Title: Change Database to phpMyAdmin
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Change Database to phpMyAdmin

 *  [Travis Andersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travis-andersen/)
 * (@travis-andersen)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-database-to-phpmyadmin/)
 * Hi, I am wanting to change the standard database that wp-members (inside the 
   wordpress files “Users”) set’s up. I am wanting to use phpMyAdmin, as my database
   because I can back it up easily, I can create multiple linking tables, and the
   amount of content that will be in the tables will be a lots. I’m not sure if 
   there is an easy way to do this? Any help will be great. My experience with programming
   is minimal.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-database-to-phpmyadmin/#post-6077740)
 * Let’s start with this:
 * > My experience with programming is minimal.
 * If that’s the case, stop right there and don’t change anything.
 * > I am wanting to change the standard database that wp-members (inside the wordpress
   > files “Users”) set’s up.
 * “users” is not a file; it’s a table and it’s not created by WP-Members but by
   WP. WP-Members does not set up a database nor any database tables. It uses the
   WP database tables that are already there. In more technical jargon, it uses 
   [the WP database schema](https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description).
 * >  I am wanting to use phpMyAdmin, as my database because I can back it up easily,
   > I can create multiple linking tables, and the amount of content that will be
   > in the tables will be a lots.
 * phpMyAdmin is not a database. It is a database management tool for your MySQL
   database.
 * You can use phpMyAdmin to manage your WP database. However, unless you know what
   your are doing, I would limit this to creating backups. For the plugin’s purposes(
   or any purpose, really), there is no need to be creating additional tables.
 * The WP tables that are already there are already linked. The plugin uses the 
   wp_users and wp_usermeta tables. These are linked in a one-to-many relationship,
   with wp_users storing basic data (username, email, password, user ID) and wp_usermeta
   storing any custom data linked to the user ID (the primary key for the user from
   wp_users).
 * You can’t change this without breaking WordPress. While you could add to it with
   some programming know-how, you’ve already mentioned that your skills in that 
   area are minimal.
 *  Thread Starter [Travis Andersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travis-andersen/)
 * (@travis-andersen)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-database-to-phpmyadmin/#post-6077743)
 * Hi Chad,
 * Thanks for the reply, What you have said makes sense. I will look into the wp
   database schema.
 * Thanks again for the help

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## Tags

 * [change](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/change/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [phpmyadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpmyadmin/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Travis Andersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travis-andersen/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-database-to-phpmyadmin/#post-6077743)
 * Status: not resolved