{"id":784,"date":"2015-02-20T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:21","slug":"install-wordpress-via-ssh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/install-wordpress-via-ssh\/","title":{"rendered":"Install WordPress via SSH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have a WordPress website that is damaged, infected, or just won&#8217;t update, you may need to reinstall WordPress to get things kickstarted. Sometimes a site may be so out of whack that you can update\/replace from the WordPress dashboard. If that&#8217;s the case, use this handy script to pull the latest version from WordPress&#8217; servers and write it over your current version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>wget http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.tar.gz --no-check-certificate --no-check-certificate\ntar zxf latest.tar.gz\ncd wordpress\nyes | cp -rpf * ..\/\ncd ..\/\nrm -rf wordpress\/\nrm -f latest.tar.gz<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course the standard &#8220;You&#8217;ll shoot your eye out!&#8221; warning comes with this. Back things up before you try this. It may not necessarily turn out how you thought it would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a WordPress website that is damaged, infected, or just won&#8217;t update, you may need to reinstall WordPress to get things kickstarted. Sometimes a site may be so out of whack that you can update\/replace from the WordPress dashboard. If that&#8217;s the case, use this handy script to pull the latest version from &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Install WordPress via SSH\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/install-wordpress-via-ssh\/#more-784\" aria-label=\"Read more about Install WordPress via SSH\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}