@pfefferle Matthias! I'm incredibly grateful for all your amazing advice and quick help
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Elena Rossini βreplied to Matthias Pfefferle last edited by
@pfefferle PhpMyAdmin didn't help, so I'm about to manually change my wp-config.php file and see how things go.
Mind you Matthias I'm an artist, NOT a developer. About to take a big sip from my cup of coffee, pray and hope I don't break my site LOL (I do have access to file manager and I have a backup of the old file ready to be re-uploaded just in case). Living on the edge
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Elena Rossini βreplied to Matthias Pfefferle last edited by
@pfefferle P.S.: you'd appreciate that the AI support bot is very careful and keeps reminding me "Make sure to back up the file before making any changes."
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Matthias Pfefferlereplied to Elena Rossini β last edited by
@_elena OMG
good luck!
btw. this haven't worked out?
be aware that the change might not fix actual comments, but future ones!
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Elena Rossini βreplied to Matthias Pfefferle last edited by
@pfefferle ha! Thank you re: the clarification that it may not fix existing comments but future ones... I kept deleting the cache and checking from a browser in incognito mode, but nothing helped. This makes perfect sense. I'll publish a brand new comment from here and see how things go. THANK YOU AGAIN!
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Elena Rossini βreplied to Elena Rossini β last edited by
@pfefferle it finally worked and I didn't break anything - woohoo!!! π₯³ thank you again Matthias!!!!
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Matthias Pfefferlereplied to Elena Rossini β last edited by
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Aslak Raanesreplied to Elena Rossini β last edited by
@_elena @pfefferle But does a new installation of WordPress still default to utf8 https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/wp-config-php/#database-character-set ? Using wp-cli seems to do that https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/config/create/#:~:text=database%20charset.%0A%E2%80%94-,default%3A%20utf8,-%E2%80%94
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Matthias Pfefferlereplied to Aslak Raanes last edited by
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Aslak Raanesreplied to Matthias Pfefferle last edited by
@pfefferle @_elena Hm, the following:
wp core download
wp config create β¦
wp core install β¦creates a config with
DB_CHARSET='utf8'
but with database tables having `utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci`
Shouldnβt the DB_CHARSET be utf8mb4 or doesnβt it matter?
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Matthias Pfefferlereplied to Aslak Raanes last edited by