The Best WordPress Backup Plugins for 2025
Backing up your site is a little like buying fire insurance. You never need it outside of a catastrophe, but not having it is just going to make the catastrophe… Read more
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Posts tagged: Database
Understanding WordPress GUIDs: What They Are, and Why Change Them
The WordPress GUID is a unique identifier for individual posts, pages, media, and practically any other custom post type. As such, it’s a key element in rendering your WordPress content… Read more
Brad
Nov 17, 2021
The Ultimate Developer’s Guide to the WordPress Database
Here at Delicious Brains we eat, drink and sleep databases. However, we believe that any developer working with WordPress should have some level of knowledge about the database that sits… Read more
Iain Poulson
Jun 3, 2020
SQL Query Optimization for Faster WordPress Sites
You know that a fast site == happier users, improved ranking from Google, and increased conversions. Maybe you even think your WordPress site is as fast as it can be… Read more
Iain Poulson
Apr 7, 2020
Optimizing Laravel Part 2: Improving Query Performance with Database Indexing
This is article 2 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at some simple commands and some basic code tweaks we could use to… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Mar 26, 2019
Optimizing Laravel Part 1: The Basics
This is article 1 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” Laravel is a very popular PHP framework these days and can be used for a range of web applications,… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Feb 5, 2019
GDPR for WordPress Developers: Announcing the (Free) Anonymization Addon
Like me you are probably getting ten emails a day from companies announcing changes to their privacy policy or asking you to re-confirm your email address for marketing purposes. This… Read more
Iain Poulson
May 23, 2018
Announcing X-Ray For Mergebot: Visualize Your Database Changes
Something new is coming to Mergebot, our solution for making merging database changes easier. One of the hardest things during site development is seeing what has been done to the… Read more
Brad
Nov 15, 2017
Creating a Custom Table with PHP in WordPress
Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a custom table in WordPress or why you would ever want or need to? WordPress comes with many different ways to… Read more
Evan Mattson
Sep 12, 2017
Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 3: Automating the Rest
This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my last post in the Automating Local WordPress Setup series, I created a… Read more
Matt Shaw
Feb 21, 2017
Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 2: Creating a WP-CLI Package
This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my previous article in this series, I discussed some simple ways to make… Read more
Matt Shaw
Oct 18, 2016
Managing Custom Tables in WordPress
Once upon a time I tried to build a theme and plugin store into the WordPress dashboard. Kind of like iTunes for WordPress. I called it WP App Store. Long… Read more
Brad