Since I am using version control with GIT, I have set up different environments for my current WordPress/Magento-married project. For this project, I did not want to continue “cowboy coding”, so I set up a remote staging / testing / development site and multiple local development sites. Each site has its own purpose and needs its own MySQL database. So I had to handle different database connections in my WordPress installations. Well, I could work with only one DB,

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