| --authors  <authors> | How the author mapping should be handled. Options are ‘create’, ‘mapping.csv’, or ‘skip’. The first will create any non-existent users from the WXR file. The second will read author mapping associations from a CSV, or create a CSV for editing if the file path doesn’t exist. The CSV requires two columns, and a header row like “old_user_login,new_user_login”. The last option will skip any author mapping | 
| --skip  <data-type> | Skip importing specific data. Supported options are: ‘attachment’ and ‘image_resize’ (skip time-consuming thumbnail generation) | 
| --path  <path> | Path to the WordPress files | 
| --url  <url> | Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified | 
| --ssh  <options> | Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docker”, “docker-compose”, “vagrant”) | 
| --http  <http> | Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP | 
| --user  <options> | Set the WordPress user | 
| --skip-plugins | Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded | 
| --skip-plugins  <plugins> | Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded | 
| --skip-themes | Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes | 
| --skip-themes  <themes> | Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes | 
| --skip-packages | Skip loading all installed packages | 
| --require  <path> | Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once) | 
| --exec  <php-code> | Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once) | 
| --color | Whether to colorize the output | 
| --no-color | Whether to colorize the output | 
| --debug | Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help | 
| --debug  <group> | Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help | 
| --prompt | Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values | 
| --prompt  <assoc> | Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values | 
| --quiet | Suppress informational messages |