{"id":383,"date":"2017-02-02T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T03:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:21:23","slug":"secret-wordpress-options-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/secret-wordpress-options-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret WordPress Options Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK, so maybe its not a complete secret, but after around 10 years of running WordPress I only just found out about it. Here it is. After you've logged in as admin, go to the following URL. i.e. type options.php into the URL of your site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>https:&#47;&#47;yourdomain.com\/wp-admin\/options.php<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously you have to be logged in as admin. This basically gives you access to the wp_options table without having to go to a separate database management app, or do some mysql command line ninja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who knew? Its not on a menu, probably to hide it from fat fingers, but hey, I wish I'd known about this earlier. Would have saved me a few hours over the course of my work life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so maybe its not a complete secret, but after around 10 years of running WordPress I only just found out about it. Here it is. After you've logged in as admin, go to the following URL. i.e. type options.php into the URL of your site: Obviously you have to be logged in as admin. &#8230; <a title=\"Secret WordPress Options Page\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/secret-wordpress-options-page\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Secret WordPress Options Page\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}