Understanding How WordPress uses MySQL

Understanding how WordPress uses MySQL

WordPress is arguably the most popular content management software (CMS) available. The fact that WordPress is free, easy-to-use and has a tremendous amount of support available makes it an ideal CMS for creating and managing a website or blog.

While WordPress is designed to be easy-to-use, it also has enough complexity that allows you to create about anything for your website. For the average user, however, you won’t need to manage this complexity as there are plugins and templates to do most of the work for you. For others, you may want to look at what WordPress has to offer.

A WordPress site can be typically divided into two segments:

  1. The general look and feel of a WordPress website generated by logic and templates.
  2. A MySQL database in which all content powering the website is stored.

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