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WP-CLI — past, present, and future
As WP-CLI's maintainer, Alain traces the tool from a monolithic script into a modularised framework with its own package manager, reflects on the wide adoption that made it hosting-industry infrastructure, and lays out where the project's scaffolding and code-generation tooling should head next.
The written Q&A covers how Alain took over maintenance from Daniel Bachhuber, what WP-CLI automates for WordPress operators, and why finding contributors across its many technical surfaces stays hard. He makes the case for WP-CLI as go-to code-generation tooling in the spirit of Laravel’s artisan, and names wp shell, wp config, and wp search-replace among his most-used commands.