Creating custom tables
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Description
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- Content type (Online Workshop, Lesson, Course, Tutorial, or Lesson Plan): Lesson
- Content title: Creating custom tables
- Topic description: Creating, versioning, updating schema, and deleting a custom database table.
- Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer
- Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Intermediate
Prerequisites
It is assumed that the learner has already completed the following lessons:
- Beginner WordPress developer
- Modules 1 - 6
Learning Objectives
- Explain why a plugin developer might need a custom database table
- Describe the process of creating a custom database table
Related Resources and Other Notes
- https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/creating-tables-with-plugins/
- https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/custom-database-tables/
Automation Code
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked WordPress developer documentation and the existing custom database tables tutorial, then review the listed Beginner WordPress developer prerequisites. The lesson is done when it explains why plugin developers need custom tables and covers creating, versioning, updating, and deleting a table schema.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100