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Get Familiar with WordPress Posts Database Table

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Have you ever opened up your database? Have you poked around in there to understand the layout and different buckets of content and information? In today’s quick tip, you’ll look at the wp_posts database table. You’ll learn about basic database terminologies, such as record, row, primary key, and columns. You’ll see how the columns within a record relate to the content you see in the WordPress back-end.

WordPress Posts Database Table Basics

Go ahead. Open up phpMyAdmin or Sequel Pro in your sandbox site. Let’s play with it and open your eyes up to how/where WordPress stores the content.

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