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Migration: Copying database content to a different server

I'm migrating our WordPress site from one server to another. I need some hint on how to deploy a database dump (which I have) from the original server to the new one. There is no phpmyadmin (at least ...
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can we add extra table or column in wordpress for adding our data

Just a simple question is it possible if yes what are the requirements of this mean i want to make a table for adding songs information in table like link | name | date | size | moviename is it ...
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Query from a different database than the default

I'm making a layout for a wordpress page. The layout needs to connect to a second database (both databases are in the same domain). But the problem is, when i execute just the file it works. But ...
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Can you refresh ONLY the wordpress adminbar and not the whole page?

Here is my challenge: I have included an electronic wallet in the admin bar of my wordpress site and what I need to do is to refresh ONLY the admin bar so that, upon a purchase, the electronic wallet ...
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Importer fails to import every post

I'm trying to move the content of a wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted one. Right now I'm just trying to set things up on my local environment. I exported the content using the built-in WordPress ...
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Creating Job Tickets

I work in a small print shop and I want to digitize our workflow. I have found many plugins that are for support tickets, but I want to be able to create job tickets for printing jobs. I have found ...
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Add, Edit Delete, Entry on Custom Database

This is all started when my client asked me to upload the excel file data into a WordPress database for their subscribers. I'm done creating the tables and add the entries "manually" on the ...
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Saving Custom Post types and fields to a custom table

I have a project in which I am trying to import a large amount of data into a WordPress installation and from that data, create pages on my site (as a custom post type). Since these pages will be ...
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contact form-7 drop downs not populating database

I am using contact form 7 with Contact Form to DB Extension. I have this following code for my form. However when I to a test submit only the name and the address populate the database, there isn't ...
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dbdelta failing with error: "WordPress database error Table 'wp_2_myPlugin' already exists

I'm upgrading a plugin and having issues with dbdelta. Here's the original db creation function: global $jal_db_version; $jal_db_version = "0.1"; function jal_install() { global ...
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wp_get_current_user always returns 0 continued

I have been busting my head trying to get the user ID with every piece of code possible but it always comes back "0". Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I started out using this: <?php $user_info = ...
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Moving online website to MAMP or dumb idea?

I was thinking of doing some major design (incl child theme and plugin stuff) on an existing site which is rather large. I'm thinking it would be good to do my trial and errors offline and having a ...
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Database interaction (private-public)

I like to have a nice website for my client. I will do it with WordPress. But that client will manage a database, much like Excel or Lotus or Access or FileMaker. I like to offer the same style of ...
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Ajax save data to database on document ready, no data being saved

I have written a plugin which collects stats on document ready. Keep in mind that my database table is already created. I've added the following code to do the ajax code add_action( 'wp_head', ...
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How to fetch records from my own table in wordpress? [closed]

I use below code create and insert record in my table in wordpress database global $jal_db_version; $jal_db_version = "1.0"; function jal_install() { global $wpdb; global $jal_db_version; ...
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Moving to another server database connection error

I have some issues when I try to move it on other server. This are the steps: I go into my actual database through phpmyadmin, export the database. I copy the entire folder of my wordpress website ...
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Cloning blog to localhost via WAMP

How do restore a Wordpress blog (actually, cloning would be the right word) from my server to localhost with WAMP? I backed up my blog with BackUpWordPress and got a .zip file ...
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Wordpress can't fetch the posts from the database after moving to new server

After moving wordpress to a new server , I used the same domain in the old server , it's display "Nothing Found" in the index page , and even can't get the posts in "The most comments" widget , and ...
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Managing database tables in WordPress multisite

I'm working on plugin that creates and stores some data in database table (using global $wpdb->base_prefix). In WordPress multisite I want sub-website owners to have access only to data that they've ...
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Using wp_term_relationships table for new object

I need to create a table to store data about campaigns (name, status, and other info). These campaigns will be associated to one or more wp categories. I thought that this association could be done ...
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Within the database, where is the flag which says that a user has Super Admin rights?

I have an user in a Wordpress Multisite installation and have access to the Mysql database, I would like to give myself super-admin rights to access the wp-admin/network page. Where can I do it on ...
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Export all content from wordpress

Evening all. I've decided instead of upgrading the install of wordpress that I have, to just take the content (my writeups, comments, pages) and move them to the new site install. Is there an easy ...
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Building a form with WordPress, and also pulling that data for a user page

I am going to give the most basic example of what I want to achieve. I have a page for booking a pickup service, and a form needs to be created to take information of the following. (Date, # of ...
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Tools for Editing WP Exports?

