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MySQL Database User: Which Privileges are needed?

April 5, 2022 by IT Nursery

The short installation instruction for WordPress (“5 Minutes”) state that: Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it. While setting up a new blog professionally I was wondering how that maps to what the MySQL database user privileges/permissions configuration … Read more

Using wpdb to connect to a separate database

April 4, 2022 by IT Nursery

I want to connect wpdb to another database. How do I create the instance and pass it the database name/username/password? Thanks Yes it’s possible. The wpdb object can be used to access any database and query any table. Absolutely no need to be WordPress related, which is very interesting. The benefit is the ability to … Read more