title: WordPress to begin learning Databases
body: <p>I am inspecting WordPress' <code>wp-config.php</code> file. I used this guide to help go through things a bit "A guided tour of wp-config.php."</p>
  
  <p>However, most of it was mostly just repeating the name of variables.</p>
  
  <p>These define statements let us use <code>define('DB_PASSWORD', 'somePass');</code>. </p>
  
  <p>What is this "method" actually doing?</p>
  
  <p>Bonus question. I have a password in that method; however, it is encrypted. Is that what the database is looking for or does it want the plaintext password? If so, where is the algorithm to decrypt that password?</p>