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How to migrate data from custom site to WordPress?

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Currently I have a site with around 6.000 articles running on a custom built cms platform, but due to demand from the client, we have been tasked to convert all data to WordPress. Everything is stored in MongoDB in a custom structure (nothing extraordinary) and I have been looking at how I could

database, import Dimser 2 years 0 Answers 57 views

Can posts have parents?

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Are posts supposed to have parents? If so, what would that mean for a post to have a parent? Also, if there are some constraints to posts having parents, then where is that enforced? Not in the DB as I see it.

database, posts Alexander Bird 2 years 0 Answers 62 views

Multiple user tables OR one large table for multiple records per User?

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I want to allow users to have 1000+ records in my wordpress system. I was wondering is it best to have just one table for all users and their records or one table per user? Keep in mind that I could have 1000 users.. A user columns for records would look like: Use

database samjco 2 years 0 Answers 58 views

Having issues with wp_postmeta and wp_usermeta tables too big

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We've got a WP+woocommerce site that is over 8 years old. The site has over 60,000 users and a similar number of orders. The wp_postmeta has over 4,000,000 records and wp_usermeta has over 1,500,000. This is causing all kinds of issues because the site was not updated regularly. The site wants to

database Brent Friar 2 years 0 Answers 50 views

Error establishing a database connection(configuration)

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I hope you can help me to fix my problem. i am using wordpress for the first time, and i don't know why i am getting Error establishing a database connection knowing that i have created the file wp-config.php by myself then i provided the informations of my database. i cre

database, php, wordpress.org codepro 2 years 0 Answers 63 views

How performant is update_option relative to update_post_meta when updating on each post load?

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I've created an AJAX function that updates the views count of each post load. public function updateViewCount() { // ... $postID = $_REQUEST['post_id']; $key = 'post_views_count'; $count = get_post_meta($postID, $key, true); if ($count == '') { $count

cron, database, transient, wp-cron Arjen de Jong 2 years 0 Answers 52 views

WPDB Insert or if exists

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im new to wordpress and am working on a plugin, the database array gets send to it when i activate the plugin, but when i deactivate and activate it again it sets the array in the database again, but i want it to update it and not put it in again this is the array to database code

database, php Damian Bloemhof 2 years 0 Answers 54 views

Why do database examples sometimes finish with an add_option call?

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Take for an example this perfectly ordinary demo of adding a table. I'm assuming we've all seen examples like this before. function create_table() { global $wpdb; $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . 'table_name'; if( $wpdb->get_var( "show tables like '{$table_name}'" ) !=

database Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt 2 years 0 Answers 42 views

How much of my site can I recover from public_html?

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While exporting our site in order to migrate it to another hosting, I failed to import the database. This is necessary since all the posts and pages are kept only in the database, and I'm afraid the last database backup I have is not complete. How much of my site can I recover with only th

database, export, import, posts Nuna 2 years 0 Answers 47 views

Get error messages when $wpdb->insert() returns false?

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$wpdb->insert() returns false which I've learned means that the insert failed. Now, I would like to know why it fails with the insert. According to this ticket https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32315

database, errors, wpdb Peter Westerlund 2 years 0 Answers 72 views

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