Unable to change post content through phpMyAdmin

  • Resolved zippy1970

    (@zippy1970)


    1 year, 6 months ago

    I’m trying to correct a few typos in a post and want to do that directly in the database. Reason being that if I would do that in WordPress, it changes the post’s modified date and the post moves from its original date to the current date (so in my theme, it’s displayed as if it was posted today).

    I noted the post ID in WordPress, opened the wp_posts table in phpMyAdmin, look up the post with the same ID, verify it’s post_status is set to “publish” and edit the post_content field. Save it by clicking “Go” at the bottom (while the drop down is set to “Save”).

    When I look at the page in a browser, nothing has changed. Oddly enough, on my site’s home page (where it displays the first few lines of every post) the changes are visible. Just not on the page itself.

    It’s not browser caching (tried different browsers, cleared the cache, etc). WordPress is not using a cache plugin, nor is my server.

    So what could be wrong?

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  • Thread Starter zippy1970

    (@zippy1970)

    I’ve been trying to tackle this problem all morning and wouldn’t you know it, a few minutes after I post a question about it, I found what’s causing this.

    The theme uses Elementor (a post editor). Apparently, Elementor stores a copy of the post in a different table and that copy is used by the theme to display the post. But on the front page, the theme uses the copy from the wp_posts table.

    So I had to edit it also in the Elementor version.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by zippy1970.
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