As we all know that WordPress is powered through PHP & MySql and by far phpMyAdmin is considered to be most adopted way of managing the MySQL databases. Most of the web hosting companies have it installed for their users and most of the users find it pretty intuitive. Same goes with WordPress these days. At times, it looks like a perfect marriage between the two!
When it comes to WordPress, there are various obnoxious situations that we can avoid with the help of phpMyAdmin and its neat little tricks. Thankfully, Many tech savvy and generous bloggers have shared those neat tricks with the world and in this post, I would like to accentuate them.
Tricks related to WordPress Users
1. Reset WordPress user password using phpMyAdmin – by WPBeginner.
2. Change WordPress admin username – by Mahesh Kukreja
3. Disable New User Registration – by Rajesh Patel [I don't see any reason for taking this step as it can be easily done through options under settings, but still you never know when these things can come handy].
4. Change post attribution from one author to another – WpRecepies.
Tricks related to WordPress Posts & Comments
1. Delete all spam comments using phpMyAdmin – by Technofriends
2. Batch delete posts revisions – by WPRecepies
3. Restore commenting back using repair feature of WordPress – by Speed of Creativity [of course, this is more of a troubleshooting trick, but one handy trick that may help you at certain time]
Troubleshooting WordPress using phpMyAdmin when nothing works
There are times, when you might be playing with some broken plugin/theme or not an updated plugin/theme that can cause WordPress to break then it gets little hard to Troubleshoot things if you don’t have the database backup already. However, you can save yourself by ensuring that you can create the database backup or restoring it with the help of phpMyAdmin -
1. Create WordPress database backup using phpMyAdmin.
2. Restore WordPress database backup using phpMyadmin.
Various other useful tricks
1. Move WordPress blog from one domain to another.
2. 12 quick and easy MySql tricks. [This is not through phpMyAdmin, however can come in handy through SSH]
3. Running multiple WordPress blog on single database. [not recommended, however if you are running out of number of database then this is the only solution - else change your hosting provider - Here's the guide to do so]
If you know more tricks, feel free to share it with us as we’ll keep this page up to date with all those wonderful tricks!
