{"id":561,"date":"2021-01-14T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mklasen.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:55:28","slug":"fix-for-missing-spam-column-in-wp_users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mklasen.com\/fix-for-missing-spam-column-in-wp_users\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix for missing spam column in wp_users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While converting a website from single to multisite I bumped into an issue while creating accounts. When looking into the logs I noticed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WordPress database error Unknown column &#8216;spam&#8217; in &#8216;field list&#8217; for query INSERT INTO <code>wp_users<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue is clear, i&#8217;m missing the &#8216;spam&#8217; column in wp_users. Since i&#8217;m running this environment in Docker and I didn&#8217;t have easy database access available I wrote a wp-cli command fixing this issue;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/mklasen\/3b266a0e9b4081272b703eca42bd3578.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mklasen.com\/fix-for-missing-spam-column-in-wp_users\/#comment-539\">Thanks to RJT<\/a> for improving the script!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While converting a website from single to multisite I bumped into an issue while creating accounts. When looking into the logs I noticed: WordPress database error Unknown column &#8216;spam&#8217; in &#8216;field list&#8217; for query INSERT INTO wp_users The issue is clear, i&#8217;m missing the &#8216;spam&#8217; column in wp_users. 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