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Mauricio Gelves - WordPress Database: What’s behind those 12 tables - WordCamp Athens 2016

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Transcript

  1. WordPress Database: What’s behind those 12 tables? Mauricio Gelves |

    @maugelves

  2. Do you know this Masterpiece?

  3. None
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  6. A love story

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  8. Set of columns Data types Indexes The table anatomy

  9. Table rows

  10. I’m Rebel!

  11. Normalization

  12. Process to avoid: • Data redundancy • Unnecessary updates •

    Data integrity problems
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  18. WordPress code of conduct:
 No political jokes are allowed

  19. UPDATE tbl_students SET president = '<new president name>' WHERE president

    = 'Prokopis Pavlopoulos' On every change:

  20. Normalized tables: FK’s (Foreign Keys)

  21. ¿Is WordPress Rebel?

  22. • wp-posts • wp-term-taxonomy

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  26. 33,3333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333

    333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333…%

  27. ¿Why WordPress powers 26% of all websites?

  28. ES FLEXIBLE

  29. KEY => VALUE

  30. wp_posts WordPress’ Heart.

  31. wp_posts

  32. ¿Where’s the rest of the information?

  33. Meta Tables wp_posts => wp_postmeta wp_users => wp_usermeta wp_comments =>

    wp_commentmeta wp_terms => wp_termmeta

  34. KEY VALUE => wp_posts

  35. KEY VALUE => Usuarios

  36. SHE ’S ORGANIZED

  37. KEY VALUE => wp_options

  38. SHE’S ADAPTABLE

  39. Taxonomies

  40. Taxonomías Simple terms Which taxonomy has?

  41. Es muy fácil comunicarse con ella: Diapositiva: una mujer con

    un teléfono It’s easy to talk to her

  42. SQL Structured Query Language

  43. Estructura de consulta: Which column/s? Which table/s? Should we filter

    the search?

  44. ¿Do we have to know SQL to work with WordPress?

  45. WordPress Functions:

  46. What if we need Meta values?

  47. WordPress Functions:

  48. and for more complex searches?

  49. WP_Query

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  53. CUSTOM TABLES How and why?

  54. Why Custom Tables?: • Efficiency (Inner joins) • Efficiency (calculated

    fields) • Space (uncompleted fields) • Data security

  55. How to create a Custom Tables?: • Create it on

    plugin/theme activation
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  57. How to create a Custom Tables?: • Create it on

    plugin/theme activation • UI implementation with WP_List class
  58. None

  59. http://wpengineer.com/2426/wp_list_table-a-step-by-step-guide/

  60. Because of this and more I’m in love with the

    WordPress database.

  61. Thank you! @maugelves