Document the list filters these commands implement themselves

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Follow-up to the question of why #636 covered only the write commands. Independent of it — branched off main, reviewable on its own, and justified as documentation rather than as groundwork for anything.

What is undocumented

Site_Command::list_() filters on a list defined in its own code:

$site_cols = [ 'blog_id', 'last_updated', 'registered', 'site_id', 'domain', 'path',
               'public', 'archived', 'mature', 'spam', 'deleted', 'lang_id' ];

User_Application_Password_Command::list_() does the same with its APPLICATION_PASSWORD_FIELDS. Between them that is nineteen working filters, none of which appear as parameters — users are left to infer them from --<field>=<value> plus the "Available Fields" section.

These are not obscure. This repo's own tests already depend on several: site.feature uses --site_id and --blog_id, user-application-password.feature uses --name. They are supported behaviour that simply is not written down.

Command	Documented before	After
site list	7	18
user application-password list	5	12

A bug found while documenting

--created and --last_used on user application-password list never matched anything. Core returns those two fields as integers, a command-line argument always arrives as a string, and the filter compared with ===. Documenting them as-is would have added two more parameters that accept a value and quietly discard it — the exact failure mode this line of work is about.

Fixed by comparing as strings, the way Signup_Command::list_() already does for the same reason. Confirmed by reverting just the source change and re-running the scenario, which then fails on the --created step.

Two deliberate omissions

path on site list. It is in $site_cols but unreachable, because the global --path is consumed before the command sees it. The existing --site-path parameter covers it and already explains why.

Every other list command. post list, comment list, user list, term list, post-type list and taxonomy list hand their arguments to WP_Query, WP_Comment_Query, get_users(), get_terms(), get_post_types() and get_taxonomies(). Those accept an open-ended set that plugins extend, so there is no fixed list to write down. That is the real reason the catch-all exists on those commands, and it is why #636 stopped at the write commands, where the accepted set genuinely is enumerable from core's docblocks.

signup list is a third case, left for a follow-up: its columns are fixed, but it also filters on arbitrary keys unserialized from the signup meta, so only part of its surface can be documented.

Correction to an earlier version of this description

An earlier revision claimed that documenting these fields fixes wp site list --site_id=2 under wp-cli/wp-cli#6392 but introduces a new collision on --lang__in / --lang_id. The second half of that was wrong, and I would rather correct it here than leave it in the record.

site list does not use WP_Site_Query at all — it queries $wpdb->blogs directly through a TableIterator, with a WHERE clause built only from $site_cols, site__in, site_user, site-path and network. --lang__in is a WP_Site_Query argument, so it is silently ignored by this command today and is not a supported filter. I had built the comparison corpus by merging WP_Site_Query's variables into site list's argument set, which was an assumption I never checked.

What follows from the corrected picture:

• The --site_id regression under #6392 is real, and this PR resolves it by making --site_id a documented parameter.
• site list has a closed argument set, so once it is fully documented there is no residual collision on this command.
• The open-ended argument only holds for the commands that genuinely pass through to core's query classes — post list, comment list, user list, term list — and WP_Query's own vocabulary is where the dense collisions actually live (cat/tag/day, m/p/s/tb).

Testing

Behat scenarios added for both commands, exercising the newly documented filters, the dashed --app-id and --last-used spellings the command normalizes, and --network taking precedence over --site_id. The site filters operate on sites given contrasting statuses, so each assertion fails if its filter stops working rather than matching the whole set.

Suite	Result
site.feature	35 scenarios, 431 steps, all passed
user-application-password.feature	6 scenarios, 4 passed, 2 pre-existing failures

Those two failures — "User application passwords are disabled for WordPress lower than 5.6" and one of the two "Get particular user application password hash" scenarios — are version-gated and fail identically with src/ and features/ checked out at origin/main (5 scenarios, 3 passed, 2 failed). Not caused by this change.

Run on SQLite against WordPress trunk. PHPCS clean; PHPStan unchanged at the origin/main baseline.

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• Documentation

  • Expanded wp site list documentation with filters for site identifiers, domains, dates, visibility, status, and language.
  • Documented application-password filters for app ID, name, UUID, password, creation and usage details, and IP address.
  • Added hyphenated aliases for supported application-password filtering options.

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  • Added coverage for site filtering by identifiers, status, visibility, and network behavior.
  • Added coverage for application-password filters, alternate option formats, value comparisons, usage tracking, and empty results.

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The changes document and test additional wp site list and application-password list filters. They cover status, ID, timestamp, alias, count, field, and scalar-comparison behavior.

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Site list filters

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Site filter documentation and coverage src/Site_Command.php, features/site.feature	The documentation adds site ID, network ID, domain, date, status, and language filters. Integration coverage verifies filtered IDs, counts, fields, and --network precedence over --site_id.

Application-password list filters

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Application-password filter documentation and coverage src/User_Application_Password_Command.php, features/user-application-password.feature	The command documents field filters and hyphenated aliases. Filtering normalizes scalar values to strings and handles missing or non-scalar values. End-to-end coverage verifies app ID, name, UUID, creation time, and last-used time.

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Inline comments:
In `@features/site.feature`:
- Around line 971-993: Make the site-list status-filter assertions non-vacuous
by creating or configuring sites with contrasting public, archived, deleted, and
spam statuses before the count checks. Update the expected counts for the
--public, --archived, --deleted, and --spam scenarios so each assertion depends
on its filter rather than matching the default unfiltered count, following the
existing Behat setup patterns in the feature.

Apply the same fix in `@features/site.feature` around lines 952 - 963.

In `@features/user-application-password.feature`:
- Around line 318-320: Add the existing `@require-wp-5.6` tag to the “Filter
application passwords by field” scenario, matching the earlier
application-password scenarios so it is skipped on unsupported WordPress
versions.

In `@src/User_Application_Password_Command.php`:
- Around line 96-101: Update list_() to normalize the created and last_used
option values to integers before strict comparison with WP_Application_Passwords
fields, preserving filtering behavior for both timestamp options and the
--last-used alias. Add Behat coverage confirming each filter matches application
passwords with the corresponding timestamp.

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