WP-CLI Tips: Search & Replace Like a Pro
03.11.2025
If you run a WordPress website or manage multiple WordPress instances, sooner or later you’ll face a classic problem: You move your site from an IP-based environment or staging domain to a real domain — and suddenly your internal links, media URLs, and pingbacks still point to the old host. Manually rewriting database values?Painful. Exporting SQL and hunting down strings?Error-prone and slow. A much faster and safer way is to use WP-CLI — a powerful command-line tool for WordPress administration. Below is a practical snippet I recently used when migrating a WordPress instance from an IP-based dev server