Title: WordPress database error Unknown column ‘insertionMethod’
Last modified: April 5, 2025

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# WordPress database error Unknown column ‘insertionMethod’

 *  [delaitec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delaitec/)
 * (@delaitec)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-insertionmethod/)
 * Hello.
 * My website is staying at Hostgator in a CPANEL
 * Checking my WordPress hosting I realized that there were many backups of the 
   databases created at the root of the hosting “before the public_html folder”.
 * At the same time as these backups “I didn’t ask” were created, there was also
   a “error_log” file that contained the error below:
   Does anyone know how to say
   this, can be someone trying to access the site from the outside? or some plugin
   that may have caused this error.
 * I don’t know if you have a relationship with the backups, but as time they beat,
   it may be related.
 * Can anyone help me?
 *     ```wp-block-code
       [04-Apr-2025 16:44:08 UTC] WordPress database error Unknown column 'insertionMethod' in 'where clause' for query SELECT * FROM tst_xyz_ips_short_code WHERE insertionMethod = 1 AND status = 1 made by include('phar:///usr/local/bin/wp/php/boot-phar.php'), include('phar:///usr/local/bin/wp/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/php/wp-cli.php'), WP_CLI\bootstrap, WP_CLI\Bootstrap\LaunchRunner->process, WP_CLI\Runner->start, WP_CLI\Runner->load_wordpress, require('wp-settings.php'), include_once('/plugins/insert-php-code-snippet/insert-php-code-snippet.php'), require('/plugins/insert-php-code-snippet/shortcode-handler.php')
       ```
   

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-insertionmethod/#post-18401182)
 * > At the same time as these backups “I didn’t ask” were created,
 * Can you give the full file name of one of these backups? That could give a clue
   as to what created these backups.
 * Because of the location where the backup files are stored, my suspicion is that
   either cPanel itself (built-in cPanel backup feature) or a cPanel-provided tool(
   eg WordPress Toolkit, Softaculous, Fantastico, etc) created these backups… and
   not a WordPress backup plugin (note that WordPress itself has no backup feature).
 * > … there was also a “error_log” file that contained the error below:
 * > Does anyone know how to say this, can be someone trying to access the site 
   > from the outside? or some plugin that may have caused this error.
 * I don’t believe the error and the backups are related.
 * As for the error, that’s from the **“Insert PHP Code Snippet”** plugin, and a
   similar issue was reported (along with a suggested fix from the plugin’s author)
   here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-from-ver-1-4/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-from-ver-1-4/)
 * If the suggested fix doesn’t work for you, I’ll recommend making a new post in
   the plugin’s own support forum so its author and user community can assist you:
   [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/insert-php-code-snippet/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/insert-php-code-snippet/)
 * Good luck!
 *  Thread Starter [delaitec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delaitec/)
 * (@delaitec)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-insertionmethod/#post-18401199)
 * Hello [@gappiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * The name of the file are: 
   cpuser_test.184338444958.sql.gzThis is a backup of
   my site database.And the file are saved on cpanel root: (/home/cpuser/) Not on
   the site folder, or public_html folder, is on main root.
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-insertionmethod/#post-18401222)
 * WordPress does not create any backups. Plugins that do this usually create them
   within the WordPress directory. Based on the file names you described, I would
   guess that these backups are created via the server maintenance software cPanel
   that you use. Check its manual to see if and how backups are created there.

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