Plugin info

Total downloads: 42,242
Active installs: 6,000
Total reviews: 14
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 3 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 6/16/2025 (198 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 1/12/2022 (3 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.3
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.4.7
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 198 days ago • 14 reviews

42/100

Is SQL Buddy – Database Management Made Easy abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 198 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.3
Tested up to: 6.4.7
Requires PHP: 5.6

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Description

⚠️ WARNING

SQL Buddy is no longer actively maintained.

This software is still free to use under the license provided, but users should be aware that it is not currently maintained. No additional releases, including security releases, will be made available.

Your one-stop solution for WordPress database management. Edit your table data with a clean and straightforward user interface.

SQL Buddy is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to manage your database table contents right from your WordPress dashboard.

The Dashboard screen gives you a detailed overview of all your WordPress tables, along with useful data like the number of records, and the size of the table.

The Tables screen allows you to search for a specific table, or view the table rows. Clicking on a row presents options to edit and save the column values, or delete the row. You are also able to control which table columns to display, as well as options to filter the table data.

Each screen has pagination controls for navigating through a large number of tables or rows.

Features

  • View a list of all your database tables, including details like number of records, data usage, and index usage per table.
  • Navigate through table records quickly, or search for specific tables by name.
  • Filter table records using custom query conditions
  • Choose which table columns to display on a per-table basis
  • View the full contents of a single table record with one click.
  • Easily edit the record contents or delete a table record

Why Use a Database Management Plugin?

While not common, there are often situations where you might need to make changes to your WordPress database. Perhaps you’ve moved from a staging environment to live, and you need to update your site URL, or you need to clean up some data left behind by a deleted plugin. Whatever the reason, a solid solution for browsing and editing your WordPress database is a vital tool in any site owner’s belt.

You could use the database management tool your web host provides, which is typically based on PHPMyAdmin, but the user interface is clumsy and not all that intuitive. You could try an application like Navicat, SQLyog, or TablePlus, but these require you to know your database access credentials.

SQL Buddy is the WordPress plugin that gives you the ability to manage your database directly from your WordPress dashboard, without needing to worry about database credentials, installing third-party applications, or navigating a confusing user interface.

Built by WordPress Database Experts

We’re Delicious Brains, the team behind WP Migrate DB and WP Migrate DB Pro. For the last 15 years, we’ve helped WordPress developers migrate their database, site files and themes, and plugins between multiple different environments. We pride ourselves on being WordPress database experts, so you don’t have to be.

SQL Buddy is everything we require from a WordPress database management plugin. A beautiful, intuitive interface, coupled with straightforward yet powerful features.

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit Plugins > Add New
  2. Search for “SQL Buddy”
  3. Install and Activate SQL Buddy from your Plugins page
  4. Click on SQL Buddy in the “Tools” menu item, to manage your database

Frequently Asked Questions

What support is provided?

Limited free support is provided through the WordPress.org support forums

Review feed

Jack - BNFW
1/18/2022

Easy to use plugin by a trusted developer

I've used a couple of manage-your-database-inside-the-WordPress-dashboard type plugins before. They're really handy for things like changing the admin email when the previous admin has long since disappeared and you can't confirm the email address for the change. Delighted to see this plugin from the Delicious Brains team - they're plugins are superb, reliable, and trustworthy - exactly what you want when you need a plugin to modify your database. The plugin is simple and really easy to use. No nonsense. Will add this plugin to my favourites.
Gilbert Pellegrom
1/18/2022

Easy, fast, reliable

This is an excellent plugin if you need quick access to the database to make small changes when developing your WordPress site. The UI is snappy and very easy to use. Normally I'd be concerned with security with a plugin like this, but I can't think of a team I trust more than Delicious Brains to build a secure and easy-to-use database plugin for WordPress. They know their stuff.
Тихомир Парушев
2/15/2022

Very nice!

Very nice!
flowdee
5/31/2022

Awesome!

Simple but awesome! I love your UI
Ben Meredith
10/3/2022

Simple and powerful

This plugin performs a crucial service missing from WordPress itself: the ability to visualize the database, and make changes. I can't stress enough that this plugin is not for folks who have are beginners or otherwise not familiar with WordPess databases, but for those who are, this plugin can shave hours off of troubleshooting problems by letting you see directly into the data.

Screenshots

  1. Dashboard screen

    Dashboard screen

  2. Tables screen

    Tables screen

  3. Edit table row screen

    Edit table row screen

Changelog

1.0.0

Initial release