Comments on: The Safe Way to Change your WordPress Database Table Prefix

By: Barebottom Farm

Barebottom Farm — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:57:00 +0000

This is wonderful! Thank you so much for this thorough explanation! It made me feel way more comfortable with this process. I tried several times to do it other ways and ended up having a website down for many hours as I figured out how to restore it. Thanks again!

By: No Win No Fee

No Win No Fee — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:39:00 +0000

Fantastic, made me feel a little safer after this….nice to see it was easier than doing that dull manual stuff which i tried, Christ that was painful….well done for this post.

By: John

John — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:14:00 +0000

You can download the plugin to your computer, then go the plugin page at your wordpress website and click on the Upload button. If you do it this way, you must upload the file in zip format (as it would say on your wordpress plugin page). Then click install to activate the plugin.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:32:00 +0000

Make sure that you have downloaded the correct version of the plugin and upload to the plugins folder. Double check the permission. It should show up in the plugins list. Do you mind sharing how you create the new tables manually?

By: Techlunatic

Techlunatic — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:24:00 +0000

Cannot find the table rename plugin, i also tried uploading the downloaded plugin file via ftp, but it does not show up in the plugins list! then i did the renaming of the tables manually and as mentioned, there were double the number of tables, all fine till here….then i changed the wp-config.php file from ‘wp_’ to my ‘newName_’ but the site shows errors regarding widgets and unwanted widgets get activated.
PS – my wp-config file is outside the root folder for security reasons, is this a problem here?

By: Techlunatic

Techlunatic — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:19:00 +0000

Thank you for the detailed help!!!!

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