Comments on: 11 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks For Maintaining Your Blog

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:23:42 +0000

Thank you for this! Very helpfull!

By: Tracy Edwards

Tracy Edwards — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:30:06 +0000

I would just lke to say a big thank you for this fantastic post.

I have used this page countless times now when I have built a new wordpress site and its because a great reference guide.

Tracy

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:55:46 +0000

Life saver, thanks man!

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By: Hung

Hung — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:29:26 +0000

Gino,

These are some great tips here – great post.

I have a similar problem that probably needs one of your SQL hack’s – but with a twist!

Wonder what thoughts you’ve got on this:

I’ve had to uninstall wordpress due to a virus, completed a fresh install and reconnected with a backup database. Posts/Comments/Pages can be seen in the Dashboard, but do not appear on the website – instead I get a 404 Error page. I think it’s because the wordpress uses absolute rather relative url paths, and the urls are still pointing to the old location.

Any idea of how to fix? Something similar to Hack 1 or 2 would appear logical, but what would the command be if I don’t need to change the home or site url, but rather edit the absolute path.

Either that, or it’s an edit that I need to make on .htaccess?

Thanks for reading – I really appreciate your time.

Best wishes

Hung

By: casey

casey — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:20:33 +0000

thanks for this – i’ve been moving a lot of sites and changing domains lately – this is really helpful!

By: Gino Gard

Gino Gard — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:54:04 +0000

I’m glad to hear everything is resolved. Thanks for the update!

By: Leaf

Leaf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:51:19 +0000

*** Update ***

The problem was ……. well, some unknown gremlins. It resolved itself – somehow?

Thanks for this list of hacks Gino – I’ll continue to use them (with beyond-my-knowledge trepidation).

By: Leaf

Leaf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:19:13 +0000

Might be something to do with the recent “Great Media Temple Mass-Password-Reset Post-Hack”? The Media Temple crew are checking it out as we speak: irrespective of anything else, their Twitter support is sensational (@mediatemple).

I’ll keep you posted: it’s more-likey my err somewhere.

By: Gino Gard

Gino Gard — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:14:12 +0000

Using that hack should not affect your WordPress SQL login. That error typically occurs when the SQL password is incorrect within your wp-config.