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Is Your WordPress Database a Disaster? Get a grip on your tables and options to improve performance

May 19, 2017 by Sallie Goetsch 1 Comment

House destroyed by an earthquake
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Checking Up on Your Website

Over time, your WordPress database accumulates clutter. A bloated database can cause performance problems, and it may also make backing up and restoring more difficult. Continue Reading Is Your WordPress Database a Disaster? Get a grip on your tables and options to improve performance

Filed Under: Using WordPress Tagged With: Tutorial, WordPress Database, Site Management

Checking and Repairing Your WordPress Database

November 28, 2012 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Database check and repair tools in cPanel

A week or so ago now (time gets away from me in the most appalling fashion) I was about to post something on my personal blog when I encountered an unexpected problem. I got an “Error establishing database connection” message. Say what? This frequently means there’s something wrong in your wp-config.php file, or maybe your… Continue Reading Checking and Repairing Your WordPress Database

Filed Under: Using WordPress Tagged With: WordPress Database

Find and Replace

April 16, 2010 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

I don’t know why this feature isn’t built into WordPress. It’s one we’ve desperately needed since the beginning, so when I first discovered the Find and Replace plugin, I just about threw a party. (And when I installed it I noticed that one of the developers is someone I know from the WordPress LinkedIn group.)… Continue Reading Find and Replace

Filed Under: Most Valuable Plugins Tagged With: WordPress Database

How to Repair and Optimize Your Database in WordPress 2.9

January 10, 2010 by Sallie Goetsch 2 Comments

This feature seemed especially likely to be useful to me for my older blogs, the ones that had gone through imports and exports and lots of different plugins. At first I wasn’t sure what you were supposed to do besides pasting the code define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true); into your config.php file. (And when I pasted it the… Continue Reading How to Repair and Optimize Your Database in WordPress 2.9

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WordPress Database Backup

November 12, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

backup in progress

If you lose your WordPress database, you’re screwed. And you may hope that your hosting company is backing it up, but are you sure? Besides, with all those hackers out there eagerly seeking out vulnerabilities in WordPress, it’s a good thing to have a copy or two or three of your database around. Continue Reading WordPress Database Backup

Filed Under: Most Valuable Plugins Tagged With: Backups, WordPress Database

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