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How to write a custom WP-CLI command for your plugin
A WP CLI custom command belongs in your plugin when a maintenance or data task needs a repeatable command-line interface. Register a command class only when WP-CLI is running, describe its arguments in PHPDoc, then add dry-run handling, bounded batches, machine-readable output and exit codes.
- WP-CLI
- WordPress
- Plugins

