{"id":714,"date":"2020-09-07T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2020-09-12T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T15:52:06","slug":"how-to-know-which-database-am-i-using-for-my-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/how-to-know-which-database-am-i-using-for-my-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to know which database am I using for my WordPress site?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To know which database you’re using for your WordPress site – you will start from the cPanel, if you’re not sure on how to login to your cPanel, please follow the article as here – How to open cPanel for your website?<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Locate “File Manager” under the “Files” section at the very top of your cPanel area:
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  2. Under File Manager, locate “public_html” and double click on it to open it. You can click on it from either of the sides as shown in the image below:
    \n\"\"If the domain of whose database you want to know is not a primary domain but an addon, then instead of opening “public_html” open the folder with its name.<\/li>\n
  3. Under “public_html” locate “wp-config”, select it and then click on “Edit” from the top navigation options. (You can also directly click on “View” instead of edit and skip to step 5 to know your database name)
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  4. You’ll see the following dialog box – click on “Edit” to proceed further
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  5. In the following page, you’ll see something like below, it includes all your critical configurations information locate “DB_NAME” which includes your database name. See the image below for all the key details:
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  6. Congratulations! You have identified the name of the database you’re using.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    To know which database you’re using for your WordPress site – you will start from the cPanel, if you’re not sure on how to login to your cPanel, please follow the article as here – How to open cPanel for your website? Locate “File Manager” under the “Files” section at the very top of your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-babal-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babal.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}