Comments on: Manage Your WordPress Database

By: Tommy Alvardo

Tommy Alvardo — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:10:22 +0000

That was sort of inspiring! Completely unpredicted. Now I am aware what I am heading to do tomorrow

By: Ivan Versluis

Ivan Versluis — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:06:14 +0000

Hi Chris, thanks for your post. Last week suddenly
new blogrole was added with my links widget and this was not added by me ;-(

I am not sure what happened but I am really thinking how to backup my blog frequently. I installed both suggested plugins and emailing weekly my database to gmail.

I optimzed my database tables and dropped some obsolete.

Cool post {thanks}

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:25:52 +0000

I use the backup plugin and you can set it to email you daily or even hourly. I just started using it so perhaps in an earlier version the backup was only weekly.

There is still the problem, however, of backing up the rest of the files – templates, etc…

By: GaMerZ

GaMerZ — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:25:09 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the review and allow me to clarify some points.

1. Schedule/routine backup and optimization of DB is already in.
2. There is a capability called “manage_database” and this capability is assigned only to the role “administrator”
3. This feature was suggested by one of my users quite sometime ago.

By: Nora Rubinoff

Nora Rubinoff — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:10 +0000

An important and helpful post that I’m sharing with my colleagues! Some in the virtual assistant industry are newer to WordPress and its incredible power and flexibility. Backing up your site and content is always important. Thanks for sharing a few tools for accomplishing this task. My hosting company also offers a back up feature via the control panel, which I also take advantage of. You can never have too many backups!

By: Rick Galan

Rick Galan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:00:42 +0000

I don't know of a db plugin, but I like to use SQLYog to manage the database. It's a standalone application, but let's you fully manipulate the database in a GUI environment, and do whatever you want with queries. Much more friendly than PHPMyAdmin.

By: Phil Barron

Phil Barron — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:24:22 +0000

Prompted by your review, I finally got around to installing WP-DBManager today. It seems to work as advertised, and does indeed provide for scheduled backups (from the main menu: Database > DB Options, then Automatic Scheduling at the bottom of the page) and optimization. I even tried restoring from the backup (with breath held) and all went well.

I do think that Empty/Drop Tables (and maybe Run SQL Query) should perhaps be buried in a sub-menu under an “Advanced” heading.

By: Cigar Jack

Cigar Jack — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:25:14 +0000

Two nights ago my WordPress DB was corrupted. WP-DBManager saved me. All I had to do was click Repair DB and everything worked again.

I’m still working on a way to easily backup everything else. I’ve been playing with scripting command line ftp to do it.