What is the minimum access needed for word press page to access the database

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  bthimble · Member · Oct 25, 2022 at 12:07 am

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  What is the minimum access users need for a word press page to access the database?

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  bthimble · Member · Oct 25, 2022 at 12:12 am

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  Trying to figure out what permissions our service account needs to have.
  What is the minimum access needed for a wordpress page to access the database?

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 25, 2022 at 12:23 am

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  Hi! If your site is hosted here on our services, we take care of all of the permissions and whatnot for you. I couldn’t tell you offhand exactly what they are, because we have a security/sysops team that manages that.

  If you’re using your own WordPress installation that’s not hosted here with us, perhaps this article on hardening WordPress will help? It goes over permissions:
  https://wordpress.org/support/article/hardening-wordpress/

  If you need more help, with setting up your own copy of the free software, I’d recommend posting over at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ .

  Or you’d be welcome to host here with us. More details here:
  https://wordpress.com/go/website-building/wordpress-com-vs-wordpress-org/

  Cheers!