September 11, 2009

Weird characters after Wordpress upgrade

September 11th 2009 Posted to Geekery, wordpress

I’ve just upgraded a few wordpress sites, and it all went well, except for the fact that it didn’t. This site was easy and quick – I’m impressed with how polished the wordpress experience is. I uploaded the new files, visited wp-admin, and wordpress did it’s thing. Sweet! Changed the theme, realised it didn’t support widgets, so added some code which let it do so, and voila. Done.

Then I did the same for a client’s site, except once the whole upgrade was done, her site was full of characters like

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  1. Bangaloreloka
    December 24th, 2009 | 5:26 pm

    Did u find the solution for it? I can help you.. just replaced wpconfig DB charset and collate with these lines (you are deactivating them..)

    //define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
    //define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

  2. Roger Saner
    January 4th, 2010 | 2:09 pm

    That’s odd, seems like this blog somehow lost my solution. I used the bbWP2UTF8 plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbwp2utf8/ which basically automatically executes the steps from http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets/

  3. Roger Saner
    January 29th, 2010 | 4:17 pm

    I did, thanks, but wordpress somehow lost my whole post. *sigh*

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