Thread Starter
andypp
(@andypp)
I only reactivated Wordfence (a security plugin) just before posting the link to the article, but previous comments were posted with all plugins deactivated, including Wordfence.
My wp-config says:
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
Thanks for your help.
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This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by
andypp.
Do you have any security or optimization plugins installed that may be sanitizing input from non-authors on your site as an extra precaution?
Thread Starter
andypp
(@andypp)
Several tests were performed with no plugins active and emojis in comments are still not working.
Any idea?
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This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by andypp.
What is the charset on the _comments table?
You’ll be able to see that in phpMyAdmin, which you can find in your hosting account’s control panel.
That’s the problem, it needs to be utf8mb4, not just utf8.
A fresh WordPress installation today should have set that properly.
There are some steps to fix that at https://pento.net/2014/04/07/wordpress-and-utf-8/
But, do make a backup first: https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-backups/
Thread Starter
andypp
(@andypp)
Thank you for your help and for the links! It doesn’t sound like fun but I’ll try.
