When setting up a WordPress site on cPanel, one of the key steps is creating a MySQL database and assigning the necessary privileges to the user that will interact with that database. Properly configuring the database user permissions ensures that WordPress has the correct access to perform essential tasks such as reading, writing, and modifying content in the database.
In this article, we will walk you through the necessary database user privileges required by WordPress to function properly, and explain how to set them up in cPanel.