WP-CLI Commands

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WP Sell Services ships a wpss command namespace for site operators and developers. Run wp wpss to list everything, or add --help to any command for its full options.

wp wpss demo         Manage demo services
wp wpss preflight    Run release-readiness preflight checks
wp wpss scale        Seed, benchmark and teardown a production-shape dataset
wp wpss service      Manage services (alias of `demo` -- same subcommands)
wp wpss test:flow    Run end-to-end data flow tests
wp wpss validate     Validate models and schema

All commands respect the current site in multisite (--url=).

Demo content

wp wpss demo and wp wpss service are the same command registered under two names, so every subcommand below works with either prefix.

wp wpss demo create --count=20 --featured=5   # seed 20 services, 5 featured
wp wpss demo marketplace                      # seed a FULL demo marketplace
wp wpss demo list                             # list services with stats
wp wpss demo stats                            # marketplace statistics summary
wp wpss demo regenerate-meta                  # rebuild computed service meta
wp wpss demo delete --yes                     # remove demo content only
wp wpss demo delete --all --yes               # remove EVERY service (always confirmed)

create and marketplace are not the same thing. create seeds service listings only. marketplace builds a working marketplace: multiple vendors with profiles and portfolios, buyers, orders across the whole lifecycle, reviews, buyer requests with proposals, and conversations. Use marketplace for staging sites, theme testing, and client demos; use create when you just need catalog volume.

demo delete and Settings > Advanced > Delete Demo Content run the same routine (wpss_delete_demo_content()): flagged services, buyer requests and media, the demo vendor accounts with their profile rows, and any category the demo created that is now empty. A demo service that a real buyer has ordered is kept, with its seller, because deleting a service deletes its orders; the result says how many were kept. Whether demo content is installed is decided from the content itself (wpss_has_demo_content()), so the wizard can import again straight after a delete.

Demo content is flagged internally (_wpss_demo_content), so demo delete never touches real customer data unless you pass --all, which also requires --yes and still confirms the site-wide count. Every command that writes rows (create, marketplace, regenerate-meta, delete, scale seed, scale teardown, test:flow) prompts with the count – pass --yes in scripts – and refuses outright when wp_get_environment_type() is production unless you pass --force. marketplace no longer changes the homepage; it prints the wp option update commands to do that yourself.

Health checks

wp wpss preflight    # verify database tables, settings defaults, page mappings
wp wpss validate     # validate marketplace data integrity

Run preflight after installation, after a migration, and before a release. Every check prints PASS or FAIL with the reason.

Testing and gap detection

wp wpss test:flow      # end-to-end data flow tests

Earlier documentation listed wp wpss test run, test tables, test gaps, test seed and test clean. No bare wpss test command is registered – those examples fail with “not a registered subcommand”. The only command in this group is test:flow. For seeding and cleanup use wp wpss demo, and for release checks wp wpss preflight.

test:flow walks a complete order lifecycle through the data layer and reports where a flow breaks. It is the fastest way to confirm a fresh install actually works end to end.

API payload contract

wp wpss api:shapes                        # audit every GET route
wp wpss api:shapes --verbose              # also list routes it could not reach
wp wpss api:shapes --route=conversations  # narrow to one area
wp wpss api:shapes --user=diego           # audit as a vendor, not an admin

Walks every registered GET route in both namespaces, fills parameterised routes from real rows in the database, and inspects each response for the two conventions a client depends on: dates are ISO-8601 with an offset, and any object describing a person carries deleted. Exits non-zero on a breach, so it can gate a build.

Run it after adding or changing an endpoint. It exists because the same class of inconsistency was reported three times, and twice the fix was verified against a hand-picked sample of endpoints and reported as if it covered the API.

Read the “Not audited” count as part of the result. Those are routes with no matching row on the current dataset, or not readable as the chosen user – an unaudited route is exactly where the last gaps hid, so the command names them rather than passing over them silently. Seeding the missing data, or re-running with --user, shrinks the list.

Repairs

wp wpss utc-migrate --dry-run   # rows per column and three "old -> new" samples
wp wpss utc-migrate             # convert now instead of waiting for the background job

1.8.0 stores every datetime in UTC. On upgrade, rows written before it are converted once in the background (Action Scheduler hook wpss_utc_migrate_batch). This command runs the same conversion in the foreground. A site on UTC whose database server is also on UTC has nothing to convert. Rows are converted once only, so running it again changes nothing.

updated_at is decided row by row, because two things wrote it before 1.8.0: PHP (site time) when a writer set it, MySQL (the database server’s clock) when a writer left it out. A value stamped in the same second as another date on the row (created, paid, started, completed) is treated as site time. Otherwise it is treated as the database server’s clock, unless that reading would put the update before the row was created. On a site whose WordPress time zone and database time zone match, both readings are identical. Always read the --dry-run output first on a site where they differ: it lists updated_at separately for each table and prints nothing for a value that would not change.

The conversion is safe to interrupt. Each batch and its progress marker are saved together, so a batch that dies is redone from its start, and only one batch runs at a time. If the background job stalls, the next visit to wp-admin by an administrator queues it again; you can also just run the command.

wp wpss repair:stripe-tax           # dry run: lists what would change, writes nothing
wp wpss repair:stripe-tax --apply   # writes the changes the dry run listed

Before 1.8.0, when Stripe’s payment webhook reached the site before the buyer’s browser, the order was recorded with tax counted twice: a $23.60 charge could be stored as a $27.85 order, and the vendor’s earning was sized on the inflated amount. This affects only sites that charge tax and use Stripe.

The command reads each taxed Stripe order’s payment from Stripe once and changes only orders with that exact shape: the stored subtotal equals what Stripe captured and the total is higher. It sets the subtotal, tax and total back to what was charged and re-splits the fee and earning at the order’s own commission rate. If the vendor was already credited, it adds one Order Correction row to their earnings for the difference. Stripe Connect orders get the order row only, because Stripe paid the vendor from the real charge.

Any other mismatch, and any affected order with a refund, is listed for review and left unchanged. Run the dry run first and read both tables. Running --apply twice changes nothing the second time. Every corrected order is written to the audit log as order.repair.

Scale benchmarking

For verifying the marketplace holds up at production shape – 10k vendors with orders and wallet transactions.

wp wpss scale seed                    # seed a production-shape dataset
wp wpss scale bench                   # time every hot-path query vs its budget
wp wpss scale bench --seed --teardown --yes # seed, bench, teardown on a disposable CI site
wp wpss scale teardown                # remove all benchmark data (count confirmed first)

Every seeded row carries a sentinel (a description / vendor_notes prefix plus a high user-id offset), so teardown removes exactly what seed created and never touches real marketplace data.

bench measures each hot-path query against a per-query budget, so it fails loudly when a change makes a list view unusable at scale, rather than leaving you to discover it on a customer’s site.