Open WP Admin From The Command Line

I use WP-CLI for pretty much everything these days. And since I am more and more working from a Linux system and thus practically living on the command line, I wanted to have a quick way to open WP Admin right there.

I added the following shell function to my bash config file, .bashrc in my case:

wpadmin() {
    local site="${1:-}"
    (open "$(wp $site option get siteurl --skip-plugins)/wp-admin" 2>/dev/null &)
}

It works with and without WP-CLI aliases, so I can use it both locally and for remote sites.

A couple of notes:

• Use xdg-open instead of open, if that is not available on your system
• The --skip-plugins flag is optional, but speeds up the process for some of my sites
• I know about wp-cli-login-command, but I wanted something simpler that works for all sites, and I’m usually already logged in anyway
• Make sure to run source .bashrc after you added the function or open a new terminal
• Update: Claudio pointed out that there is also wp admin. (I am not sure why this never came up, when I was searching for this functionality…) However, the command is not part of core WP-CLI and has to be installed as an additional package.

I hope you find this useful!