Title: Manually manipulating WP database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Manually manipulating WP database

 *  [nicks0r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicks0r/)
 * (@nicks0r)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-manipulating-wp-database/)
 * I have archives of old raw text that I would like to port into wordpress. I have
   searched on google a bit but can’t really come up with anything so here goes.
 * Basically I need some guidance on how to post this information to the wordpress
   database into specific categories, preferably using command line syntax. I have
   some programming experience so writing a script to accomplish this shouldn’t 
   be a problem.
 * I just need some feedback or to point me to somewhere that details the WP database
   hierarchy and ideally how to input into it using mysqladmin or something to that
   extent.
    Thanks

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 *  [theposterpreviouslyknownas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theposterpreviouslyknownas/)
 * (@theposterpreviouslyknownas)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-manipulating-wp-database/#post-513217)
 * take a look at how the install file inserts the first “hello wordpress” post —
   thats really the simplest and most useful thing to look at.

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