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli site-health https-status` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli site-health loopback-requests` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli site-health page-cache` — 

**statuses** — Registered post statuses

- `wordpress-pp-cli statuses get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli statuses list` — 

**tags** — Tags

- `wordpress-pp-cli tags create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli tags delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli tags get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli tags list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli tags update` — 

**taxonomies** — Registered taxonomies

- `wordpress-pp-cli taxonomies get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli taxonomies list` — 

**template-part-revisions** — Template-Parts revisions

- `wordpress-pp-cli template-part-revisions delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-part-revisions get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-part-revisions list` — 

**template-parts** — Block template parts

- `wordpress-pp-cli template-parts create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-parts delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-parts get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-parts list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-parts lookup` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-parts update` — 

**template-parts-autosaves** — Template-Parts autosaves

- `wordpress-pp-cli template-parts-autosaves <parent> <id>` — 

**template-revisions** — Templates revisions

- `wordpress-pp-cli template-revisions delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-revisions get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli template-revisions list` — 

**templates** — Block templates

- `wordpress-pp-cli templates create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli templates delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli templates get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli templates list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli templates lookup` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli templates update` — 

**templates-autosaves** — Templates autosaves

- `wordpress-pp-cli templates-autosaves <parent> <id>` — 

**themes** — Installed themes

- `wordpress-pp-cli themes get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli themes list` — 

**users** — Users

- `wordpress-pp-cli users create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli users delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli users get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli users list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli users update` — 

**widget-types** — Registered widget types

- `wordpress-pp-cli widget-types encode` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli widget-types get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli widget-types list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli widget-types render` — 

**widgets** — Widgets

- `wordpress-pp-cli widgets create` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli widgets delete` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli widgets get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli widgets list` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli widgets update` — 

**wp_search** — Search across post types

- `wordpress-pp-cli wp-search` — 

**wp_types** — Registered post types

- `wordpress-pp-cli wp-types get` — 
- `wordpress-pp-cli wp-types list` — 


## Freshness Contract

This printed CLI owns bounded freshness only for registered store-backed read command paths. In `--data-source auto` mode, those paths check `sync_state` and may run a bounded refresh before reading local data. `--data-source local` never refreshes. `--data-source live` reads the API and does not mutate the local store. Set `WORDPRESS_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1` to skip the freshness hook without changing source selection.

Covered paths:

- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities`
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities-categories`
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities-categories get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities-categories list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli abilities-categories search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns-categories`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns-categories get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns-categories list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-patterns-categories search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-types`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-types get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-types list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli block-types search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks`
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli blocks search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories`
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli categories search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments`
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli comments search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-collections`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-collections get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-collections list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-collections search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli font-families search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli media`
- `wordpress-pp-cli media get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli media list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli media search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-items search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-locations`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-locations get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-locations list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menu-locations search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli menus search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation`
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli navigation search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pages search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-categories search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-directory`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-directory get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-directory list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli pattern-directory search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins`
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli plugins search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts`
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts list`
- `wordpress-pp-cli posts search`
- `wordpress-pp-cli sidebars`
- `wordpress-pp-cli sidebars get`
- `wordpress-pp-cli sidebars list`
- `wordpr