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phpMyAdmin is a useful tool that many WordPress administrators depend on for carrying out database tasks. Its popularity makes it ubiquitous, and it offers great flexibility and a short learning curve. This article will take a hard look at phpMyAdmin from the WordPress point of view, including how it works, available installation options, and basic navigation.
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What is phpMyAdmin?
phpMyAdmin is a GUI web application (Graphical User Interface) that allows you to access and work on MySQL-based databases. Having a GUI can make it easier to manage MySQL databases if you’re unfamiliar with the CLI (Command Line Interface). While the CLI is often preferred by professionals and enthusiasts due to its flexibility, it can be daunting to those who do not regularly work on databases – this is the problem that phpMyAdmin seeks to address.
How does phpMyAdmin work?
As explained earlier, phpMyAdmin is a GUI for MySQL databases. It should be noted at this point that it also works for MariaDB, so if you are running this RDBMS flavor of my SQL, it will work just as fine.
Now, phpMyAdmin is a web application, which means it runs as a website. As such, you need to have a web server running on whichever machine you want to install phpMyAdmin on and access it through a web browser. In most cases, it is installed on the same server as the database is on; however, this does not necessarily have to be the case (more on this later).
Once installed, phpMyAdmin will connect to the RDBMS and display all available databases and tables. The user account used to log in to phpMyAdmin may limit which databases and tables you see. Assuming your MySQL user account has the right privileges, you will also be able to access the WordPress database.
Important note 1: phpMyAdmin uses MySQL user accounts and not WordPress accounts.
Important note 2: While you shouldn’t be scared to access the database, do proceed with caution. WordPress depends heavily on its database; any adverse…
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