WP-CLI WordPress Guides
More WordPress plugins and themes are storing their settings as serialized options in the wp_options table. Sometimes we need to batch update these serialized settings for one reason or another and before it was only possible to update these programmatically with WP-CLI if the setting in the database was a simple non-serialized version. Luckily WP-CLI … Learn more…
This post will show you how to identify which WordPress plugin options in the wp_options table belong to a specific plugin. Normally developers will search in the wp_options table manually with phpMyAdmin or Adminer (WordPress plugin version) but this can often be very tedious as you have to paginate though sometimes hundreds of pages! When … Learn more…
In this post I will show you how to easily convert your WordPress database tables from the MyISAM engine to the InnoDB engine with WP-CLI. In case you are wondering why you would want to do this database conversion, this StackOverflow post highlights the improvements of InnoDB over MySIAM (taking advantage of multiple cores is … Learn more…
WordPress plugins typically leave leftover bloat in the database after you remove them. JetPack from Automattic is no different. If you find that JetPack has way more features than you need and want to uninstall it completely, this guide will help you do that by removing the JetPack database values from the wp_options and wp_postmeta … Learn more…
I was migrating a huge, high traffic WordPress site for a client on Codeable to Kinsta. Unfortunately they didn’t have FTP access or details so I had to get creative. Luckily, they were using VaultPress so I could generate a backup zip to download from there. Much to my surprise, I learned that the database … Learn more…