{"id":1166,"date":"2020-01-27T06:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.myresellerhome.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2022-02-28T06:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:41:37","slug":"how-to-change-the-wordpress-database-prefix-to-improve-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myresellerhome.com\/blog\/how-to-change-the-wordpress-database-prefix-to-improve-security\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the WordPress Database Prefix to Improve Security !!"},"content":{"rendered":"WordPress is a content management application that shops your website’s contents, posts, pages, subject matters, plugins, and themes in a database. A database is the storage of the website and incorporates every single record. While installing WordPress, humans tend to depart the prefix wp_, which is the default. This makes it the target for hackers and spammers and may run automated codes for sq. Injections. The safest way to protect your database is with the aid of changing the database prefix while setting up your WordPress web page. In this post, you’ll learn how you can make your database safe with the aid of changing the default database prefix.<\/span>\r\n
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Change Table Prefix in wp-config.php<\/b><\/h2>\r\nLogin to your cPanel and select File Manager.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\"How
cPanel >> File Manager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\npublic_html<\/b> and select <\/span>wp-config.php<\/b> >> Right-click wp-config.php and Click <\/span>Edit<\/b>.<\/span>\r\n
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Edit wp-config.php file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
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db prefix change<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\nRight here, the default wp_ has been changed to wp_ test_\r\n\r\n$table_prefix = ‘wp_test_’;\r\n\r\nPlease note that numbers, letters, and underscores can be used as a prefix.\r\n

Change all Database Tables Name<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nAfter changing the wp-config.php file, you have to alternate it in your database.\r\n\r\nFrom your CPanel, open phpMyAdmin<\/em> and manipulate the panel to make the right entry.\r\n
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cPaenl >> phpMyAdmin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\nIn the phpMyAdmin<\/em> control panel, there are 12 WordPress tables<\/em> from where you have to change the prefix manually.\r\n\r\nTo change the prefix manually would be time-consuming. Here, you will execute the below-mentioned query to change the entire default prefix to the latest one.\r\n\r\nExecute the below query in the SQL query window<\/em> to alternate the prefix of the database at once.\r\n
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