Transient are not always deleted when they expire, and that makes them unpredictable and sometimes a pain. Whenever I work with transients, I add some kind of functionality to delete the transients when something happens, like I delete transients when publishing posts or updating them if the transient was meant to keep data related to … Read more
Use the global $wpdb for example $myrows = $wpdb->get_results( “insert sql here”);
Unfortunately there is no way to do this. In the end it is nothing more but a meta field. It can come from the current theme, and old theme that doesn’t even exist any more or a plugin. Since 4.4.0 it can even be anything – it doesn’t even need to be a filename. Sorry … Read more
Yes, we can use existing tables in WordPress for storing the values. Post meta fields are stored in the {$wpdb->prefix}_postmeta table (depending on the table prefix; wp_postmeta by default). If the meta key “like_count” is already present in the table along with the post ID then update_post_meta() will update this, and otherwise this function will … Read more
The MySQL extension: Is not under active development Is officially [deprecated][1] as of PHP 5.5 (released June 2013). Has been removed entirely as of PHP 7.0 (released December 2015) Lacks an OO interface Doesn’t support: Non-blocking, asynchronous queries [Prepared statements][2] or parameterized queries Stored procedures Multiple Statements Transactions The “new” password authentication method (on by … Read more
WP_Error kind of errors are a poor substitution for exception (something that php 4 didn’t have IIRC), they are not actual software errors, and are not being kept in any log if the developer do not write code for it.
Not a hard task at the end. I’ve managed to do it in two chunks with UPDATE wp_options SET autoload = ‘no’ WHERE option_name LIKE ‘category%’; and UPDATE wp_options SET autoload = ‘no’ WHERE option_name LIKE ‘_category%’;
Just look for an empty user_activation_key in users-table. If is empty, user is active. If is filled, user is inactive.
Try this one. This is connection object created to use in wordpress $mydb = new wpdb( ‘username’, ‘password’, ‘my_database’, ‘localhost’ ); and if it is way that you want to go check in codex $wpdb function ‘select’ to select database when do queries. Hope it help.
I don’t see any reason to login as root if you only need the one database… Have you tried logging in to phpMyAdmin as the user with the same credentials as your WordPress installation? user: bn_wordpress pass: 0cca6aaab5 port: 3306 We could avoid phpMyAdmin all together… From the command line you can dump the database … Read more