Posts tagged “wp-cli”

Well this was a very interesting problem to run into. We’d migrated a website to a new host and WP-CLI was throwing errors complaining about an issue with the FTP Connection. What, for real? What would WP-CLI want with an FTP Connection? It wasn’t all commands though; wp core version ran without issue but others like wp plugin list kept complaining. What’s more, running WP-CLI on another website on the exact same host proceeded without issue. What was going on?

Did you know you can disable Jetpack’s Downtime Monitoring module using the ever-so-useful WP-CLI? Perhaps you’re doing some routine Website Maintenance and don’t want to be barraged by emails alerting you to the planned website downtime (and if you’re the type to never do maintenance on your website, you really should think about starting).

As divisive as the Jetpack WordPress plugin is, the Downtime Monitoring module is an easy, free way to be alerted when your WordPress website goes down. The problem is that Jetpack has been very indecisive about how to allow users to disable the Downtime Monitoring module.

Currently you can toggle it from your WordPress Admin but previous versions redirected you to the linked WordPress.com account where, in my experience anyway, it failed more often than not. So if you’ve been having trouble disabling the Downtime Monitor and if you happen to have WP-CLI installed (why wouldn’t you?), you can use this nifty command:

wp jetpack module deactivate monitor

Simple, isn’t it? Just don’t forget to turn it back on when you’re done!