wp-cli stops working with wp-html-mail

(@whallify)

Hello –

I recently discovered that my wp-cli and wc-cli were no longer working on my site. I would run any wp command and it would have zero output at all. If I run wp-cli command with the --skip-plugins option, it works.

I checked the tips at https://make.ww.wp.xz.cn/cli/handbook/identify-plugin-theme-conflict/ which give a tip on how to find which plugin causes an issue.

It gives this command:
wp plugin list --field=name --status=active --skip-plugins | xargs -n1 -I % wp --skip-plugins=% plugin get % --field=name

I changed it to this one so I could see what it was doing:

for i in $(wp plugin list --field=name --status=active --skip-plugins); do echo -n "$i: " ; wp --skip-plugins=$i plugin get $i --field=name; echo ""; done

Running this command basically iterates through all the plugins, and then for each one, attempts to run a basic wp plugin get command while skipping that plugin.

When I ran it, two plugins showed up:


wp-html-mail:   wp-html-mail
wp-html-mail-woocommerce:   wp-html-mail-woocommerce

and sure enough, if I skip wp-html-mail plugin in my command, commands work:


wp --skip-plugins=wp-html-mail role list
+------------------+------------------+
| name             | role             |
+------------------+------------------+
| Administrator    | administrator    |
[snip]

I’m running 2.9 of both wp-html-mail and wp-html-mail-woocommerce:


wp --skip-plugins plugin get wp-html-mail
+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Field       | Value                                                                            |
+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| name        | wp-html-mail                                                                     |
| title       | WP HTML Mail                                                                     |
| author      | Hannes Etzelstorfer                                                              |
| version     | 2.9                                                                              |
| description | Create your own professional email design for all your outgoing WordPress
emails |
| status      | active                                                                           |
+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


wp --skip-plugins plugin get wp-html-mail-woocommerce
+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Field       | Value                                                 |
+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| name        | wp-html-mail-woocommerce                              |
| title       | WP HTML Mail - WooCommerce                            |
| author      | Hannes Etzelstorfer // codemiq                        |
| version     | 2.9                                                   |
| description | Beautiful responsive mails for your WooCommerce store |
| status      | active                                                |
+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------+

This is the most recent version I was emailed about earlier this month.

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Plugin Author Hannes Etzelstorfer
(@haet)

7 years, 1 month ago

Hey @whallify
Thank your for this perfect problem description. I wish all users would describe their problems so detailed as you do!
We are going to have a look at the issue.
best regards, Hannes
Thread Starter whallify
(@whallify)

7 years, 1 month ago
Thank you for the kind words.

For anyone out there waiting for a fix like I am, the following two workarounds might help:

The first is to edit the WP-CLI config file to use defaults that help the situation. Values like these can also be placed into a YAML-formatted configuration, described further here:
https://make.ww.wp.xz.cn/cli/handbook/config/

For example, make a ~/.wp-cli/config.yml file that contains the following line:

skip-plugins: wp-html-mail

This file can be helpful for many things, like setting a default path or user for WooCommerce lookups
```
$ cat ~/.wp-cli/config.yml
path: /var/www/html
user: myspecialuser
skip-plugins: wp-html-mail
```
Secondly, an alias can be created (assumes Linux shell). Put the following into the ~/.bash_aliases or ~/.profile

alias wp2="wp --skip-plugins=wp-html-mail"

and instead of using WP-CLI with the wp command, use wp2 instead.

This can also be helpful if using WC-CLI and always needing to add a user

alias wp2="wp --skip-plugins=wp-html-mail --user=username"
- This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by whallify.

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