wp-config.php's WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA requires extra-config.php, but the
ephemeral "docker run wordpress:cli ..." containers used for every wp-cli
call only mounted html/, not that file — loading wp-config.php there hit
a PHP fatal, which broke the wordpress:cli entrypoint's own internal
"wp help $1" probe for whether to prepend "wp". That probe failing
silently falls through to exec-ing the raw subcommand as a literal binary
("core: not found") instead of running it through wp-cli at all.
Fixed by: bind-mounting extra-config.php into every wp-cli invocation too,
guarding the require with file_exists so a missing mount can't fatal
wp-config.php again, and spelling "wp" out explicitly in the wpcli
wrapper functions rather than depending on the entrypoint's own
bootstrap-dependent auto-detection. Updated the manual-retry command
printed on failure and the README's wp-cli example to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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