Command line
Artisan commands that come with Wake.
Wake runs completely without a command line. These commands are for developers and for hosts with SSH. Run them from the site root:
php wake/artisan <command>
All Laravel commands work as usual. Wake adds the following.
wake:index
Updates the content index. Only needed when the setting index.check is
'never' and you changed files by hand. With --force, every file is parsed
again, even unchanged ones.
php wake/artisan wake:index
php wake/artisan wake:index --force
Problems found while reading content, such as broken front matter or two entries with the same address, are listed after the summary.
wake:backup
Writes a backup ZIP to data/backups, the same as Backups in the panel.
With --stats, the statistics are included. See
backups.
php wake/artisan wake:backup
php wake/artisan wake:backup --stats
wake:restore
Replaces content, settings and accounts with a backup: a path, or the name of
a file in data/backups. The current state is saved as a backup first, and
the replaced folders go to the trash. Asks before it starts, unless you pass
--force.
php wake/artisan wake:restore wake-backup-2026-10-18-120000.zip
php wake/artisan wake:restore /path/to/backup.zip --force
wake:clear
Removes all cached pages and the compiled templates (temp/framework/views).
Wake clears the page cache by itself whenever content changes, so you need it
mainly after changing a theme, or when the panel or website still shows an old
template.
php wake/artisan wake:clear
wake:layout
Moves a site from the folder layout of Wake before 0.2 to the current one
(decision 0011): site/ and
storage/ become settings/, themes/, plugins/, data/ and temp/,
every entry becomes a folder with content.md, number and date prefixes become
order:, menu: true and published:, and images move to content/media/.
Menus, redirects, versions and image references follow the new ids.
Without --apply it only lists the steps. With it, Wake first zips the old
content/, site/ and storage/ (without caches) to
storage/backups/before-layout-….zip, which ends up in data/backups/. To go
back, unzip it over the site folder.
php wake/artisan wake:layout # show what would happen
php wake/artisan wake:layout --apply # do it
| Option | Meaning |
|---|---|
--apply |
Move the files. |
--no-backup |
Skip the ZIP of the old folders. |
--root=PATH |
Move another site folder. |
Afterwards Wake clears the page cache and the compiled views. Running it again on a moved site does nothing.
wake:maintenance
Runs the maintenance tasks right away: publishes scheduled entries whose date has passed, and later also builds statistics and cleans up old data.
php wake/artisan wake:maintenance
If your host offers cron, set maintenance.mode to 'cron' and run Laravel's
scheduler every minute instead:
* * * * * php /path/to/site/wake/artisan schedule:run
wake:mcp
Starts Wake's MCP server over standard input and output, for an AI assistant running on the same machine. It needs a personal token from the panel (Assistants), given as option or environment variable:
php wake/artisan wake:mcp --token=wake_…
WAKE_TOKEN=wake_… php wake/artisan wake:mcp
To connect Claude Code locally:
claude mcp add wake -- php /path/to/site/wake/artisan wake:mcp --token=wake_…
See MCP server for the tools.
wake:import:ghost
Imports posts, pages and tags from a Ghost export file. With --url, images
are downloaded from the old site. --language sets the language of the
imported content.
php wake/artisan wake:import:ghost ghost-export.json --url=https://blog.example.org
See Move from Ghost.
source: docs/reference/cli.md