[wp-hackers] best way to reset the database

Haluk Karamete halukkaramete at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 04:01:27 UTC 2012


any pointers where I can get a head start with your idea?
I'm new to PHP. and I cannot spend too much time getting this from ground
up.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> One way you could handle this is by installing workpress, set up all
> the settings that you need and just backup the table and restore it.
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> You should be able to write a php script to delete and restore the
> database.
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm working with a fresh install programmatically.
> >
> > I create taxonomies, terms, posts, on the fly without the dashboard.
> It's a
> > process for me with lots of trials and errors.
> > Many times, I want to start with a fresh slate.
> >
> > That's where the question is formed. What's the most effective way to
> bring
> > the wp to the starting ( well, almost starting ) phase, programmatically?
> >
> > If I drop the database with a mysql statement, wp would create the tables
> > and that would give me a fresh slate but that would also blow the
> bloginfo
> > and admin user etc.
> >
> > All I care is to clean the wp_post, post_meta, where terms and taxonomies
> > stored. no need to clean the options table.
> > If I delete the records, that does not help cause then my IDs won't start
> > from 0.
> >
> > What's a good way to handle this?
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