WP CLI fix “Warning: Some code is trying to do a URL redirect.” error

The WordPress command-line interface is incredibly useful when changing the domain URL of a website. When working on a client’s website I encountered the following warning when I ran the wp search-replace command.

Warning: Some code is trying to do a URL redirect. Backtrace:
#0  WP_CLI\Utils\wp_redirect_handler(http://example.com/) called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:288]
#1  WP_Hook->apply_filters(http://example.com/, Array ([0] => http://example.com/,[1] => 301)) called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-includes/plugin.php:203]
#2  apply_filters(wp_redirect, http://example.com/, 301) called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-includes/pluggable.php:1199]
#3  wp_redirect(http://example.com/, 301) called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-content/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/page_post_redirect_plugin.php:2151]
#4  quick_page_post_reds->redirect() called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:286]
#5  WP_Hook->apply_filters(, Array ([0] => )) called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:310]
#6  WP_Hook->do_action(Array ([0] => )) called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-includes/plugin.php:453]
#7  do_action(init) called at [/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-settings.php:450]
#8  require(/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APPNAME/public/wp-settings.php) called at [phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/WP_CLI/Runner.php:1174]
#9  WP_CLI\Runner->load_wordpress() called at [phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/WP_CLI/Runner.php:1100]
#10 WP_CLI\Runner->start() called at [phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/WP_CLI/Bootstrap/LaunchRunner.php:23]
#11 WP_CLI\Bootstrap\LaunchRunner->process(WP_CLI\Bootstrap\BootstrapState Object ([WP_CLI\Bootstrap\BootstrapStatestate] => Array ())) called at [phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/bootstrap.php:75]
#12 WP_CLI\bootstrap() called at [phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/wp-cli.php:23]
#13 include(phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/wp-cli.php) called at [phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/boot-phar.php:8]
#14 include(phar:///opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar/php/boot-phar.php) called at [/opt/sp/bin/wp-cli.phar:4]

Googling this warning message brought up several links to GitHub which all recommended using the --user=someadmin parameter. I tried that too but got the same warning. Looking at the backtrace log it is clear that the quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin is causing this redirect, so I used the --skip-plugins= parameter to skip loading this plugin.

wp search-replace --skip-plugins=quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin 'http://example.com' 'https://example.com' --skip-columns=guid

And I had no issues running the search and replace operation.

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