How Do I Change My Localhost WordPress Database?

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that enables you to create a website or blog from scratch, or to improve an existing website. To manage your WordPress website, you need to create a database to store your website’s content.

You can change your localhost WordPress database using the following steps.

First, open your WordPress website in your web browser.

Next, click the “Admin” tab at the top of the page.

Under “Database,” click the “Create” button.

In the “Name” field, type a name for your new database.

In the “Table Prefix” field, type a prefix for the table names in your new database.

In the “Table Suffix” field, type a suffix for the table names in your new database.

In the “Type” field, select “MySQL.”

In the “Host” field, type the IP address or hostname of your WordPress website.

In the “Port” field, type the MySQL port number.

In the “Username” field, type your WordPress username.

In the “Password” field, type your WordPress password.

Click the “Create” button.

Your new database will be created.

To change the WordPress database on your localhost server, open your MySQL database server in your favorite web browser, and use the following commands to connect to the WordPress database.

mysql -u root -p

Update the WordPress database using the following commands.

CREATE DATABASE WordPress;

USE WordPress;

exit;

Next, change the name of the WordPress database using the following command.

CHANGE DATABASE WordPress NAME ‘new_db_name';

Finally, exit the MySQL database server using the following command.