Title: WP / Woocommerce database prefix error
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# WP / Woocommerce database prefix error

 *  [chriskuiper1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriskuiper1/)
 * (@chriskuiper1)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-woocommerce-database-prefix-error/)
 * I took me a day to find out why all woocommerce database tables could not be 
   found. They were created in the database but under a “xxxxx_” prefix – for security
   reasons – rather then the default “wp_”. The theme had lots of errors and didn’t
   work properly. How is it possible that Woocommerce doesn’t support this? I think
   you guys should change this.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  [Caleb Burks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icaleb/)
 * (@icaleb)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-woocommerce-database-prefix-error/#post-7683889)
 * WooCommerce does support custom database prefixes. Is it set up correctly in 
   your config file?
 * Must have something incorrectly configured, or another plugin/theme interferring.

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## Tags

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

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Caleb Burks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icaleb/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-woocommerce-database-prefix-error/#post-7683889)
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