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Regenerate permalinks and rewrite rules

cautionWP-CLIalle

Caution: This command changes the system. Understand what it does before you run it.

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user@server
wp rewrite flush --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

Discards the stored rewrite rules and rebuilds them, just like saving the permalink settings in the dashboard. Helps with 404 errors after migrations, plugin changes or new post types. Critical for SEO, since 404s on existing URLs cost rankings.

Note: .htaccess is only written with --hard, and even then only if WP-CLI detects mod_rewrite (via apache_modules in wp-cli.yml). Under nginx, check the rules in the server configuration.

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Change domain: replace the old domain in the database

$wp db export /var/www/vhosts/example.com/before-domain-change.sql --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp search-replace '//old.example.com' '//example.com' --all-tables --skip-columns=guid --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Change the siteurl and home addresses

$wp option update siteurl 'https://example.com' --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp option update home 'https://example.com' --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Check whether WordPress blocks search engines

$wp option get blog_public --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Read the siteurl and home addresses

$wp option get siteurl --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp option get home --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Remove the search engine block in WordPress

$wp option update blog_public 1 --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Switch the WordPress database from http to https

$wp db export /var/www/vhosts/example.com/before-https.sql --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp search-replace 'http://example.com' 'https://example.com' --skip-columns=guid --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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