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fourwhitesocks
fourwhitesocks

Reputation: 65

Is it OK if my Wordpress database table prefix does NOT contain an underscore?

I changed my WordPress database table for security purposes as I always do but upon finishing the installation I noticed that I omitted the underscore from my table prefix (zxq) - everything seems fine but is this OK?

So for example all my table names look like:

zxqlinks
zxqoptions
zxqpostmeta
etc......

Upvotes: 0

Views: 407

Answers (1)

janh
janh

Reputation: 2972

Yes, that's fine. The table prefix is just a string, and any plugin that handles non-"wp_" prefixes with an underscore will handle those without one as well.

I'd keep it to ascii, even though that might not be absolutely necessary from a technical standpoint, but it will get pretty annoying pretty quick when you're looking at the database and need to copy paste non-ascii chars all the time because the prefix contains characters that are hard to impossible to type on your keyboard layout.

Upvotes: 1

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