08-28-10
Setting up wp-config.php | Digging into WordPress
Easily, the most important file in your WordPress installation is thewp-config.php file. It serves as your site’s base configuration file, controlling key aspects of WordPress’ functionality and enabling WordPress to do mission-critical stuff like connect to the database. Without wp-config.php, WordPress simply won’t work. So whenever you install WordPress, one of the first things to do is pimp your wp-config.php.
And it’s pretty easy too – just get your database credentials in place and you’re done. The other settings available in the wp-config.php file will work just fine using the default values, but there are some cool things you can do to customize functionality, tighten security, and improve performance. Once you get the basics of wp-config.php, you can really pimp it out to do some awesome stuff. We’ll break this down into four basic parts:
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