Manage the state of WordPress with WP-CLI

[danielbachhuber]

As an administrator of WordPress sites, it would be helpful if I could manage the state of WordPress with WP-CLI.

On a high level, this command would need to:

• Produce a file (YAML, JSON, or otherwise) describing WordPress' configuration (option values, installed plugins, etc).
• Be able to interpret a configuration file, and apply state changes to WordPress.

Some related prior art:

• WP-CFM: http://forumone.github.io/wp-cfm/
• WP-Bootstrap: https://github.com/eriktorsner/wp-bootstrap/
• Dictator: https://github.com/danielbachhuber/dictator

The principle challenge appears to be developing the layer of abstraction for how WordPress understands what's in the database.