Adds the WP-CLI command wp db export-clean to create a MySQL database dump without sensitive data related to customers and optionally API secrets/credentials, while retaining all administrative users and their related data.

Revisions are excluded as well to minimize the dump file size.

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wp db export-clean [<filepath>] [--remove-keys]

The command accepts the result filename as argument. If omitted, it defaults to ./clean.sql.

• Create clean database dump in ./clean.sql:

  $ wp db export-clean

• Create clean database dump in the user's home directory:

  $ wp db export-clean ~/clean.sql

• Exclude plugin license keys and API keys in the clean database dump – useful when working with plugin vendor support or unknown freelancers:

  $ wp db export-clean --remove-keys

• WordPress Core (keeping only posts and comments from retained users, omitting revisions, transients and caches)
• WooCommerce (only orders from retained users, omitting scheduled actions and sessions)
• WooCommerce Subscriptions (only subscriptions from retained users)
• Gravityforms (omitting revisions, entries, and statistics)
• wp-lister-amazon, wp-lister-ebay (omitting feeds, jobs, logs)
• Yoast wordpress-seo (omitting index tracking, migrations, links)

wp db export-clean runs directly after WordPress is loaded (like wp db export), which means that only wp-config.php and plugins are loaded but WordPress is not bootstrapped with init hooks. You can place your hooks into a must-use plugin; for example:

wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-cli-db-export-clean.php:

<?php

/*
  Plugin Name: wp db export-clean Customizations
  Version: 1.0.0
  Description: Includes test users in the clean database dump.
*/

add_filter('wp-db-export-clean/allowed-emails', function ($allowed_emails) {
  return array_unique(array_merge($allowed_emails, [
    'test@example.com',
  ]));
});

wp db export-clean only includes users having the role Administrator by default. Use the filter hook 'wp-db-export-clean/allowed-emails' to include more users in the database dump:

/**
 * Customizes list of email addresses to retain in clean database dump.
 *
 * @return array
 *   An array whose items are email addresses to keep.
 */
add_filter('wp-db-export-clean/allowed-emails', function ($allowed_emails) {
  global $wpdb;
  $users = $wpdb->get_col(
    $wpdb->prepare("SELECT u.user_email FROM {$wpdb->prefix}users u WHERE u.user_email LIKE '%%%s'", '@example.com')
  );
  return array_unique(array_merge($allowed_emails, $users));
});

In addition, you can include users by ID:

/**
 * Customizes list of user IDs to retain in clean database dump.
 *
 * @return array
 *   An array whose items are user IDs to keep.
 */
add_filter('wp-db-export-clean/allowed-user-ids', function ($allowedUserIds) {
  $allowedUserIds[] = 123;
  $allowedUserIds[] = 456;
  return array_unique($allowedUserIds);
});

/**
 * Customizes list of shop order/subscription IDs to retain in clean database dump.
 *
 * @return array
 *   An array whose items are shop_order IDs to keep.
 */
add_filter('wp-db-export-clean/allowed-order-ids', function ($allowedOrderIds) {
  $allowedOrderIds[] = 123456;
  return array_unique($allowedOrderIds);
});

Implement the following filter hook to customize the where conditions for all tables.

/**
 * Customizes select query conditions for each table in clean database dump.
 *
 * @return array
 *   An array whose keys are table names and whose values are SQL WHERE clause conditions.
 */
add_filter('wp-db-export-clean/table-wheres', function ($tableWheres) {
  global $wpdb;

  $tableWheres = array_merge($tableWheres, [
    "{$wpdb->prefix}my_log" => '1 = 0',
    "{$wpdb->prefix}my_userdata" => "user_id IN ({$allowedUserIds})",
  ]);
  return $tableWheres;
});

When passing the --remove-keys option, the following plugins are currently supported:

• WooCommerce (PayPal)
• WooCommerce PayPal Plus
• WooCommerce PayPal Express Checkout (woocommerce-gateway-paypal-express-checkout)
• wp-lister-amazon
• wp-lister-ebay
• Gravityforms
• WooThemes (wp-all-import, wp-all-export)
• Optimus
• Elementor
• SearchWP
• Gravityforms Zero Spam
• WooCommerce Amazon Payments

1. To install the latest version of this package for the current user:

   wp package install makers99/wp-cli-db-export-clean

1. Add the package as submodule.

   git submodule add --name wp-cli-db-export-clean git@github.com:makers99/wp-cli-db-export-clean.git .wp-cli/packages/db-export-clean

2. Register the command for early WP-CLI bootstrap.

   echo -e "require:\n  - .wp-cli/packages/db-export-clean/package.php" >> wp-cli.yml

   Or manually:

   vi wp-cli.yml

   require:
     - .wp-cli/packages/db-export-clean/plugin.php

1. Install the package with Composer.

   composer config repositories.wp-cli-db-export-clean git https://github.com/makers99/wp-cli-db-export-clean.git
   composer require makers99/wp-cli-db-export-clean:dev-master

   Note: Do not use --dev to install as require-dev, because export-clean is typically used in production.

2. Register the command for early WP-CLI bootstrap.

   echo -e "require:\n  - vendor/makers99/wp-cli-db-export-clean/package.php" >> wp-cli.yml

   Or manually:

   vi wp-cli.yml

   require:
     - vendor/makers99/wp-cli-db-export-clean/package.php

Add to wp-cli.yml in your site root folder:

db export:
  max-allowed-packet: 1G

Originally authored by Bogdan Arizancu and Daniel Kudwien.