WP-CLI allows users to manage WordPress installations from the command line. It allows for automated installation, updates, plugin and theme management, content creation and editing, media management, and more. It requires a UNIX-like environment with PHP 5.3.2 or later and WordPress 3.5.2 or later. It can be installed via cURL or on Vagrant environments. Common commands include installing WordPress, managing plugins and themes, importing/exporting content, database management, searching/replacing, and managing users, posts, media, and options.
The document discusses configuring a minimum WordPress configuration including using Nginx instead of Apache as the web server, adding CDN integration, making the web and database servers redundant, and tuning the MySQL configuration using mysqltuner.pl to check security, storage engines, and performance metrics and recommendations.
This document discusses improving the performance of WordPress sites through various techniques including HipHop VM for PHP, mod_pagespeed, Nginx with ngx_pagespeed, and SPDY. It notes WordPress can sometimes run slowly and these techniques can help speed performance in a scalable way. Benchmark results show the Amimoto AMI with WP Booster configuration achieving over 100x faster requests per second than a normal WordPress installation.
This document discusses using Nginx as a web server with PHP. It provides configuration examples for using Nginx with PHP-FPM to pass PHP requests. Benchmarks show Nginx performs better than Apache. It also discusses using Nginx as a reverse proxy cache, and provides configuration examples to cache content and pass caching controls from PHP.