MySQL

Yoast is a helpful WordPress plugin, but I prefer to use the WordPress excerpt to generate a meta description. Here’s a quick bit of SQL to convert historical Yoast meta to the WordPress excerpt.

Recently, I needed to obtain a list of all WordPress pages or posts to which a Gravity Form had been published, in order to ensure that our caching plugin wasn’t interfering with them. SELECT * FROM `wp_posts` WHERE post_content LIKE ‘%[gravityform%’ AND post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_type IN( ‘page’, ‘post’ )

This complex SQL query can generate a complete table of your WordPress posts, plus a comma-separated list of both categories and tags.

Need to pull a list of your users from WordPress, but don’t want to fiddle around with test-driving a dozen plugins? You can use this quick SQL statement to obtain a complete export.