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# Wordpress & Plug-ins

Unlike with some of our more atomic deployments, we usually have and need quite a bit of direct access to the production environment with Wordpress. This means we *do* log-in to the server and run the odd CLI command as part of maintenance. Below are some examples to help with getting a sense of where our versions and packages are.

### Logging in

You can usually log into the remote host with SSL (we don't use hosts that don't allow it) and browse to the relevant domain's `html` or `public` folder:

```bash
[local] $ ssh [user]@[host]
Password: [password]
[remote] $ cd domains/[domain]/html
```

### Checking the Wordpress version

Any decent host will have [`wp-cli`](https://wp-cli.org/) installed, letting you get and set various things from the command line:

```bash
[remote] $ wp core check-update
+---------+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| version | update_type | package_url                                                 |
+---------+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| 5.5.3   | major       | https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-5.5.3.zip |
+---------+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
```

### Checking plug-in versions

Similarly:

```bash
[remote] $ wp plugin list
+----------------------------------+----------+-----------+---------+
| name                             | status   | update    | version |
+----------------------------------+----------+-----------+---------+
| advanced-custom-fields-pro       | active   | available | 5.7.13  |
| akismet                          | inactive | available | 4.1.1   |
| archived-post-status             | active   | none      | 0.3.7   |
| astar-user-submitted-post-export | active   | none      | 1.0     |
| careerfinder-data-export         | active   | none      | 1.0     |
| duplicate-page                   | active   | available | 4.0     |
| hello                            | inactive | available | 1.7     |
| subjectfinder-data-export        | active   | none      | 1.0     |
| wordpress-importer               | active   | available | 0.6.4   |
| wp-super-cache                   | inactive | available | 1.6.4   |
| wordpress-seo                    | active   | none      | 10.0.1  |
| advanced-cache.php               | dropin   | none      |         |
+----------------------------------+----------+-----------+---------+
```