Drush commands

The sites:* commands. Any Drush command runs in the context of a site when given that site's URL: drush --uri=https://www.hydrion.example ….

sites:assign-unassigned

Linked from: Find content without a site

Puts the content that belongs to no site on a site.

The command line's way through a large backlog — terms, blocks, media without an administration listing to select them in. Items of a bundle the site does not take are skipped and reported; a bundle no site takes is global content and is never touched; accounts are never assigned.

Aliases: sau

Option	Description	Default
--to	The site that takes the content.
--type	One entity type id, like node or taxonomy_term. Every site content type when empty.
--bundle	One bundle of that type, like tags. Every bundle when empty.

Examples:

• drush sites:assign-unassigned --to=hydrion: Puts every content item without a site on Hydrion.
• drush sites:assign-unassigned --to=hydrion --type=taxonomy_term --bundle=tags -y: The tags without a site only, without asking.

sites:clone

Linked from: Clone a site

Clones a site: its settings, its content and the links of its menus.

The content follows the source's cloning rules unless --method names a method for it. The clone starts disabled.

Aliases: sclone

Argument	Required	Description
source	yes	The id of the site to clone.
id	yes	The clone's id (a machine name).
title	yes	The clone's name.

Option	Description	Default
--hostname	The hostname of a main site.
--main-site	The main site a sub-site lives under (needs the Sites path prefix module).
--prefix	The path prefix of a sub-site.
--languages	Langcodes the clone speaks, comma-separated; the source's default is always among them. Without it the clone speaks the source's languages.
--default-language	The clone's default language, one of --languages. Without it the source's.
--method	A clone method for one content key, as "node:page=clone_content". Repeatable. A key not named follows the source's cloning rules.
--no-menus	Do not copy the links of the source's per-site menus, whatever its cloning rules say.	false

Examples:

• drush sites:clone hydrion velmora "Velmora" --hostname=www.velmora.example: Clone hydrion by its own cloning rules.
• drush sites:clone hydrion hydrion_de "Hydrion DE" --hostname=de.hydrion.example --languages=de --method=node:page=clone_content: A German-only clone that copies the pages.

sites:create

Linked from: Create a site, Deployment

Creates a site, disabled until sites:enable puts it in service.

Aliases: sc

Argument	Required	Description
id	yes	The site id (a machine name).
title	yes	The site name.

Option	Description	Default
--hostname	The hostname of a main site.
--main-site	The main site a sub-site lives under (requires the Sites Path Prefix module).
--prefix	The path prefix of a sub-site.
--type	The site type. Optional when only one site type exists.

Examples:

• drush sites:create velmora "Velmora" --hostname=www.velmora.example: A main site on its own hostname.
• drush sites:create hydrion_fr "Hydrion FR" --main-site=hydrion --prefix=fr: A sub-site under hydrion at /fr.

sites:delete

Linked from: Disable and delete a site

Deletes a site.

Aliases: sdel

Argument	Required	Description
site	yes	The site id.

Option	Description	Default
--content	What becomes of the content that belongs to the site only: reassign (it moves to --reassign-to) or delete. Required while such content exists; it is never left without a site. Content shared with other sites keeps its other sites either way. Both need the Sites Content module.
--reassign-to	The site that takes over the content with --content=reassign.

Examples:

• drush sites:delete velmora: Delete velmora, whose content all belongs to other sites too.
• drush sites:delete velmora --content=reassign --reassign-to=hydrion -y: Move what only velmora held to hydrion, then delete velmora.
• drush sites:delete velmora --content=delete -y: Delete what only velmora held, then velmora.

sites:disable

Linked from: Disable and delete a site

Takes a site out of service; its content and settings stay.

Argument	Required	Description
site	yes	The site id.

Examples:

• drush sites:disable velmora: velmora stops answering on its host.

sites:enable

Puts a site in service.

Argument	Required	Description
site	yes	The site id.

Examples:

• drush sites:enable velmora: velmora answers on its host.

sites:export-content

Linked from: Default content and recipes

Exports sites with their content as default content, for a recipe.

Writes each site, its role assignments and stored configuration overrides, the content that belongs to it (with its sites and site overrides) and everything those refer to, one YAML file per entity, as a recipe's content directory takes them. User accounts are written with their password hashes.

Aliases: sexc

Argument	Required	Description
directory	yes	The directory to write to, like a recipe's content directory.

Option	Description	Default
--sites	The sites to export, by id, comma-separated. Every site when empty.

Examples:

• drush sites:export-content ../recipes/valtora_demo/content: Exports every site and its content into a recipe.
• drush sites:export-content /tmp/hydrion --sites=hydrion,hydrion_uk: Exports two sites and their content.

sites:info

Shows a site: its identity, its resolved settings, its config overrides.

Aliases: si

Argument	Required	Description
site	yes	The site id.

Option	Description	Default
--environment	Resolve settings and overrides for this environment instead of the current one.
--format	Format the result data. Available formats: csv,json,list,null,php,print-r,string,table,tsv,var_dump,var_export,xml,yaml	yaml
--fields	Limit output to only the listed elements. Name top-level elements by key, e.g. "--fields=name,date", or use dot notation to select a nested element, e.g. "--fields=a.b.c as example".
--field	Select just one field, and force format to string.

Examples:

• drush sites:info hydrion: The hydrion site as YAML.
• drush sites:info hydrion --environment=stage --format=json: What hydrion resolves to on stage.

sites:list

Lists the sites of the platform.

Aliases: sl

Option	Description	Default
--format	Format the result data. Available formats: csv,json,list,null,php,print-r,sections,string,table,tsv,var_dump,var_export,xml,yaml	table
--fields	Available fields: ID (id), Name (label), Type (type), Structure (structure), Host (host), Enabled (enabled), Base URL (base_url)
--field	Select just one field, and force format to string.

Examples:

• drush sites:list: Every site as a table.
• drush sites:list --format=json: The same with the base URL, as JSON.

Last updated 2026-10-17

Linked from: Testing and debugging