#wordpress database optimization

For modern web developers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a powerful tool that enhances productivity and streamlines the coding process. If you’re focused on JavaScript development, setting up VS Code properly is crucial for an efficient workflow.

Why Choose VS Code? VS Code offers robust features, including an integrated terminal, version control, and extensive extensions. Its flexibility makes it ideal for JavaScript projects, whether you’re working on small scripts or large applications.

Setup Steps

Install VS Code: Download and install the latest version from the official website.

Configure Extensions: Enhance your JavaScript development experience with extensions like Prettier for code formatting and ESLint for code quality.

Customize Your Environment: Adjust settings and themes to suit your preferences. Configure the integrated terminal for seamless command-line access.

If you want to manage your content in a proper manner, then WordPress is one of the best options. WordPress database not only stores your website content like pages, blog posts, comments but also stores theme settings, website settings, and plugin settings. As we all know, if we want to maintain and increase our rank in search engine pages, then we need to update our website on a regular basis. However, updating your website regularly means growth in the database, and (a) large database affects the performance of your site as it takes time to search and load required data. To overcome this issue Wordpress database optimization is a very important thing.

 WordPress database

 WordPress creates database structure at the time of installation. Currently, WordPress database has 12 core tables which may or may not change in the future versions of the database. Apart from these core tables, your database contains manually created tables, or tables created due to plugin and theme installation. Let’s have a quick look on core tables and (the) type of data they store;

·         Comments meta information belongs to wp_commentmeta table.

·         Comments belong to the wp_comments table.

·         blogroll links belong to the wp_links table.

·         Defined options in admin settings belong to the wp_options table.

·         Meta information of post belongs to the wp_postmeta table.

·         Data of pages, posts and custom posts belong to the wp_posts table.

·         Post categories, links and post tags belong to the wp_terms table.

·         Metadata of terms belong to the wp_usermsmeta table.

·         Post, categories and tag association and links and links categories association data belongs to the wp_term_relationships table.

·         Taxonomy description belongs to wp_term_taxonomy table.

·         User meta information belongs to wp_usermeta table.

·         User’s data belongs to the wp_users table.

WordPress Data optimization

As of now, we know the importance of database optimization. Let’s explore the methods for WordPress data optimization. There are three methods to optimize and manage database - phpMyAdmin is a well-known method, second is using a plugin, and third is optimizing your data with code. Let’s gather information about how these methods work one by one.

 Optimizing database with code or with phpMyAdmin may be very effective methods but many people don’t find it easy to play around code, or original database structure. For those people, using plugins for database optimization is a great option. When you are using a plugin for your work, all you have to do is install that plugin, and it will do your work for you. Recommended plugins for optimization are WP-Optimize and Adminer. Once you install these plugins, it will work on regular cleanups.