Recommended database charset and collation for WordPress

May 28, 2017

Charset: 

utf8mb4

Collation: 

utf8mb4_unicode_ci

Source: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/04/02/the-utf8mb4-upgrade/

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Submitted by Ben on 09/17/2018 - 11:31am

Thank you for the short and precise summary ^‿^

Submitted by Hafeesh Mohamed on 12/31/2018 - 1:22pm

Recommended database charset and collation for WordPress

Charset:

utf8mb4
Collation:

utf8mb4_unicode_ci

Above is suitable for woocommerce

Submitted by Steve on 05/16/2019 - 11:40am

Thank you! Someone that just tells you without endless paragraphs of preceding waffle!

Submitted by x on 02/10/2020 - 6:51pm

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