Beginner's Guide to WordPress Database Management with phpMyAdmin

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One of our most important recommendations for WordPress users is to learn how to maintain their WordPress databases.

WordPress is written using PHP as the scripting language and MySQL as the database management system. You don't need to learn either language to use WordPress .

However, a very basic understanding of both could help you troubleshoot and increase your knowledge of how WordPress works (behind the scenes) .

This article will explain how WordPress uses the database, list of germany cell phone number including an introduction to WordPress' default database tables. We'll also show you how to manage a WordPress database using phpMyAdmin, including creating database backups, optimizing the WordPress database, repairing the WordPress database , and more.

How to manage WordPress database using phpMyAdmin
This is a comprehensive guide to WordPress database management, so we've added a table of contents for easier navigation:


A database is a system for organizing and retrieving data. It allows software to manage data in a programmable way.

WordPress, for example, uses PHP (a programming language) to store and retrieve data in the database.

The information stored in a WordPress database includes posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, custom fields, users, and other WordPress settings. We'll explain this in more detail later in this tutorial when we talk about WordPress database tables.

When you first install WordPress , you will be asked to provide a database name, host, username, and password. This information is stored in the configuration file called wp-config.php .