Updating WordPress to the nightly version

Sometimes, it is useful to use the WordPress nightly version on your local environment, to avoid problems with your code in the near future.

To install the WordPress Beta/Nightly version, you can download the zip file and install it. But it is easier to do it using the WP CLI. You only have to use this command:

wp core update --version=nightly

Updating to version nightly (en_US)...
Downloading update from https://wordpress.org/nightly-builds/wordpress-latest.zip...
Unpacking the update...
Success: WordPress updated successfully.

If you check the version, you can see the alpha version running:

wp core version

6.1-alpha-53873

You can add the update command to your cron if you want to have your local installation updated daily.

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