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Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a custom table in WordPress or why you would ever want or need to? WordPress comes with many different ways to store data out-of-the-box. Luckily for us, WordPress is flexible enough that we aren’t forced to shoehorn our every need into the ready-made solutions that come with it.
As a PHP application that depends on MySQL, we also have the option of creating our own tables in the database to meet our needs more precisely. Sometimes what might be a perfect solution for the MVP or 1.0 might not be the right choice as the software evolves.
In this article, we’ll walk through the process of creating a custom table, as well as an upgrade routine to boot.