Title: Phpmyadmin Help Please!!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Phpmyadmin Help Please!!

 *  [domo-world](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domo-world/)
 * (@domo-world)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpmyadmin-help-please/)
 * Hey forum,
 * I need your help. I want to update to the new version of wordpress but I want
   to backup my data bases first. So the first thing I tried to do is download the
   plugin phpmyadmin so that I can back it up. The only problem is that it is not
   showing up in my plugins in my admin panel.
 * This is what I’m doing. I’m downloading phpmyadmin 3.2.4 from the website (the
   English version in a .zip file) from there I extract it onto my computer. I use
   godaddy so I went there and used their FTP client to transfer the phpmyadmin 
   i just donwloaded into the wp-contents/plugin folder. Then I go into my admin
   panel on wordpress to activate the plugin but I dont see it. The only plugins
   I see are the ask me comment one an the hello, dolly.
 * Do i need to download a version of phpmyadmin that is compatible with my version
   of wordpress? Also I tried using the export command from wordpress but I just
   get a big jumbo of text and random symbols but my blogs are in there but its 
   just mushed up with a bunch of poop.
 * I would really like to backup my database and I would like some help before I
   erase everything lol. Thank you very much.
 * – Khang

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpmyadmin-help-please/#post-1312365)
 * PhpMyAdmin isn’t a plugin. It’s an database management application that’s installed
   on a server. So you need to contact your hosting provider and ask them about 
   access to PhpMyAdmin.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpmyadmin-help-please/#post-1312365)
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