Title: Dumb question from non-programmer
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Dumb question from non-programmer

 *  [toddaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toddaway/)
 * (@toddaway)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dumb-question-from-non-programmer/)
 * I set up a wordpress blog on my page, and I kinda want to see under the hood 
   a little bit.
 * Where on my server…in what file…is the actual blog content stored?
 * I ftp’d every single file down to my computer and did a text search of every 
   file to find a specific string, and I cannot find any of the text that I entered
   in a blog post. So where is the post contents stored? Is it scrambled or something?

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dumb-question-from-non-programmer/#post-1401972)
 * its not in a file
 * Its in your mysql database
 *  [Micah Cooksey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micahcooksey/)
 * (@micahcooksey)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dumb-question-from-non-programmer/#post-1401975)
 * WP uses dynamic content, so when you type in the page, it pulls from the theme
   files, plugin files, core WP files, etc. The content is stored in your MySQL 
   Database. You can access it using phpMyAdmin in your webhosting cPanel. The content
   is stored under wp_posts in post_content.
 *  Thread Starter [toddaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toddaway/)
 * (@toddaway)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dumb-question-from-non-programmer/#post-1402053)
 * ok, thanks! Is there a magic cookie I can eat to make me an expert at MySQL stuff?
 *  [Micah Cooksey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micahcooksey/)
 * (@micahcooksey)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dumb-question-from-non-programmer/#post-1402123)
 * No, but you can read this (and eat a cookie for good measure): [http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description](http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description)

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