Find your WordPress website database name

Definitions

A WordPress database name is a unique identifier for the database that stores all the content, settings, and user information for your WordPress website.

Before you start

✅ All active and operational WordPress websites have a database.

⚠️ Knowing your database name is useful for database management or restoring it from backups.

ℹ️ Database details, including database names, are unique to each website.

Step by step

1. Log in to your hosting control panel

2. Click on the File Manager button

3. Double click on the domains folder

4. Find your website folder and double click on it

5. Double click on the public_html folder

6. Find the wp-config.php file

7. Right click on the wp-config.php file, select Edit from the dropdown

8. Scroll and find the snippet section called:

/** The name of the database for WordPress */

9. Your database name is under this section. For example, our database name is: cloudhelpcenter_77

/** The name of the database for WordPress */ define( 'DB_NAME', 'cloudhelpcenter_77' );

Here is a visual example of what the snippet section looks like inside of our wp-config.php file: