How to use it

Warning

There is an official parameter for this in WP-CLI: https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/post/url-to-id/

This package will be not updated!

Install

wp package install codeatcode/wp-cli-getbyurl

Output structure

Kind of content | post id | post type/taxonomy

Commands

To get the id and post type by url:

wp get-by-url --skip-plugins --skip-themes http://demo.test/2018/10/your-post

Output:

post | 33 | post

To get the id and taxonomy by url:

wp get-by-url --skip-plugins --skip-themes http://demo.test/tag/test/

Output:

term | 2 | post_tag

Works also with attachment.

Why skip plugins and themes

It is a good practice in WP CLI when you have to execute commands that are heavy of resources to not load plugins and themes for a lot of reasons.

Why the separator is pipe?

In that way is more easy to do script on it in bash or other languages

How to use it

# How to use the script:
#     cat list.txt | xargs -n1 remove-page-by-url.sh

out=$(wp get-by-url "$1" --skip-plugins --skip-themes)
if [[ -n $out ]]; then
    command=$(cut -d'|' -f1 <<< "$out" | sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//')
    id=$(cut -d'|' -f2 <<< "$out" | sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//')
    what=$(cut -d'|' -f3 <<< "$out" | sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//')
    if [[ "$what" == 'post' || "$what" == 'attachment' ]]; then
        wp "$command" delete "$id" --skip-plugins --skip-themes
    else
        wp "$command" delete "$what" "$id" --skip-plugins --skip-themes
    fi
fi