I'm about to embark on developing a tool that allows you to diff and merge two WordPress exports. Before I go committing a big effort in this, I'd like to know it's not already out there. I've ...
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“Master” Wordpress Multisite - Database Sync

I've had an idea in my head about creating a Wordpress Multisite environment that would have Plugins along with them that would not only have "default" settings, but be able to update each blog's ...
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DB connection error when I mirror a site

I am modifying the functionality of a wordpress site for a job. I mirrored the site by FTP on my host to work on it. My client provided credentials for the MySQL database but they seem to be ...
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storing database in version control

I am using a version control system to manage my wordpress code (git). What is the betst way to store the database information into version control? I want to go to my staging machine, run git pull ...
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Major issue with image sizes being lost, only full size images being shown

I'm seriously stuck with an issue on WordPress. It appears my serialised data has gotten messed up, I think, in the postmeta table where meta_key = _wp_attachment_metadata I'm totally baffled. The ...
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Help With MySQL to WPDB Query Conversion

I have a problem. I've got a PHP script that tracks individual file downloads, and I'm looking for a way to display that number in individual posts. I've got a half-baked solution- a plain ol' MySQL ...
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How to STOP wordpress trying to update database?

I have a current project which I have a lot of custom code to the core etc. I know it's not best practise but it is what it is... only problem is that wordpress is trying to force me to update my ...
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Special characters in WordPress UTF-8

I have a problem regarding special characters that are appearing messed up on the front-end . mainly the get converted to question marks, or something like �?) Example - Frédèric becomes Fr�d�ric. ...
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Bootstrapping Wordpress MultiSite Outsite of Wordpress - No $wpdb

I'm working on a plugin for a system to use Wordpress as the authentication backend, so that I can use my existing Wordpress users in another application. The plugin works great when running in single ...
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Tons of Twitter rows in my database

I have 264,307 "http" (post_type = http) rows in my wp_posts table. 99% of those have them have this post_title: GET http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/@xcentric.json?count=100 and "error" ...
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How to run a SQL Query for character in Post Titles

Pretty much self explanatory. I have a development server running the latest WP, and I imported a bunch of posts from a blogger account. After the import, every post was titled as such: >Example ...
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Is there a plugin that will override the “Error establishing a database connection” message?

My provider's database server recently had some downtime and my site was displaying the classic "Error establishing a database connection" message for about an hour. I knew what the problem was but ...
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what is the wp_5_posts table in the database?

I'm wondering what all the wp_2_*, wp_3_*, wp_4_*, and wp_5_* tables are in the database. Does anyone know what they are? Some of them in my example are from plugins, but what does the wp_# prefix ...
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How does Wordpress handle MySQL row lock errors?

If there is a WordPress plugin which updates rows in a custom table, but that update encounters a row lock, what happens? E.g. two users simultaneously fire an update on TABLE1, one setting AGE=1 and ...
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294 Queries on Mainpage of Wordpress

I have 294 queries on my wordpress site. I checked using sql monitorand the maximum queries are to display count of a cities list custom field. Lets say there are 200 cities then 200 queries are ...
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Moved to a new server, backup was a day old and missing 3 posts, anyway to recover them from old host?

I made a backup for my clients site the other night, apparently after I made the backup they made a few posts. I then moved the site to another host and resetup wordpress and imported the database and ...
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If wordpress gets hacked, is there any way to get it back? [closed]

I was wondering if a website gets hacked can we get it back from the database? If so please tell me the procedure. Thanks
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Can posts have parents?

Are posts supposed to have parents? If so, what would that mean for a post to have a parent? Also, if there are some constraints to posts having parents, then where is that enforced? Not in the DB as ...
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How does WP decide how to evaluate database integrity

I've upgraded a handful of WPMU sites from 2.9 to WP3. I've never had problems with that process .. until today, when all of a sudden, one install tells me that the DB is missing some tables. The ...
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WordPress Didn't like the site move?

I have a site that has been dropped on my lap and it currently has some WordPress issues. The site can longer auto update, and complains about paths when I try to update a plugin: Unable to locate ...
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How can I (semi) automate a database export and import to a different location?

I'm attempting to move toward developing WordPress sites locally, rather than on a live server, and as part of that move I'd like the ability to have a local and a remote version of a site, and easily ...
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Load posts from external source if not found in database

I want to modify WordPress so that it requests content from a function if content is not found in the database. I want to edit the section of the code which requests and returns the post content ...
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Forcing nickname as display_name in custom edit profile template

Context I've created a front-end "edit profile" template. When I input a value into the nickname text box only the nickname is updated. The default WordPress forum has a select menu that ...
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Migrating Wordpress database from MySQL server to Microsoft SQL server

I am pretty desperate to migrate all of my data from my MySQL DB to a MSSQL server. Wordpress is currently installed and the site is running with all of the normal posts etc... displayed. The only ...
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Wordpress will not operate correctly

My website is ImASpy.com. If you click on the link, Findings, this takes you to my first Wordpress page. It appears to work fine until you click on comments, or you try to go to the about page, which ...
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Add Admin User via SQL

I gave my client the admin account to his wordpress install and I forgot to add an administrator user for myself. Now, I can no longer access the admin panel because they have changed their password. ...
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Updating seperate database when post attachment is changed

I have a seperate database with lists of users, brochures and brochure URL's, and timestamps of when a brochure was ordered, but I want my database to update everytime a brochure (PDF) attachment is ...

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