WP-SETUP(1)

✨ WP-SETUP(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is wp-setup from section 1 of the manual (that's the general commands section, iykyk) 💅 and honestly? she's a little helper script and she's serving.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

wp-setup — wordpress setup for Debian 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wp-setup action

one action, that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the whole purpose of this script — the moment, the assignment, the reason she exists — is to make managing Wordpress installations on Debian systems easier. like, genuinely easier. that's the goal 🎯

but ngl, right now it's mainly for the package's internal usage. so she's not out here doing the most for the general public just yet — she's lowkey a backstage girlie working behind the scenes 💅

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👑 ACTIONS 👑

• --sync-wp-content — updates /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/{plugins,themes}/ based on whatever's available in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/{plugins,themes}. so like, she's matching up the live dirs with the source dirs, no cap ✨

and the way that she gets run?? this command is run by the package's postinst script every single time that dpkg installs a package that modifies something in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/. so every. single. time. she's there. she's reliable. she ate 🔥

• --purge-wp-content — removes all the symlinks from /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/{plugins,themes}/ that point to the corresponding directories in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/{plugins,themes}. bye bye symlinks, it's giving cleanup 🧹💀

this command is run by the package's prerm script, and the whole reason is to make sure everything is properly removed. no leftovers, no crumbs, nothing 🙈

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> — icon, legend, author of this whole thing 👑

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real talk bestie: this page is documented as perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-10-29, and it's the wp-setup manual from the wp-setup source. stan a consistently generated manpage fr fr 🫶💜

okay that's the whole page, ilysm, go manage your wordpress installs responsibly ✨🌸💖