Title: Table prefix
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Table prefix

 *  [leemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemon/)
 * (@leemon)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-prefix-3/)
 * Hi,
 * Just a question. Is there a reason why the plugin’s table names are not prefixed
   with the configured prefix in the wp-config.php file? I have two WP sites on 
   a host that only allows one database and both are sharing the same plugin data.
   Is there any problem with this?
 * Thanks
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 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-prefix-3/#post-7143602)
 * Hi!
 * In terms of plugin functionality there is no reason to use table prefix. If you
   want to track illegal activity on all of your sites within one database, you,
   obviously, want to track it identically. If one site has IP blocked why not to
   have the same IP is blocked on the second site or other sites which are sharing
   one database.
    Hardly ever someone needs to have a different IP Access Lists 
   for different sites in one database. If so, this is an issue. One issue may appears
   if you are making backups using software which is rely on table prefix. _In this
   case your IP Access Lists may not be backed up._ Anyway, I am only kind of concerned
   about backups of ACL.
 *  Thread Starter [leemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemon/)
 * (@leemon)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-prefix-3/#post-7143604)
 * Oh, I see. Thanks!

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