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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide
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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
October 2018
Beginner
300 pages
8h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the role of built-in database tables

The WordPress database structure is designed to store a minimum amount of data required for core features. Therefore, developers need to have a thorough understanding of the existing tables in order to use them effectively to build flexible websites. Let's take a look at the entity relationship diagram of the latest WordPress versions:

As may notice, all the existing tables don't have more than one or two relationships with other tables, and hence understanding and working with the database becomes a simpler task. Now, we are going to look at each database table with important columns, its ...

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