Tag: mysql

  • How to Repair a Crashed WordPress Posts Table

    How to Repair a Crashed WordPress Posts Table

    Every now and then the WordPress posts table will crash and screw up your website. Why does this happen? It’s not always clear how tables get corrupted, although it can usually be attributed to an unexpected event, such as the MySQL server or the server host getting killed in the middle of an update, causing…

  • How To Prevent WordPress Plugins From Activating On Sites With Incompatible Hosting Environments

    How To Prevent WordPress Plugins From Activating On Sites With Incompatible Hosting Environments

    It’s frustrating for plugin authors when users mark their plugin as broken when in fact, it’s an incompatibility with the user’s hosting environment. Too many broken plugin reports could damage the reputation of the author even if it’s not his/her fault. Pressing Matters proposed a solution to the problem that while good for developers, is…

  • Database Migrations Made Easy Thanks To The WP DB Migrate Plugin

    WP DB Migrate is an awesome plugin created by Brad Touesnard. This plugin makes it easy to transfer the database contents between WordPress powered sites. While there is a Pro version of this plugin available, my experience was with the free version, hosted on the WordPress plugin repository.

  • Plugin And Theme Devs Have Reason To Celebrate

    A topic of discussion that’s popped up numerous times within the WP Hackers Mailing List as well as other places throughout the community is when WordPress would stop supporting PHP version 4 and move up to version 5. Well, the good news for all WordPress theme and plugin developers is here in that starting with…