Question

Using a wordpress database we have tables like wp_options, and wp_postmeta.
These are grouped by primary key ID, then fields like ‘option_name’ and ‘option_value’;

So for example to find out three values I’d need to do 3 different queries.

Is there a proper way to do all of this with only one query?

Please shed some light on this and share the right way to do this.

SELECT option_value FROM bdlocal_wrdp1.wp_options WHERE option_name='siteurl';

SELECT option_value FROM bdlocal_wrdp1.wp_options WHERE option_name='blogname';

SELECT option_value FROM bdlocal_wrdp1.wp_options WHERE option_name='blogdescription';

(returns example.com, Example Blog, This is an example blog.)

Answer 1

SELECT option_name,
       option_value
  FROM bdlocal_wrdp1.wp_options
 WHERE option_name IN ('siteurl', 'blogname', 'blogdescription')

And after this query execution you’ll have 3 pairs of option_name + option_value values.