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WordPress sites are powered by their database and learning how it works gives you the power to edit and control your site data and settings with SQL queries

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A WordPress customer database enables you to keep track of client information efficiently. In this article, we'll teach you how to create your own!

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The following is a post by Jason Witt. Here Jason shares a method for doing something you might assu...

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