WordPress

Choosing WordPress when you create a site runs the whole install: core downloaded, the database created, wp-config.php written, an admin user made. When it finishes you have a working site on real HTTPS.

WP-CLI 2.12.0 and Composer 2.10.2 are bundled, so nothing needs installing separately.

Magic login

One click opens wp-admin as an administrator. No password, no password manager, no admin/admin on twelve local sites.

rex site login myshop.rex
rex site login myshop.rex --print   # print the link instead of opening it

The manager

Everything below is in the app, and mirrored on the CLI as vetted WP-CLI operations:

Plugins and themesInstall from wp.org, a zip, a git clone, or a folder on your disk.

MultisiteSubdomain or subdirectory networks, with the certificate to match.

Users, roles and passwords too:

rex wp myshop.rex user list
rex wp myshop.rex user create editor editor@example.com --role=editor
rex wp myshop.rex user set-password admin

Passwords are generated, not typed

user create and set-password generate the password and print it once. It never travels on the command line, so it never lands in your shell history, in ps output, or in a log file.

Everyday operations

rex wp myshop.rex search-replace old.rex new.rex --dry-run
rex wp myshop.rex cache-flush
rex wp myshop.rex cron run
rex wp myshop.rex maintenance on
rex wp myshop.rex core versions
rex wp myshop.rex core switch 6.7.1

search-replace defaults to showing you what it would do. Run it with --dry-run first — it is the operation most likely to be right in intent and wrong in scope.

Anything not covered

The manager is a vetted set of operations rather than an arbitrary WP-CLI passthrough. For anything outside it, the site’s Terminal tab gives you a real shell, already in the docroot, with the site’s own PHP and wp on PATH:

wp plugin list --status=active --format=json
wp db query "SELECT option_name FROM wp_options WHERE autoload='yes'"

Mail

Every message the site sends is caught by Mailpit and none are delivered. That includes the password reset you are about to trigger, which is usually how people discover it.

Distributable zips

wp dist-archive builds a distributable plugin or theme zip from a repository asset, into ~/Downloads. Useful when the thing you are developing locally has to ship as a zip.