{"id":89376,"date":"2012-07-26T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=89376"},"modified":"2022-03-14T23:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T23:49:26","slug":"wordpress-database-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-database-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Your WordPress Database Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever had the need to find the name of your WordPress database, then there\u2019s an easy way to do that \u2013 simply look for it in your <strong>wp-config.php file located in the root folder of your WordPress install<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Accessing Your WP-Config.php File<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you are doing something where you need the name of your database, then I\u2019m assuming you have access to your server.<\/p>\n<p>Simply go to the main folder of your WordPress install and locate the file called <strong>wp-config.php<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89380\" title=\"finding-wp-config-file\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/finding-wp-config-file.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"599\" height=\"551\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Open that file by clicking \u201cView\u201d or \u201cEdit\u201d or however your system lets you see the file.<\/p>\n<p>Once your file is open, near the top after some introductory information, you should be able to spot the database name pretty clearly. It should look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89381\" title=\"wordpress-database-name\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/wordpress-database-name.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"599\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This easy trick will give you your database name in under a minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":206743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[1004],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-89376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-database"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206745,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89376\/revisions\/206745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89376"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=89376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}