• Wordpress wp_posts SQL Hack

    July 17th, 2009

    Speeding up Wordpress by deleting all revisions.

    The Wordpress db keeps all revisions.  If you have a large database (say 100,000 records) you can speed it up by deleting the revisions. The code for that is:

    DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

    Your actual wp_posts table will have a name like wp_xd7tjs_posts. This is to improve Wordpress security. If your wp_posts is named wp_xd7tjs_posts then the code is:

    DELETE FROM wp_xd7tjs_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

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